Stacking-Order And Quasiperiodic Superconductivity
Engineering the symmetry and local atomic order of a crystal — polytype stacking that breaks inversion, or quasicrystal-approximant motifs — as a knob to create unconventional superconducting states.
Developed mainly in: China, Japan and United StatesImpacting: North America, China, Rest of Asia and Europe
Researchers from the University of Washington, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, UBC and NIMS mapped gate-tuned phases in rhombohedral graphene stacked on WSe2. They found isolated pockets showing true zero resistance alongside pockets where resistance saturates at a finite value, an 'anomalous metal' state. Small in-plane magnetic fields merged these pockets, producing a sharp millikelvin boundary b…
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- Rhombohedral graphene on tungsten diselenide shows coexisting superconducting and anomalous metal states
Impact · 15 Oct 2026
- Bulk superconductivity observed in quasicrystal-like 2/1 approximant crystal
Link · 6 Oct 2026
- Superconductivity reported in rhombohedral stacked NbSe2 lacking inversion symmetry
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