• 文献标题:   Evidence for unconventional superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   OH M, NUCKOLLS KP, WONG D, LEE RL, LIU XM, WATANABE K, TANIGUCHI T, YAZDANI A
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  • 出版物名称:   NATURE
  • ISSN:   0028-0836 EI 1476-4687
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  • 被引频次:   62
  • DOI:   10.1038/s41586-021-04121-x EA OCT 2021
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

The emergence of superconductivity and correlated insulators in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) has raised the intriguing possibility that its pairing mechanism is distinct from that of conventional superconductors(1-4), as described by the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theory. However, recent studies have shown that superconductivity persists even when Coulomb interactions are partially screened(5,6). This suggests that pairing in MATBG might be conventional in nature and a consequence of the large density of states of its flat bands. Here we combine tunnelling and Andreev reflection spectroscopy with a scanning tunnelling microscope to observe several key experimental signatures of unconventional superconductivity in MATBG. We show that the tunnelling spectra below the transition temperature T-c are inconsistent with those of a conventional s-wave superconductor, but rather resemble those of a nodal superconductor with an anisotropic pairing mechanism. We observe a large discrepancy between the tunnelling gap Delta(T), which far exceeds the mean-field BCS ratio (with 2 Delta(T)/k(B)T(c) similar to 25), and the gap Delta(AR) extracted from Andreev reflection spectroscopy (2 Delta(AR)/k(B)T(c) similar to 6). The tunnelling gap persists even when superconductivity is suppressed, indicating its emergence from a pseudogap phase. Moreover, the pseudogap and superconductivity are both absent when MATBG is aligned with hexagonal boron nitride. These findings and other observations reported here provide a preponderance of evidence for a non-BCS mechanism for superconductivity in MATBG.