Zero-field superconducting diode effect in small-twist-angle trilayer graphene
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| author | Lin, Jiang-Xiazi Siriviboon, Phum Scammell, Harley D. Liu, Song Rhodes, Daniel Watanabe, K. Taniguchi, T. Hone, James Scheurer, Mathias S. Li, J. I. A. |
| author_facet | Lin, Jiang-Xiazi Siriviboon, Phum Scammell, Harley D. Liu, Song Rhodes, Daniel Watanabe, K. Taniguchi, T. Hone, James Scheurer, Mathias S. Li, J. I. A. |
| contents | The critical current of a superconductor can be different for opposite directions of current flow when both time-reversal and inversion symmetry are broken. %When time-reversal and inversion symmetry are simultaneously broken, the critical current of a 2D superconductor is expected to depend on the directions of current flow. Such nonreciprocal behavior in superconducting transport, which creates a superconducting diode, has recently been demonstrated experimentally by breaking these symmetries with an applied magnetic field \cite{Ando2020diodes} or by construction of a magnetic tunnel junction \cite{Diez2021magnetic}. Here we report an intrinsic superconducting diode effect which is present at zero external magnetic field in mirror symmetric twisted trilayer graphene (tTLG). Such nonreciprocal behavior, with sign that can be reversed through training with an out-of-plane magnetic field, provides direct evidence of the microscopic coexistence between superconductivity and time-reversal symmetry breaking. In addition to the magnetic-field trainability, we show that the zero-field diode effect can be controlled by varying carrier density or twist angle. In accordance with these experimental controls, a natural interpretation for the origin of the intrinsic diode effect is an imbalance in valley occupation of the underlying Fermi surface, which likely leads to finite-momentum Cooper pairing and nematicity in the superconducting phase. |
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| spellingShingle | Zero-field superconducting diode effect in small-twist-angle trilayer graphene Lin, Jiang-Xiazi Siriviboon, Phum Scammell, Harley D. Liu, Song Rhodes, Daniel Watanabe, K. Taniguchi, T. Hone, James Scheurer, Mathias S. Li, J. I. A. Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Strongly Correlated Electrons Superconductivity The critical current of a superconductor can be different for opposite directions of current flow when both time-reversal and inversion symmetry are broken. %When time-reversal and inversion symmetry are simultaneously broken, the critical current of a 2D superconductor is expected to depend on the directions of current flow. Such nonreciprocal behavior in superconducting transport, which creates a superconducting diode, has recently been demonstrated experimentally by breaking these symmetries with an applied magnetic field \cite{Ando2020diodes} or by construction of a magnetic tunnel junction \cite{Diez2021magnetic}. Here we report an intrinsic superconducting diode effect which is present at zero external magnetic field in mirror symmetric twisted trilayer graphene (tTLG). Such nonreciprocal behavior, with sign that can be reversed through training with an out-of-plane magnetic field, provides direct evidence of the microscopic coexistence between superconductivity and time-reversal symmetry breaking. In addition to the magnetic-field trainability, we show that the zero-field diode effect can be controlled by varying carrier density or twist angle. In accordance with these experimental controls, a natural interpretation for the origin of the intrinsic diode effect is an imbalance in valley occupation of the underlying Fermi surface, which likely leads to finite-momentum Cooper pairing and nematicity in the superconducting phase. |
| title | Zero-field superconducting diode effect in small-twist-angle trilayer graphene |
| topic | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Strongly Correlated Electrons Superconductivity |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.07841 |