Waters Dacen, Su Ruiheng, Thompson Ellis, Okounkova Anna, Arreguin-Martinez Esmeralda, He Minhao, Hinds Katherine, Watanabe Kenji, Taniguchi Takashi, Xu Xiaodong, Zhang Ya-Hui, Folk Joshua, Yankowitz Matthew
Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Nat Commun. 2024 Dec 4;15(1):10552. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-55001-7.
Moiré materials host a wealth of intertwined correlated and topological states of matter, all arising from flat electronic bands with nontrivial quantum geometry. A prominent example is the family of alternating-twist magic-angle graphene stacks, which exhibit symmetry-broken states at rational fillings of the moiré band and superconductivity close to half filling. Here, we introduce a second family of twisted graphene multilayers made up of twisted sheets of M- and N-layer Bernal-stacked graphene flakes. Calculations indicate that applying an electric displacement field isolates a flat and topological moiré conduction band that is primarily localized to a single graphene sheet below the moiré interface. Phenomenologically, the result is a striking similarity in the hierarchies of symmetry-broken phases across this family of twisted graphene multilayers. Our results show that this family of structures offers promising new opportunities for the discovery of exotic new correlated and topological phenomena, enabled by using the layer number to fine tune the flat moiré band and its screening environment.
莫尔材料包含大量相互交织的关联和拓扑物态,所有这些都源于具有非平凡量子几何的平带电子。一个突出的例子是交替扭曲魔角石墨烯堆叠家族,它们在莫尔带的有理填充处表现出对称性破缺态,并且在接近半填充时出现超导性。在此,我们引入了由M层和N层伯纳尔堆叠石墨烯薄片的扭曲片组成的第二类扭曲石墨烯多层结构。计算表明,施加电位移场会分离出一个平的拓扑莫尔导带,该导带主要局域在莫尔界面下方的单个石墨烯薄片上。从现象学角度来看,结果是在这一扭曲石墨烯多层结构家族中,对称性破缺相的层次结构存在显著相似性。我们的结果表明,通过利用层数来微调平的莫尔带及其屏蔽环境,这一结构家族为发现奇异的新型关联和拓扑现象提供了有前景的新机会。