Publications by authors named "D Rodan-Legrain"

Electronic states in quasicrystals generally preclude a Bloch description, rendering them fascinating and enigmatic. Owing to their complexity and scarcity, quasicrystals are underexplored relative to periodic and amorphous structures. Here we introduce a new type of highly tunable quasicrystal easily assembled from periodic components.

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Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) has recently emerged as a highly tunable two-dimensional material platform exhibiting a wide range of phases, such as metal, insulator and superconductor states. Local electrostatic control over these phases may enable the creation of versatile quantum devices that were previously not achievable in other single-material platforms. Here we engineer Josephson junctions and tunnelling transistors in MATBG, solely defined by electrostatic gates.

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Article Synopsis
  • Strongly interacting electrons in solid-state systems can show multiple broken symmetries, leading to complex phase diagrams, particularly evident in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG).
  • Research reveals an anisotropic phase in TBG that appears above the underdoped region of the superconducting dome, where its intersection with the dome correlates with a drop in critical temperature.
  • The superconducting state in TBG demonstrates direction-dependent responses to magnetic fields, suggesting that nematic ordering and fluctuations are significant in the behavior of its low-temperature phases.
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In the 1950s, Pomeranchuk predicted that, counterintuitively, liquid He may solidify on heating. This effect arises owing to high excess nuclear spin entropy in the solid phase, where the atoms are spatially localized. Here we find that an analogous effect occurs in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene.

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