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扭转双层-双层石墨烯中的对称性破缺陈绝缘体

Symmetry-broken Chern insulators in twisted double bilayer graphene

Minhao He, Jiaqi Cai, Ya-Hui Zhang, Yang Liu, Yuhao Li, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, David H. Cobden, Matthew Yankowitz, Xiaodong Xu

AI总结:

该研究通过测量十多个扭转双层-双层石墨烯器件,构建了关联与拓扑态相图,发现仅在约1.33°至1.39°的窄扭转角范围内出现对称性破缺陈绝缘体态,并观察到零场反常霍尔效应,揭示了自发时间反演对称性破缺。

摘要:

扭转双层-双层石墨烯(tDBG)已成为研究强关联和拓扑物态的一个特别丰富的平台。该材料具有可通过垂直位移场和扭转角连续变形的莫尔能带。在此,我们基于对十多个tDBG器件的测量构建了一个相图,用以表示关联态和拓扑态随这些参数的变化,这些器件涵盖两种不同的堆叠构型,其中组成性的伯纳尔双层石墨烯片层相对于0°或60°略微旋转。我们发现随着扭转角接近一个明显的优化值$θ\approx$ 1.34°,一系列对称性破缺态依次出现。其中,我们发现了一系列对称性破缺陈绝缘体(SBCI)态,这些态仅在一个狭窄的扭转角范围内(约1.33°至1.39°)出现。我们在所有支持SBCI态的样品中观察到零场下的反常霍尔效应,表明在零磁场下存在自发的时间反演对称性破缺以及可能的莫尔原胞扩大。

英文摘要:

Twisted double bilayer graphene (tDBG) has emerged as an especially rich platform for studying strongly correlated and topological states of matter. The material features moiré bands that can be continuously deformed by both perpendicular displacement field and twist angle. Here, we construct a phase diagram representing of the correlated and topological states as a function of these parameters, based on measurements on over a dozen tDBG devices encompassing the two distinct stacking configurations in which the constituent Bernal bilayer graphene sheets are rotated either slightly away from 0° or 60°. We find a hierarchy of symmetry-broken states that emerge sequentially as the twist angle approaches an apparent optimal value of $θ\approx$ 1.34°. Among them, we discover a sequence of symmetry-broken Chern insulator (SBCI) states that arise only within a narrow range of twist angles ($\approx$ 1.33° to 1.39°). We observe an associated anomalous Hall effect at zero field in all samples supporting SBCI states, indicating spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking and possible moiré unit cell enlargement at zero magnetic field.

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