Highly crystalline 2D superconductors

Y Saito, T Nojima, Y Iwasa - Nature Reviews Materials, 2016 - nature.com
Recent advances in materials fabrication have enabled the manufacturing of ordered 2D
electron systems, such as heterogeneous interfaces, atomic layers grown by molecular …

Quantum breakdown of superconductivity in low-dimensional materials

B Sacépé, M Feigel'man, TM Klapwijk - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
In order to understand the emergence of superconductivity it is useful to study the reverse
process and identify the various pathways that lead to its destruction. One way is to increase …

High-temperature superconductivity in monolayer Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ

Y Yu, L Ma, P Cai, R Zhong, C Ye, J Shen, GD Gu… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Although copper oxide high-temperature superconductors constitute a complex and diverse
material family, they all share a layered lattice structure. This curious fact prompts the …

Tuning electron correlation in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene using Coulomb screening

X Liu, Z Wang, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi, O Vafek… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Controlling the strength of interactions is essential for studying quantum phenomena
emerging in systems of correlated fermions. We introduce a device geometry whereby magic …

Controlling many-body states by the electric-field effect in a two-dimensional material

LJ Li, ECT O'farrell, KP Loh, G Eda, B Özyilmaz… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
To understand the complex physics of a system with strong electron–electron interactions,
the ideal is to control and monitor its properties while tuning an external electric field applied …

Electric field control of superconductivity at the LaAlO3/KTaO3(111) interface

Z Chen, Y Liu, H Zhang, Z Liu, H Tian, Y Sun, M Zhang… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The oxide interface between LaAlO3 and KTaO3 (111) can harbor a superconducting state.
We report that by applying a gate voltage (VG) across KTaO3, the interface can be …

Quantum phase transitions

S Sachdev - Physics world, 1999 - iopscience.iop.org
NATURE abounds with phase transitions. The boiling and freezing of water are everyday
examples of phase transitions, as are more exotic processes such as superconductivity and …

Nature of the quantum metal in a two-dimensional crystalline superconductor

AW Tsen, B Hunt, YD Kim, ZJ Yuan, S Jia, RJ Cava… - Nature Physics, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) materials are not expected to be metals at low temperature
owing to electron localization. Consistent with this, pioneering studies on thin films reported …

Metallic ground state in an ion-gated two-dimensional superconductor

Y Saito, Y Kasahara, J Ye, Y Iwasa, T Nojima - Science, 2015 - science.org
Recently emerging two-dimensional (2D) superconductors in atomically thin layers and at
heterogeneous interfaces are attracting growing interest in condensed matter physics. Here …

Colloquium: Anomalous metals: Failed superconductors

A Kapitulnik, SA Kivelson, B Spivak - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2019 - APS
The observation of metallic ground states in a variety of two-dimensional electronic systems
poses a fundamental challenge for the theory of electron fluids. Here evidence is analyzed …