Kim Dohun, Kang Byungmin, Choi Yong-Bin, Watanabe Kenji, Taniguchi Takashi, Lee Gil-Ho, Cho Gil Young, Kim Youngwook
Department of Physics and Chemistry, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Daegu 42988, Republic of Korea.
Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States.
Nano Lett. 2023 Jan 11;23(1):163-169. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c03836. Epub 2022 Dec 16.
We introduce a novel two-dimensional electronic system with ultrastrong interlayer interactions, namely, twisted bilayer graphene with a large twist angle, as an ideal ground for realizing interlayer-coherent excitonic condensates. In these systems, sub-nanometer atomic separation between the layers allows significant interlayer interactions, while interlayer electron tunneling is geometrically suppressed due to the large twist angle. By fully exploiting these two features we demonstrate that a sequence of odd-integer quantum Hall states with interlayer coherence appears at the second Landau level ( = 1). Notably the energy gaps for these states are of order 1 K, which is several orders of magnitude greater than those in GaAs. Furthermore, a variety of quantum Hall phase transitions are observed experimentally. All the experimental observations are largely consistent with our phenomenological model calculations. Hence, we establish that a large twist angle system is an excellent platform for high-temperature excitonic condensation.
我们引入了一种具有超强层间相互作用的新型二维电子系统,即大扭转角的扭曲双层石墨烯,作为实现层间相干激子凝聚的理想平台。在这些系统中,层间亚纳米级的原子间距允许显著的层间相互作用,而由于大扭转角,层间电子隧穿在几何上受到抑制。通过充分利用这两个特性,我们证明在第二朗道能级((n = 1))出现了一系列具有层间相干性的奇整数量子霍尔态。值得注意的是,这些态的能隙约为(1)开尔文,比砷化镓中的能隙大几个数量级。此外,实验中还观察到了各种量子霍尔相变。所有实验观测结果在很大程度上与我们的唯象模型计算一致。因此,我们确定大扭转角系统是高温激子凝聚的优秀平台。