Superconductivity, superfluidity and quantum geometry in twisted multilayer systems

P Törmä, S Peotta, BA Bernevig - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Superconductivity has been observed in moiré systems such as twisted bilayer graphene,
which host flat, dispersionless electronic bands. In parallel, theory work has discovered that …

Towards properties on demand in quantum materials

DN Basov, RD Averitt, D Hsieh - Nature materials, 2017 - nature.com
The past decade has witnessed an explosion in the field of quantum materials, headlined by
the predictions and discoveries of novel Landau-symmetry-broken phases in correlated …

Topology-bounded superfluid weight in twisted bilayer graphene

F **e, Z Song, B Lian, BA Bernevig - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
While regular flat bands are good for enhancing the density of states and hence the gap,
they are detrimental to the superfluid weight. We show that the predicted nontrivial topology …

Theory of universal incoherent metallic transport

SA Hartnoll - Nature Physics, 2015 - nature.com
The anomalous transport of important materials such as high-temperature superconductors
and other 'bad metals' is not well understood theoretically. In an incoherent metal, transport …

Pairing mechanism in Fe-based superconductors

A Chubukov - Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys., 2012 - annualreviews.org
I review recent works on the symmetry and the structure of the superconducting gap in Fe-
based superconductors (FeSCs) and on the underlying pairing mechanism in these …

[PDF][PDF] The high energy density scientific instrument at the European XFEL

U Zastrau, K Appel, C Baehtz, O Baehr… - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.iucr.org
The European XFEL delivers up to 27000 intense (> 1012 photons) pulses per second, of
ultrashort (≤ 50 fs) and transversely coherent X-ray radiation, at a maximum repetition rate …

Spin-orbit-induced topological flat bands in line and split graphs of bipartite lattices

DS Ma, Y Xu, CS Chiu, N Regnault, AA Houck, Z Song… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
Topological flat bands, such as the band in twisted bilayer graphene, are becoming a
promising platform to study topics such as correlation physics, superconductivity, and …

Visualization of electron nematicity and unidirectional antiferroic fluctuations at high temperatures in NaFeAs

EP Rosenthal, EF Andrade, CJ Arguello… - Nature physics, 2014 - nature.com
Superconductivity in the iron pnictides is often closely connected to a nematic state in which
the tetragonal symmetry of the crystal is spontaneously broken. Determining the dominant …

Iron-based superconductors, seven years later

A Chubukov, PJ Hirschfeld - Physics today, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Discovery of the new materials raised researchers' hopes of solving the riddle of high-
temperature superconductivity. But the unexpectedly diverse systems turned out to possess …

Manifestations of nematic degrees of freedom in the magnetic, elastic, and superconducting properties of the iron pnictides

RM Fernandes, J Schmalian - Superconductor Science and …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate how emergent nematic order and nematic fluctuations affect several
macroscopic properties of both the normal and superconducting states of the iron pnictides …