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Evidence for unconventional superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene
Nature ( IF 50.5 ) Pub Date : 2021-10-20 , DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04121-x
Myungchul Oh 1 , Kevin P Nuckolls 1 , Dillon Wong 1 , Ryan L Lee 1 , Xiaomeng Liu 1 , Kenji Watanabe 2 , Takashi Taniguchi 3 , Ali Yazdani 1
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The emergence of superconductivity and correlated insulators in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) has raised the intriguing possibility that its pairing mechanism is distinct from that of conventional superconductors1,2,3,4, as described by the Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer (BCS) theory. However, recent studies have shown that superconductivity persists even when Coulomb interactions are partially screened5,6. This suggests that pairing in MATBG might be conventional in nature and a consequence of the large density of states of its flat bands. Here we combine tunnelling and Andreev reflection spectroscopy with a scanning tunnelling microscope to observe several key experimental signatures of unconventional superconductivity in MATBG. We show that the tunnelling spectra below the transition temperature Tc are inconsistent with those of a conventional s-wave superconductor, but rather resemble those of a nodal superconductor with an anisotropic pairing mechanism. We observe a large discrepancy between the tunnelling gap ΔT, which far exceeds the mean-field BCS ratio (with 2ΔT/kBTc ~ 25), and the gap ΔAR extracted from Andreev reflection spectroscopy (2ΔAR/kBTc ~ 6). The tunnelling gap persists even when superconductivity is suppressed, indicating its emergence from a pseudogap phase. Moreover, the pseudogap and superconductivity are both absent when MATBG is aligned with hexagonal boron nitride. These findings and other observations reported here provide a preponderance of evidence for a non-BCS mechanism for superconductivity in MATBG.



中文翻译:

扭曲双层石墨烯中非常规超导性的证据

魔角扭曲双层石墨烯 (MATBG) 中超导性和相关绝缘体的出现提出了一种有趣的可能性,即它的配对机制不同于传统超导体1,2,3,4,正如 Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer 所描述的(BCS) 理论。然而,最近的研究表明,即使库仑相互作用被部分屏蔽,超导性仍然存在5,6. 这表明 MATBG 中的配对在本质上可能是常规的,并且是其平带状态密度大的结果。在这里,我们将隧道和 Andreev 反射光谱与扫描隧道显微镜相结合,以观察 MATBG 中非常规超导性的几个关键实验特征。我们表明低于转变温度Tc的隧道谱与传统s波超导体的隧道谱不一致,而是类似于具有各向异性配对机制的节点超导体的隧道谱。我们观察到隧道间隙Δ T之间存在很大差异,它远远超过平均场 BCS 比率(2 Δ T / kB T c  ~ 25),以及从 Andreev 反射光谱中提取的间隙Δ AR (2 Δ AR / k B T c  ~ 6)。即使超导性受到抑制,隧道间隙仍然存在,表明它是从赝能隙阶段出现的。此外,当 MATBG 与六方氮化硼对齐时,赝能隙和超导性都不存在。这些发现和此处报告的其他观察结果为 MATBG 中超导性的非 BCS 机制提供了优势证据。

更新日期:2021-10-20
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