Inducing superconducting correlations in chiral edge states is predicted to generate topologically protected zero energy modes with exotic quantum statistics. Experimental efforts so far have focused on engineering interfaces between superconducting materials-typically amorphous metals-and semiconducting quantum Hall or quantum anomalous Hall systems. However, the strong interfacial disorder inherent in this approach can prevent the formation of isolated topological modes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn conventional superconductors, Cooper pairing occurs between electrons of opposite spin. We observe spin-polarized superconductivity in Bernal bilayer graphene when doped to a saddle-point van Hove singularity generated by large applied perpendicular electric field. We observe a cascade of electrostatic gate-tuned transitions between electronic phases distinguished by their polarization within the isospin space defined by the combination of the spin and momentum-space valley degrees of freedom.
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