ERC Consolidator Grant · 2022
A new SUPERconducting LANDscape: using nanoscale inhomogeneity for enhanced superconductivity
Superconductivity is a uniquely quantum mechanical phenomenon that despite decades of intense research is still very hard to control. It is heavily dependent on the density of states (DOS) around zero energy, but this DOS tunability has so far remained largely untapped. This proposal aims to theoretically create and enhance superconductivity by producing large DOS peaks at zero energy using nanoscale inhomogeneity, thereby creating an entirely new, spatial and figurative, landscape for superconductivity. A rare, not yet understood, example is twisted bilayer graphene, an all-carbon material not assumed to be superconducting. Here small twist angles produce an inhomogeneous moiré structure…
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