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 …

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 …

Independent superconductors and correlated insulators in twisted bilayer graphene

Y Saito, J Ge, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi, AF Young - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
When two sheets of graphene are stacked on top of each other with a small twist of angle
θ≈ 1.1° between them, theory predicts the formation of a flat electronic band,. Experiments …

Two-dimensional superconductivity and anisotropic transport at KTaO3 (111) interfaces

C Liu, X Yan, D **, Y Ma, HW Hsiao, Y Lin… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The distinctive electronic structure found at interfaces between materials can allow
unconventional quantum states to emerge. Here we report on the discovery of …

Twisted bilayer graphene: a phonon-driven superconductor

B Lian, Z Wang, BA Bernevig - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
We study the electron-phonon coupling in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), which was
recently experimentally observed to exhibit superconductivity around the magic twist angle …

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 …

Quality heterostructures from two-dimensional crystals unstable in air by their assembly in inert atmosphere

Y Cao, A Mishchenko, GL Yu, E Khestanova… - Nano …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Many layered materials can be cleaved down to individual atomic planes, similar to
graphene, but only a small minority of them are stable under ambient conditions. The rest …

Enhanced superconductivity in atomically thin TaS2

E Navarro-Moratalla, JO Island, S Manas-Valero… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The ability to exfoliate layered materials down to the single layer limit has presented the
opportunity to understand how a gradual reduction in dimensionality affects the properties of …

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 …