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ArticleACS applied materials & interfaces2025

Gate-Tunable Orbital Magnetism and Competing Superconductivity in Twisted Trilayer Graphene Josephson Junctions.

Vishal Bhardwaj, Lekshmi Rajagopal, Lorenzo Arici, Matan Bocarsly, Alexey Ilin, Gal Shavit, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Yuval Oreg, Tobias Holder and 1 more

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Vishal BhardwajDepartment of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel.
Lekshmi RajagopalDepartment of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel.
Lorenzo AriciDepartment of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel.
Matan BocarslyDepartment of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel.
Alexey IlinDepartment of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel.
Gal ShavitDepartment of Physics and Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States.
Kenji WatanabeResearch Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-3701-8119
Takashi TaniguchiInternational Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-1467-3105
Yuval OregDepartment of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel.
Tobias HolderSchool of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.
Yuval RonenDepartment of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-2427-2591

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Abstract

Twisted trilayer graphene (TTG) provides a tunable moiré platform to study correlated phases emerging from flat-band physics. Here, we investigate the interplay between superconductivity and spontaneous orbital magnetism (OM) in alternating TTG devices with intermediate twist angles (1.38-1.44°). Using electrostatically defined Josephson junctions, we demonstrate that OM, stabilized near the charge neutrality point (CNP), competes with gate-induced superconductivity. The OM phase is characterized by sharp jumps in Hall resistance, current-induced bistability, and a Curie-Bloch temperature dependence, indicating broken time-reversal symmetry. Additionally, nonreciprocal Josephson transport─manifested as asymmetric Fraunhofer patterns and a superconducting diode effect─provides independent evidence of an orbital magnetic state confined to the weak link. The observed critical temperature hierarchy, where superconductivity dominates over OM at higher carrier densities and displacement fields, reveals a tunable competition between two broken-symmetry ground states. Our findings establish alternating TTG Josephson devices as a minimal and versatile platform to probe the coexistence of magnetism and superconductivity in engineered moiré systems.

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Josephson junctionmoiré heterostructuresorbital magnetismsuperconductivitytime-reversal symmetry breakingtwisted trilayer graphene (TTG)valley polarization

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PMCPMC12754749

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