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Quasiparticle and superfluid dynamics in Magic-Angle Graphene

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Elías Portolés *
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Marta Perego
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Pavel A. Volkov *
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Mathilde Toschini
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Yana Kemna
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Alexandra Mestre-Torá
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Giulia Zheng
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Artem O. Denisov
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Folkert K. de Vries
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Peter Rickhaus
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Takashi Taniguchi
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Kenji Watanabe
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J. H. Pixley
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Thomas Ihn
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K. Ensslin
DOI:10.1038/s41467-025-58325-0delete
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Abstract

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Magic-Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene (MATBG) shows a wide range of correlated phases which are electrostatically tunable. Despite a growing knowledge of the material, there is yet no consensus on the microscopic mechanisms driving its superconducting phase. A major obstacle to progress in this direction is that key thermodynamic properties, such as specific heat, electron-phonon coupling and superfluid stiffness, are challenging to measure due to the 2D nature of the material and its relatively low energy scales. Here, we use a gate-defined, radio frequency-biased, Josephson junction to probe the electronic dynamics of MATBG. We demonstrate evidence for two processes determining the low-frequency dynamics across the phase diagram: thermalization of electronic quasiparticles through phonon scattering and inductive response of the superconducting condensate. A phenomenological approach allows us to relate the experimentally observed dynamics to several thermodynamic properties of MATBG, including electron-phonon coupling and superfluid stiffness. Our findings support anisotropic or nodal superconductivity in MATBG and demonstrate a broadly applicable method for studying properties of 2D materials with out-of-equilibrium nanodevice dynamics.
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Nature Communications
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15.7
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