Yin Long-Jing, Shi Li-Juan, Li Si-Yu, Zhang Yu, Guo Zi-Han, He Lin
Center for Advanced Quantum Studies, Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China.
Key Laboratory for Micro/Nano Optoelectronic Devices of Ministry of Education & Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Structural Physics and Devices, School of Physics and Electronics, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China.
Phys Rev Lett. 2019 Apr 12;122(14):146802. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.146802.
ABC-stacked trilayer graphene (TLG) was predicted to exhibit novel many-body phenomena due to the existence of almost dispersionless flat bands near the charge neutrality point. Here, using high-magnetic-field scanning tunneling microscopy, we present Landau Level (LL) spectroscopy measurements of high-quality ABC-stacked TLG on graphite. We observe an approximately linear magnetic-field scaling of valley splitting and spin splitting in the ABC-stacked TLG. Our experiment indicates that the spin splitting decreases dramatically with increasing the LL index. When the lowest LL is partially filled, we find an obvious enhancement of the spin splitting, attributing to strong many-body effects. Moreover, we observe linear energy scaling of the inverse lifetime of quasiparticles, providing an additional evidence for the strong electron-electron interactions in the ABC-stacked TLG. These results imply that interesting broken-symmetry states and novel electron correlated effects could emerge in the ABC-stacked TLG in the presence of high magnetic fields.
由于在电荷中性点附近存在几乎无色散的平带,ABC堆叠的三层石墨烯(TLG)被预测会表现出新颖的多体现象。在此,我们使用高磁场扫描隧道显微镜,展示了在石墨上高质量ABC堆叠TLG的朗道能级(LL)光谱测量结果。我们观察到ABC堆叠TLG中的谷分裂和自旋分裂呈现出近似线性的磁场标度关系。我们的实验表明,自旋分裂随着LL指数的增加而急剧减小。当最低的LL被部分填充时,我们发现自旋分裂有明显增强,这归因于强烈的多体效应。此外,我们观察到准粒子逆寿命的线性能量标度关系,为ABC堆叠TLG中强烈的电子-电子相互作用提供了额外证据。这些结果意味着在高磁场存在的情况下,ABC堆叠的TLG中可能会出现有趣的破缺对称态和新颖的电子关联效应。