Magic of high-order van Hove singularity

Noah F. Q. Yuan; Hiroki Isobe; Liang Fu

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-13670-9

Nature Communications (Dec 2019)

Magic of high-order van Hove singularity

Noah F. Q. Yuan,
Hiroki Isobe,
Liang Fu

Affiliations

Noah F. Q. Yuan: Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hiroki Isobe: Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Liang Fu: Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13670-9
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Correlation effect is essential to stabilize exotic phases such as superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene. Here, Yuan et al. predict significantly enhanced electron correlation effects due to an emergent high-order van Hove singularity in a two dimensional moiré superlattice.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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