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Superconductivity in twisted bilayer WSe2

  • Yiyu Xia,
  • Zhongdong Han,
  • Kenji Watanabe,
  • Takashi Taniguchi,
  • Jie Shan,
  • Kin Fai Mak

摘要

Moiré materials have enabled the realization of flat electron bands and quantum phases that are driven by the strong correlations associated with flat bands14. Superconductivity has been observed, but only in graphene moiré materials59. The absence of robust superconductivity in moiré materials beyond graphene, such as semiconductor moiré materials4, has remained a mystery and challenged our current understanding of superconductivity in flat bands. Here we report the observation of robust superconductivity in both 3.5° and 3.65° twisted bilayer tungsten diselenide (WSe2), which hosts a hexagonal moiré lattice10,11. Superconductivity emerges near half-band filling and zero external displacement fields. The optimal superconducting transition temperature is about 200 mK in both cases and constitutes about 1–2% of the effective Fermi temperature; the latter is comparable to the value in high-temperature cuprate superconductors12 and suggests strong pairing. The superconductor borders on two distinct metals below and above half-band filling; it undergoes a continuous transition to a correlated insulator by tuning the external displacement field. The observed superconductivity on the verge of Coulomb-induced charge localization suggests roots in strong electron correlations12,13.