Resolving Intervalley Gaps and Many-Body Resonances in Moiré Superconductor
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| author | Kim, Hyunjin Rai, Gautam Crippa, Lorenzo Călugăru, Dumitru Hu, Haoyu Choi, Youngjoon Kong, Lingyuan Baum, Eli Zhang, Yiran Holleis, Ludwig Watanabe, Kenji Taniguchi, Takashi Young, Andrea F. Bernevig, B. Andrei Valentí, Roser Sangiovanni, Giorgio Wehling, Tim Nadj-Perge, Stevan |
| author_facet | Kim, Hyunjin Rai, Gautam Crippa, Lorenzo Călugăru, Dumitru Hu, Haoyu Choi, Youngjoon Kong, Lingyuan Baum, Eli Zhang, Yiran Holleis, Ludwig Watanabe, Kenji Taniguchi, Takashi Young, Andrea F. Bernevig, B. Andrei Valentí, Roser Sangiovanni, Giorgio Wehling, Tim Nadj-Perge, Stevan |
| contents | Magic-angle twisted multilayer graphene stands out as a highly tunable class of moiré materials that exhibit strong electronic correlations and robust superconductivity. However, understanding the relations between the low-temperature superconducting phase and the preceding correlated phases established at higher temperatures remains a challenge. Here, we employ scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy to track the formation sequence of correlated phases established by the interplay of dynamic correlations, intervalley coherence, and superconductivity in magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene (MATTG). We discover the existence of two well-resolved gaps pinned at the Fermi level within the superconducting doping range. While the outer gap, previously associated with pseudogap phase, persists at high temperatures and magnetic fields, the newly revealed inner gap is more fragile in line with superconductivity MATTG transport experiments. Andreev reflection spectroscopy taken at the same location confirms a clear trend that closely follows the doping behaviour of the inner gap, and not the outer one. Moreover, spectroscopy taken at nanoscale domain boundaries further corroborates the contrasting behavior of the two gaps, with the inner gap remaining resilient to structural variations, as expected from the finite superconducting coherence length. By comparing our findings with recent topological heavy-fermion models, we identify that the outer gap originates from the splitting of the Abrikosov-Suhl-Kondo resonance due to the breaking of the valley symmetry arising from correlation-driven effects. Our results suggest an intricate but tractable hierarchy of correlated phases in twisted multilayer graphene. |
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| spellingShingle | Resolving Intervalley Gaps and Many-Body Resonances in Moiré Superconductor Kim, Hyunjin Rai, Gautam Crippa, Lorenzo Călugăru, Dumitru Hu, Haoyu Choi, Youngjoon Kong, Lingyuan Baum, Eli Zhang, Yiran Holleis, Ludwig Watanabe, Kenji Taniguchi, Takashi Young, Andrea F. Bernevig, B. Andrei Valentí, Roser Sangiovanni, Giorgio Wehling, Tim Nadj-Perge, Stevan Superconductivity Strongly Correlated Electrons Magic-angle twisted multilayer graphene stands out as a highly tunable class of moiré materials that exhibit strong electronic correlations and robust superconductivity. However, understanding the relations between the low-temperature superconducting phase and the preceding correlated phases established at higher temperatures remains a challenge. Here, we employ scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy to track the formation sequence of correlated phases established by the interplay of dynamic correlations, intervalley coherence, and superconductivity in magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene (MATTG). We discover the existence of two well-resolved gaps pinned at the Fermi level within the superconducting doping range. While the outer gap, previously associated with pseudogap phase, persists at high temperatures and magnetic fields, the newly revealed inner gap is more fragile in line with superconductivity MATTG transport experiments. Andreev reflection spectroscopy taken at the same location confirms a clear trend that closely follows the doping behaviour of the inner gap, and not the outer one. Moreover, spectroscopy taken at nanoscale domain boundaries further corroborates the contrasting behavior of the two gaps, with the inner gap remaining resilient to structural variations, as expected from the finite superconducting coherence length. By comparing our findings with recent topological heavy-fermion models, we identify that the outer gap originates from the splitting of the Abrikosov-Suhl-Kondo resonance due to the breaking of the valley symmetry arising from correlation-driven effects. Our results suggest an intricate but tractable hierarchy of correlated phases in twisted multilayer graphene. |
| title | Resolving Intervalley Gaps and Many-Body Resonances in Moiré Superconductor |
| topic | Superconductivity Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17200 |