title: 2020 description: Twist physics keeps publishing through lockdown. GO-adjacent rumors start. FGR entitlements close. date: 2020-01-01 tags:
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Evidence: Named papers and the FGR close notice. First-post dates for rumor videos vary by platform.
Twist
- Stepanov, Das, Lu, et al., Nat. Phys. 16, 926 (2020). Superconductivity in magic-angle bilayer can sit away from the correlated insulators; SC survives larger angle detuning. Competing-phases reading, not “doped Mott like cuprates only.”
- Cao / Jarillo-Herrero 2020 Nature pair (same week MIT notes): mapping local twist disorder, and a four-layer magic-angle stack more sensitive to E and B than the bilayer. Still a fridge device.
Twisted trilayer Pauli-limit story is 2021. Do not collapse the years.
Industry
12 Jun 2020 — FGR entitlements A$6.2 million. raises-2015-2025
Mask / antiviral-coating pitches: preliminary unless the paper is attached.
Fringe weather
Early pandemic posts begin mixing real GO nanosafety papers with vaccine / 5G / “self-assembling” claims. Volume is not yet 2021. A preprint on GO toxicity is not covert deployment. conspiracies · 2021