Department of Instrumentation and Applied Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India.
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India.
Nat Commun. 2023 Jul 8;14(1):4055. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-39855-x.
Recent experiments in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene have revealed a wealth of novel electronic phases as a result of interaction-driven spin-valley flavour polarisation. In this work, we investigate correlated phases due to the combined effect of spin-orbit coupling-enhanced valley polarisation and the large density of states below half filling of the moiré band in twisted bilayer graphene coupled to tungsten diselenide. We observe an anomalous Hall effect, accompanied by a series of Lifshitz transitions that are highly tunable with carrier density and magnetic field. The magnetisation shows an abrupt change of sign near half-filling, confirming its orbital nature. While the Hall resistance is not quantised at zero magnetic fields-indicating a ground state with partial valley polarisation-perfect quantisation and complete valley polarisation are observed at finite fields. Our results illustrate that singularities in the flat bands in the presence of spin-orbit coupling can stabilise ordered phases even at non-integer moiré band fillings.
最近在魔角扭曲双层石墨烯中的实验揭示了由于相互作用驱动的自旋 - 谷自由度极化而产生的丰富的新型电子相。在这项工作中,我们研究了由于自旋轨道耦合增强的谷极化和扭曲双层石墨烯与二硒化钨耦合的莫尔带在半填充以下的态密度的共同作用而导致的关联相。我们观察到反常霍尔效应,伴随着一系列的李 - 希茨转变,这些转变可以通过载流子密度和磁场高度调节。磁化在半填充附近发生急剧的符号变化,证实了其轨道性质。虽然霍尔电阻在零磁场下没有量子化 - 表明具有部分谷极化的基态 - 在有限磁场下观察到完全量子化和完全谷极化。我们的结果表明,即使在非整数莫尔带填充下,自旋轨道耦合存在的平带中的奇点也可以稳定有序相。