Charged skyrmions and topological origin of superconductivity in magic-angle graphene.


Journal

Science advances
ISSN: 2375-2548
Titre abrégé: Sci Adv
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101653440

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
May 2021
Historique:
received: 02 11 2020
accepted: 15 03 2021
entrez: 6 5 2021
pubmed: 7 5 2021
medline: 7 5 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Topological solitons, a class of stable nonlinear excitations, appear in diverse domains as in the Skyrme model of nuclear forces. Here, we argue that similar excitations play an important role in a remarkable material obtained on stacking and twisting two sheets of graphene. Close to a magic twist angle, insulating behavior is observed, which gives way to superconductivity on doping. Here, we propose a unifying description of both observations. A symmetry breaking condensate leads to the ordered insulator, while topological solitons in the condensate-skyrmions-are shown to be charge 2

Identifiants

pubmed: 33952523
pii: 7/19/eabf5299
doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abf5299
pmc: PMC8099185
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

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Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2021 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC).

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Auteurs

Eslam Khalaf (E)

Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

Shubhayu Chatterjee (S)

Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

Nick Bultinck (N)

Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Department of Physics, Ghent university, 9000 Gent, Belgium.

Michael P Zaletel (MP)

Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

Ashvin Vishwanath (A)

Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. avishwanath@g.harvard.edu.

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