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arXiv 2004.12536cond-mat.str-el
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扭曲双层石墨烯电中性处的相关诱导绝缘拓扑相

Correlation-induced insulating topological phases at charge neutrality in twisted bilayer graphene

Yuan Da Liao, Jian Kang, Clara N. Breiø, Xiao Yan Xu, Han-Qing Wu, Brian M. Andersen, Rafael M. Fernandes, Zi Yang Meng

摘要:

扭曲双层石墨烯(TBG)提供了一个独特的框架,以阐明强关联和拓扑现象之间的相互作用,在二维系统。多个电子自由度的存在--电荷、自旋和谷--产生了过多的可能的有序状态和不稳定性。确定它们中的哪些是在强相关的状态下实现的,对于揭示TBG实验中观察到的超导和相关绝缘状态的性质至关重要。在这里,我们使用无偏的,无符号问题的量子蒙特卡罗模拟,以解决一个有效的相互作用晶格模型TBG在电荷中性。除了通常的簇Hubbard类排斥,该模型还包含一个辅助跳跃的相互作用,出现由于TBG的非平凡的拓扑性质。这种非定域的相互作用从根本上改变了电荷中性的相图,即使是无限小的相互作用也会使狄拉克锥产生缺口。随着相互作用强度的增加,出现了一系列不同的相关绝缘相,包括具有拓扑边缘态的量子谷霍尔态,间隔相干绝缘体和价键固体。这里发现的电中性相关绝缘相提供了所需的全面理解的绝缘状态在整数填充和TBG的接近超导状态的追捧的参考状态。

英文摘要:

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) provides a unique framework to elucidate the interplay between strong correlations and topological phenomena in two-dimensional systems. The existence of multiple electronic degrees of freedom -- charge, spin, and valley -- gives rise to a plethora of possible ordered states and instabilities. Identifying which of them are realized in the regime of strong correlations is fundamental to shed light on the nature of the superconducting and correlated insulating states observed in the TBG experiments. Here, we use unbiased, sign-problem-free quantum Monte Carlo simulations to solve an effective interacting lattice model for TBG at charge neutrality. Besides the usual cluster Hubbard-like repulsion, this model also contains an assisted hopping interaction that emerges due to the non-trivial topological properties of TBG. Such a non-local interaction fundamentally alters the phase diagram at charge neutrality, gapping the Dirac cones even for infinitesimally small interaction. As the interaction strength increases, a sequence of different correlated insulating phases emerge, including a quantum valley Hall state with topological edge states, an intervalley-coherent insulator, and a valence bond solid. The charge-neutrality correlated insulating phases discovered here provide the sought-after reference states needed for a comprehensive understanding of the insulating states at integer fillings and the proximate superconducting states of TBG.

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