Valley domain walls act as impenetrable barriers to transport in metallic rhombohedral graphene unless intervalley interactions mediate transmission, and intervalley mixing is required for appreciable supercurrent in SNS' junctions connecting opposite-chirality regions.
Reconfigurable chiral superconductivity
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Rhombohedral multilayer graphene at high displacement fields hosts superconductivity emerging from a spin valley polarized quarter metal, with transport signatures suggestive of time reversal symmetry (TRS) breaking and chiral superconductivity (CSC). These observations have motivated proposals of topological superconductivity and non-Abelian quasiparticles, yet direct magnetic evidence and microscopic insight into the superconducting state remain lacking, limiting understanding of this unique state. Here we use nanoscale SQUID on tip magnetometry to image isospin-polarized domains in rhombohedral pentalayer graphene and establish CSC via spatially resolved thermodynamic detection of TRS breaking. We find that the density at which domain walls proliferate at elevated temperatures coincides with the onset of CSC, indicating an underlying transition in the parent state that both induces superconductivity and reduces domain wall energy. We further show that the chiral domain structure in the superconducting phase is inherited from the isospin-polarized parent state. Strikingly, the CSC phase exhibits multiple transport regimes governed by configurations of chiral domains separated by highly resistive domain walls. We demonstrate deterministic, ultra low current control of these domains, enabling reversible switching between states of opposite chirality a defining CSC property absent in other superconductors. These results establish rhombohedral graphene as a unique platform for reconfigurable CSC and ultra low power electronic functionality based on controllable isospin textures.
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Valley Valves at Domain Walls in Symmetry-Broken Rhombohedral Graphene
Valley domain walls act as impenetrable barriers to transport in metallic rhombohedral graphene unless intervalley interactions mediate transmission, and intervalley mixing is required for appreciable supercurrent in SNS' junctions connecting opposite-chirality regions.
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Visualizing orbital magnetism in electron doped rhombohedral multilayer graphene
NanoSQUID magnetometry visualizes orbital magnetism in rhombohedral multilayer graphene, showing finite orbital moment in the superconducting state and density-tuned magnetic domain switching in the metallic regime.