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NATURE
Volume 574, Issue 7780, Pages 653-+Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1695-0
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- Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of Spain [SE5-0522]
- Fundacio Privada Cellex
- Fundacio Privada Mir-Puig
- Generalitat de Catalunya
- H2020 Programme [820378]
- La Caixa Foundation
- Department of Energy [DE-FG02-02ER45958]
- Welch Foundation [TBF1473]
- MICINN [RTI2018-097953-B-I00]
- National Science Foundation of China [11834017, 61888102]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB30000000]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-FG02-02ER45958] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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Superconductivity can occur under conditions approaching broken-symmetry parent states(1). In bilayer graphene, the twisting of one layer with respect to the other at 'magic' twist angles of around 1 degree leads to the emergence of ultra-flat moire superlattice minibands. Such bands are a rich and highly tunable source of strong-correlation physics(2-5), notably superconductivity, which emerges close to interaction-induced insulating states(6,7). Here we report the fabrication of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene devices with highly uniform twist angles. The reduction in twist-angle disorder reveals the presence of insulating states at all integer occupancies of the fourfold spin-valley degenerate flat conduction and valence bands-that is, at moire band filling factors nu = 0, +/- 1, +/- 2, +/- 3. At nu approximate to -2, superconductivity is observed below critical temperatures of up to 3 kelvin. We also observe three new superconducting domes at much lower temperatures, close to the nu = 0 and. = +/- 1 insulating states. Notably, at nu = +/- 1 we find states with non-zero Chern numbers. For nu = -1 the insulating state exhibits a sharp hysteretic resistance enhancement when a perpendicular magnetic field greater than 3.6 tesla is applied, which is consistent with a field-driven phase transition. Our study shows that broken-symmetry states, interaction-driven insulators, orbital magnets, states with non-zero Chern numbers and superconducting domes occur frequently across a wide range of moire flat band fillings, including close to charge neutrality. This study provides a more detailed view of the phenomenology of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene, adding to our evolving understanding of its emergent properties.
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