journal article·2012-12-01Open access

Intrinsic superconductivity in ABA-stacked trilayer graphene

Haiwen Liu, Hua Jiang, X. C. Xie

AIP Advances· Volume 2· Issue 4

Abstract

We study the phonon-mediated superconductivity in light doped ABA-stacked trilayer graphene system by means of two theoretical models. We find superconducting transition temperature TC can be greatly enlarged by tuning the Fermi energy away from neutral point. Utilizing realistic parameters, we find Tc is approximately 1 K even under weak doping condition EF = 0.1 eV. Specifically, we give out the analytical expression for superconductivity gap △ and superconducting transition temperature Tc for negative-U Hubbard model. Further, we consider the thermal fluctuation and calculate the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless critical temperature TBKT. Besides, we consider a two-band BCS model in comparision with the negative-U Hubbard model. The results for both models are qualitatively consistent. Our study provides a promising possibility for realizing intrinsic superconductivity in multilayer graphene systems.
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Research context

OpenAlex topics: Graphene research and applications · Quantum and electron transport phenomena · Thermal properties of materials

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Affiliations

Chinese Academy of Sciences 1 Institute of Physics, , Beijing 100190, China

Peking University 2 International Center for Quantum Materials, , Beijing 100871, China

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China

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