ツイストグラフェンが示す異常超伝導(Twisted graphene reveals exotic superconductivity)

2025-10-01 スイス連邦工科大学ローザンヌ校(EPFL)

EPFLの研究チームは、三層の「マジック角ねじれグラフェン(MATTG)」において、超伝導が二つの「ドーム」として現れる珍しいパターンを直接観測し、電場によって制御することに成功した。実験では、電子密度や電場を精密に操作することで、超伝導が出現・消失する領域を描き出し、二つのドーム間で異なる電子ペアリング機構が働く可能性を示した。これは、非従来型超伝導の理解を深め、量子デバイス設計や新物質状態の探索に道を開く成果である。

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ねじれ三層グラフェンにおけるゲート制御可能なダブルドーム超伝導 Gate-tunable double-dome superconductivity in twisted trilayer graphene

Zekang Zhou,Jin Jiang,Paritosh Karnatak,Ziwei Wang,Glenn Wagner,Kenji Watanabe,Takashi Taniguchi,Christian Schönenberger,S. A. Parameswaran,Steven H. Simon & Mitali Banerjee
Nature Physics  Published:30 September 2025
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-025-03040-2

ツイストグラフェンが示す異常超伝導(Twisted graphene reveals exotic superconductivity)

Abstract

Graphene moiré systems are ideal environments for investigating complex phase diagrams and gaining fundamental insights into the mechanisms that underlie them, as they permit controlled manipulation of electronic properties. Magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene has emerged as a key platform for exploring moiré superconductivity due to the robustness of its superconducting order and the ability to tune its energy bands with an electric field. Here we report the direct observation of two domes of superconductivity in the phase diagram of magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene. The dependence of the superconductivity of doped holes on the temperature, magnetic field and bias current shows that it is suppressed near a specific filling of the moiré flat band, leading to a double dome in the phase diagram within a finite range of the displacement field. The transport properties are also indicative of a phase transition and the potentially distinct nature of superconductivity in the two domes. Hartree–Fock calculations incorporating mild strain yield an incommensurate Kekulé spiral state whose effective spin polarization peaks in the regime where superconductivity is suppressed in the experiments.

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