Magnetic Field-Enhanced Graphene Superconductivity with Record Pauli-Limit Violation

Oral-In-person

Abstract

Spin-polarized superconductors offer a rare platform for studying electronic correlations and potentially host non-Abelian quasi-particles, but few candidate systems have been experimentally confirmed to date. Here, we report the observation of a spin-polarized superconducting state, denoted SC5, in WSe2-proximitized rhombohedral trilayer graphene. At in-plane magnetic field B|| = 0 T, SC5 has a critical temperature of 68 mK and an out-of-plane critical magnetic field of only 12 mT. Surprisingly, these values are significantly enhanced as B|| increases, and the superconductivity persists to B|| = 8.8 T. This value corresponds to a record-high Pauli-limit violation ratio (PVR) of at least 80 among all superconductors, while the true critical field is beyond the limit of our instrument. We conclude that SC5 experiences a canting crossover from Ising-type to spin-polarized superconductor with increased B||.

Publication: arXiv:2510.10873

Presenters

  • Jixiang Yang

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Authors

  • Jixiang Yang

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Omid Sedeh

  • Chiho Yoon

    • University of Texas at Dallas
  • Shenyong Ye

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Henok Weldeyesus

    • University of Basel
  • Armel Cotten

  • Tonghang Han

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Zhengguang Lu

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Zach Hadjri

  • Junseok Seo

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Lihan Shi

  • Emily Aitken

  • Prayoga Liong

  • Zhenghan Wu

  • Mingchi Xu

  • Christian Scheller

    • University of Basel
  • Mingyang Zheng

    • University of Florida
  • Rasul Gazizulin

    • University of Florida
  • Dominique Laroche

    • University of Florida
  • Mingda Li

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Fan Zhang

    • University of Texas at Dallas
  • Dominik Zumbuhl

    • University of Basel
  • Long Ju

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology