Devakul Trithep, Ledwith Patrick J, Xia Li-Qiao, Uri Aviram, de la Barrera Sergio C, Jarillo-Herrero Pablo, Fu Liang
Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Sci Adv. 2023 Sep 8;9(36):eadi6063. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adi6063. Epub 2023 Sep 6.
We propose magic-angle helical trilayer graphene (HTG), a helical structure featuring identical rotation angles between three consecutive layers of graphene, as a unique and experimentally accessible platform for realizing exotic correlated topological states of matter. While nominally forming a supermoiré (or moiré-of-moiré) structure, we show that HTG locally relaxes into large regions of a periodic single-moiré structure realizing flat topological bands carrying nontrivial valley Chern number. These bands feature near-ideal quantum geometry and are isolated from remote bands by a very large energy gap, making HTG a promising platform for experimental realization of correlated topological states such as integer and fractional quantum anomalous Hall states.
我们提出了魔角螺旋三层石墨烯(HTG),这是一种在三层连续石墨烯之间具有相同旋转角度的螺旋结构,作为实现奇异关联拓扑物态的独特且可通过实验实现的平台。虽然名义上形成了一种超莫尔(或莫尔之莫尔)结构,但我们表明,HTG会局部弛豫为周期性单莫尔结构的大片区域,从而实现携带非平凡谷陈数的平坦拓扑能带。这些能带具有近乎理想的量子几何特性,并且与远程能带被非常大的能隙隔开,这使得HTG成为实验实现诸如整数和分数量子反常霍尔态等关联拓扑态的有前景的平台。