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arxiv: 2606.17191 · v1 · pith:VK3UAHBTnew · submitted 2026-06-15 · ❄️ cond-mat.supr-con · cond-mat.dis-nn· cond-mat.str-el

How twist angle inhomogeneity masks the BKT transition and the order parameter symmetry

Ilaria Maccari , Louk Rademaker , Giulia Venditti This is my paper

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keywords BKT transitiontwist angle inhomogeneitymoiré superconductorspercolative transitionorder parameter symmetryfinite-frequency conductancesuperfluid stiffness
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Twist angle inhomogeneity in moiré systems turns the BKT transition into a smeared percolative one and hides whether the superconducting order parameter is nodal or gapped.

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In two-dimensional superconductors such as twisted multilayer graphene, theory predicts a Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition whose signature in the temperature dependence of superfluid stiffness should reveal whether the order parameter is nodal or fully gapped. The paper shows that spatially correlated disorder in the local critical temperature, produced by twist-angle variations, changes this picture. Modeling the inhomogeneity with elasticity theory and then embedding the resulting local-Tc landscape in a random impedance network, the authors find that finite-frequency conductance displays a smeared percolative transition rather than a sharp BKT jump. At low temperatures the same disorder washes out the distinction between nodal and gapped stiffness curves. The real part of the conductivity is proposed as the observable that directly diagnoses the importance of this correlated disorder.

Core claim

Spatially correlated disorder in local Tc, generated by twist-angle inhomogeneities through an elasticity-theory model, replaces the expected BKT transition with a smeared percolative transition in finite-frequency conductance and renders the low-temperature superfluid stiffness insensitive to whether the order parameter is nodal or fully gapped.

What carries the argument

Random impedance network built from a spatially correlated disorder landscape in local Tc that is derived from elasticity theory applied to twist-angle variations.

If this is right

  • Finite-frequency conductance measurements will exhibit a broad, percolative crossover rather than the sharp BKT signature.
  • The temperature dependence of superfluid stiffness at low T cannot reliably distinguish nodal from fully gapped order parameters.
  • The real part of the conductivity becomes the primary experimental probe for the strength of correlated disorder.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Experiments that aim to detect BKT physics in moiré superconductors must first quantify or suppress twist-angle variations.
  • The same modeling approach could be applied to other two-dimensional superconductors whose local Tc is spatially inhomogeneous.
  • If the percolative picture holds, the apparent critical temperature extracted from transport will be higher than the local mean Tc.

Load-bearing premise

That twist-angle inhomogeneities produce spatially correlated disorder in local Tc via elasticity theory and that this disorder dominates the finite-frequency conductance response.

What would settle it

A measurement on a twisted multilayer graphene sample with documented twist-angle inhomogeneity that nevertheless shows a sharp, frequency-independent jump in superfluid stiffness at a well-defined temperature would falsify the claim that the disorder produces a smeared percolative transition.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.17191 by Giulia Venditti, Ilaria Maccari, Louk Rademaker.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: (a) Typical twist angle map, created by numerically solving [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Results tuning the average 𝜃0 angle and the width √︁ Var[𝜃] of the twist angle disorder. (a-d) DC resistivity (right axis, green) and superfluid stiffness (left axis, purple), within the exact RIN model (full lines) and in EMT (dashed). The dotted line is the BKT universal critical line 2𝑇/𝜋. As disorder increases, the stiffness jump is progressively smeared, and 𝐽𝑠 crosses the 2𝑇/𝜋 line continuously, with… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Two-dimensional superconductors, including twisted multilayer graphene, should exhibit a BKT transition, and the $T$-dependence of the superfluid stiffness should distinguish between nodal or gapped order parameter symmetries. However, this picture dramatically changes when spatially correlated disorder is taken into account. Such correlations naturally arise in moir\'e systems due to twist angle inhomogeneities, which we model using elasticity theory. Using a random impedance network based on realistic disorder in the local $T_c$, we show that the finite-frequency conductance reveals a smeared percolative transition instead of a BKT transition. At low temperatures, the disorder can effectively obscure the distinction between nodal and fully gapped superconducting order parameters. We propose that the real part of the conductivity can be used as a key diagnostic observable to probe the relevance of correlated disorder.

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper claims that twist-angle inhomogeneities in moiré superconductors, modeled via linear elasticity theory, generate spatially correlated variations in local Tc. A random impedance network built from this disorder produces finite-frequency conductance that exhibits a smeared percolative transition rather than a BKT jump; at low T the same disorder erases the distinction between nodal and fully gapped order-parameter symmetries. The real part of the conductivity is proposed as the key experimental diagnostic for the relevance of such correlated disorder.

