Dale Nicholas, Utama M Iqbal Bakti, Lee Dongkyu, Leconte Nicolas, Zhao Sihan, Lee Kyunghoon, Taniguchi Takashi, Watanabe Kenji, Jozwiak Chris, Bostwick Aaron, Rotenberg Eli, Koch Roland J, Jung Jeil, Wang Feng, Lanzara Alessandra
Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.
Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.
Nano Lett. 2023 Aug 9;23(15):6799-6806. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c00253. Epub 2023 Jul 24.
Near the magic angle, strong correlations drive many intriguing phases in twisted bilayer graphene (tBG) including unconventional superconductivity and chern insulation. Whether correlations can tune symmetry breaking phases in tBG at intermediate (≳ 2°) twist angles remains an open fundamental question. Here, using ARPES, we study the effects of many-body interactions and displacement field on the band structure of tBG devices at an intermediate (3°) twist angle. We observe a layer- and doping-dependent renormalization of bands at the points that is qualitatively consistent with moiré models of the Hartree-Fock interaction. We provide evidence of correlation-enhanced inversion symmetry-breaking, manifested by gaps at the Dirac points that are tunable with doping. These results suggest that electronic interactions play a significant role in the physics of tBG even at intermediate twist angles and present a new pathway toward engineering band structure and symmetry-breaking phases in moiré heterostructures.
在魔角附近,强关联驱动了扭曲双层石墨烯(tBG)中的许多有趣相,包括非常规超导和陈绝缘。在中等(≳2°)扭曲角下,关联是否能调节tBG中的对称破缺相仍然是一个悬而未决的基本问题。在这里,我们使用角分辨光电子能谱(ARPES)研究了多体相互作用和位移场对中等(3°)扭曲角的tBG器件能带结构的影响。我们观察到在Γ点处能带的层和掺杂依赖性重整化,这在定性上与哈特里-福克相互作用的莫尔模型一致。我们提供了关联增强的反演对称性破缺的证据,表现为狄拉克点处的能隙可随掺杂而调节。这些结果表明,即使在中等扭曲角下,电子相互作用在tBG的物理性质中也起着重要作用,并为在莫尔异质结构中设计能带结构和对称破缺相提供了一条新途径。