Superconductivity and strong interactions in a tunable moiré quasicrystal.


Journal

Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Aug 2023
Historique:
received: 02 02 2023
accepted: 07 06 2023
medline: 25 8 2023
pubmed: 20 7 2023
entrez: 19 7 2023
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Electronic states in quasicrystals generally preclude a Bloch description

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pubmed: 37468640
doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06294-z
pii: 10.1038/s41586-023-06294-z
doi:

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Journal Article

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eng

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IM

Pagination

762-767

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© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.

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Auteurs

Aviram Uri (A)

Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. aviramu@mit.edu.

Sergio C de la Barrera (SC)

Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. sdlb@mit.edu.

Mallika T Randeria (MT)

Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Daniel Rodan-Legrain (D)

Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Trithep Devakul (T)

Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Philip J D Crowley (PJD)

Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Nisarga Paul (N)

Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Kenji Watanabe (K)

Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan.

Takashi Taniguchi (T)

International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan.

Ron Lifshitz (R)

Raymond & Beverly Sackler School of Physics & Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Liang Fu (L)

Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Raymond C Ashoori (RC)

Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (P)

Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. pjarillo@mit.edu.

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