Significance. If the elasticity-to-Tc mapping and the impedance-network results hold, the work supplies a concrete mechanism that can reconcile the frequent absence of sharp BKT signatures in twisted-multilayer-graphene experiments and offers a falsifiable observable (Re[σ(ω)]) to test the importance of twist-angle disorder versus other sources of inhomogeneity.

major comments (2)
  1. [Modeling of twist-angle inhomogeneity (elasticity step)] The central claim rests on the step that linear elasticity theory applied to twist-angle disorder produces the specific long-range spatial correlations in local Tc that drive percolation. No independent validation (e.g., comparison of the computed correlation function or its amplitude against measured local-Tc maps) is supplied; if this mapping deviates from real moiré samples the network output no longer demonstrates that correlated disorder masks BKT.
  2. [Random impedance network and conductance calculation] The impedance-network construction converts the elasticity-derived Tc distribution into conductance; the manuscript must specify how the network parameters are fixed by microscopic quantities rather than chosen to illustrate percolation, and must report the sensitivity of the smeared transition to the free parameters of the local-Tc distribution.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract states the conclusions but supplies neither equations nor validation steps; the main text should include at least one explicit equation for the elasticity-derived correlation function and one for the network impedance.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the careful reading and constructive comments on our manuscript. We address the two major points below. Revisions have been made to strengthen the justification of the elasticity modeling and to provide explicit parameter specifications and sensitivity analysis for the impedance network.

read point-by-point responses

  1. Referee: [Modeling of twist-angle inhomogeneity (elasticity step)] The central claim rests on the step that linear elasticity theory applied to twist-angle disorder produces the specific long-range spatial correlations in local Tc that drive percolation. No independent validation (e.g., comparison of the computed correlation function or its amplitude against measured local-Tc maps) is supplied; if this mapping deviates from real moiré samples the network output no longer demonstrates that correlated disorder masks BKT.

    Authors: We acknowledge that direct experimental validation against local-Tc maps would be desirable. Such spatially resolved maps with sufficient resolution are not yet available in the published literature for twisted multilayer graphene. In the revised manuscript we have expanded the discussion in Section II to include a more detailed derivation of the strain-to-Tc mapping from linear elasticity theory, supported by references to prior theoretical studies of moiré strain and twist disorder. We also compare the predicted correlation length scale with indirect estimates from existing STM and transport data on similar systems, while explicitly noting the current lack of direct local-Tc validation as a limitation. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [Random impedance network and conductance calculation] The impedance-network construction converts the elasticity-derived Tc distribution into conductance; the manuscript must specify how the network parameters are fixed by microscopic quantities rather than chosen to illustrate percolation, and must report the sensitivity of the smeared transition to the free parameters of the local-Tc distribution.

    Authors: We agree that the connection to microscopic quantities and parameter sensitivity should be made explicit. In the revised manuscript we have added a dedicated subsection (Section III.B) that derives the local conductance elements from the BKT superfluid stiffness formula, with the normal-state resistivity and coherence length fixed to experimental values reported for twisted bilayer graphene. A new appendix presents a sensitivity analysis in which the disorder amplitude and correlation length are varied by ±20% around the nominal values; the smeared percolative transition and the loss of distinction between nodal and gapped symmetries remain robust across this range. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; derivation relies on external elasticity theory and standard impedance network simulation without reducing claims to fitted inputs or self-citations by construction.

full rationale

The paper models twist-angle inhomogeneities via elasticity theory to generate spatially correlated local Tc disorder, then feeds those statistics into a random impedance network to compute finite-frequency conductance. This produces a smeared percolative transition rather than a BKT jump. Neither step is self-definitional: the elasticity mapping is an external physical model, the network is a standard computational tool, and the output (conductance signatures) is not equivalent to the input disorder parameters by construction. No load-bearing self-citation chain, ansatz smuggling, or renaming of known results is evident in the abstract or described chain. The central claim remains an independent numerical demonstration under stated assumptions.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the applicability of elasticity theory to generate correlated Tc disorder and on the adequacy of the random impedance network to capture finite-frequency transport; no new entities are introduced.

free parameters (1)
  • local Tc distribution parameters
    The network uses a distribution of local critical temperatures drawn from realistic disorder, which requires choices for correlation length and variance.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Elasticity theory accurately describes the spatial correlations induced by twist angle inhomogeneities in moire lattices.
    Invoked to justify the form of the disorder correlations in the model.

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