Electron-phonon superconductivity and Landau levels in twisted bilayer graphene

ORAL

Abstract

In the first half of the presentation, we show the analytical calculation of the electron-phonon coupling in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), which was recently experimentally observed to exhibit superconductivity around the magic twist angle $\theta\approx 1.05^\circ$. We show that phonon-mediated electron electron attraction at the magic angle is strong enough to induce a conventional intervalley pairing between graphene valleys $K$ and $K'$ with a superconducting critical temperature $T_c\sim1K$, in agreement with the experiment. In the second half of the talk, we show the existence of topological Landau levels at large magnetic fields due to nontrivial topology of the flat bands.

*We acknowledge the support of Princeton Center for Theoretical Science at Princeton University, the Department of Energy Grant No. de-sc0016239, the National Science Foundation EAGER Grant No. noaawd1004957, Simons Investigator Grants No. ONRN00014-14-1-0330, No. ARO MURI W911NF-12-1-0461, and No. NSF-MRSEC DMR- 1420541, the Packard Foundation, the Schmidt Fund for Innovative Research.

Presenters

  • Biao Lian

    • Princeton University

Authors

  • Biao Lian

    • Princeton University
  • Zhijun Wang

    • Princeton University
    • Physics, Princeton University
  • Fang Xie

    • Princeton University
  • Andrei B Bernevig

    • Princeton University
    • Physics, Princeton University
    • Department of Physics, Princeton University