Tunneling spectroscopy of two-dimensional superconductors with the quantum twisting microscope
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Abstract
The ongoing discoveries of graphene-based superconductors underscore the quest to understand the structure of new superconducting orders. We develop a theory that facilitates the use of the quantum twisting microscope (QTM) for that purpose. This work investigates momentum-conserving tunneling across a planar junction formed by a normal monolayer graphene tip and a superconducting graphene sample within the QTM setting. We show that the bias dependence of the zero-temperature tunneling conductance exhibits singularities that provide momentum-resolved information about the Bogoliubov quasiparticle spectra, including the superconducting gap. Using a model of superconducting twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), we illustrate that simultaneously tuning the tip doping level and the tip-sample twist angle allows for measuring the momentum-resolved superconducting gap in TBG. Our results indicate that momentum conserving tunneling spectroscopy with the QTM is a promising method for exploring superconductivity in two-dimensional van der Waals materials.
*Research at Yale was supported by NSF Grant No. DMR-2410182 and by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) under Award No. N00014-22-1-2764. Research at Freie Universität Berlin and Yale was supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemein schaft through CRC 183 (project C02 and a Mercator Fellowship). Research at Freie Universität Berlin was further supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft through a joint ANR-DFG project (TWISTGRAPH).
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Publication: arXiv:2509.22902
Presenters
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Nemin Wei
- Yale University