Magnetic-Field-Driven Insulator-Superconductor Transition in Rhombohedral Graphene
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| author | Xie, Jian Huo, Zihao Chen, Zhimou Zhang, Zaizhe Watanabe, Kenji Taniguchi, Takashi Lin, Xi Lu, Xiaobo |
| author_facet | Xie, Jian Huo, Zihao Chen, Zhimou Zhang, Zaizhe Watanabe, Kenji Taniguchi, Takashi Lin, Xi Lu, Xiaobo |
| contents | Recent studies of rhombohedral multilayer graphene (RMG) have revealed a variety of superconducting states that can be induced or enhanced by magnetic fields, reinforcing RMG as a powerful platform for investigating novel superconductivity. Here we report an insulator-superconductor transition driven by in-plane magnetic fields B|| in rhombohedral hexalayer graphene. The upper critical in-plane field of 2T violates the Pauli limit, and an analysis based on isospin symmetry breaking supports a spin-polarized superconductor. At in-plane B = 0, such spin-polarized superconductor transitions into an insulator, exhibiting a thermally activated gap of 0.1 meV. In addition, we observe four superconducting states in the hole-doped regime, as well as phases with orbital multiferroicity near charge neutrality point. These findings substantially enrich the phase diagram of rhombohedral graphene and provide new insight into the microscopic mechanisms of superconductivity |
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| spellingShingle | Magnetic-Field-Driven Insulator-Superconductor Transition in Rhombohedral Graphene Xie, Jian Huo, Zihao Chen, Zhimou Zhang, Zaizhe Watanabe, Kenji Taniguchi, Takashi Lin, Xi Lu, Xiaobo Superconductivity Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Recent studies of rhombohedral multilayer graphene (RMG) have revealed a variety of superconducting states that can be induced or enhanced by magnetic fields, reinforcing RMG as a powerful platform for investigating novel superconductivity. Here we report an insulator-superconductor transition driven by in-plane magnetic fields B|| in rhombohedral hexalayer graphene. The upper critical in-plane field of 2T violates the Pauli limit, and an analysis based on isospin symmetry breaking supports a spin-polarized superconductor. At in-plane B = 0, such spin-polarized superconductor transitions into an insulator, exhibiting a thermally activated gap of 0.1 meV. In addition, we observe four superconducting states in the hole-doped regime, as well as phases with orbital multiferroicity near charge neutrality point. These findings substantially enrich the phase diagram of rhombohedral graphene and provide new insight into the microscopic mechanisms of superconductivity |
| title | Magnetic-Field-Driven Insulator-Superconductor Transition in Rhombohedral Graphene |
| topic | Superconductivity Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24306 |