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NATURE
Volume 572, Issue 7767, Pages 101-+Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1422-x
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- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation as part of the EPiQS initiative [GBMF4530]
- DOE-BES [DE-FG02-07ER46419]
- Alexander von Humboldt foundation through a Feodor Lynen postdoctoral fellowship
- Elemental Strategy Initiative
- CREST, JST [JPMJCR15F3]
- Princeton Center for Theoretical Science at Princeton University
- Department of Energy [DE-SC0016239]
- Simons Investigator Award
- Packard Foundation
- NSF EAGER grant [DMR-1643312]
- NSF-MRSEC [DMR-1420541]
- Schmidt Fund for Innovative Research
- A3 Foresight by JSPS
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-FG02-07ER46419] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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The discovery of superconducting and insulating states in magi-cangle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG)(1,2) has ignited considerable interest in understanding the nature of electronic interactions in this chemically pristine material. The transport properties of MATBG as a function of doping are similar to those of high-transition-temperature copper oxides and other unconventional superconductors(1-3), which suggests that MATBG may be a highly interacting system. However, to our knowledge, there is no direct experimental evidence of strong many-body correlations in MATBG. Here we present high-resolution spectroscopic measurements, obtained using a scanning tunnelling microscope, that provide such evidence as a function of carrier density. MATBG displays unusual spectroscopic characteristics that can be attributed to electron-electron interactions over a wide range of doping levels, including those at which superconductivity emerges in this system. We show that our measurements cannot be explained with a mean-field approach for modelling electron-electron interactions in MATBG. The breakdown of a mean-field approach when applied to other correlated superconductors, such as copper oxides, has long inspired the study of the highly correlated Hubbard model(3). We show that a phenomenological extended-Hubbard-model cluster calculation, which is motivated by the nearly localized nature of the relevant electronic states of MATBG, produces spectroscopic features that are similar to those that we observed experimentally. Our findings demonstrate the critical role of many-body correlations in understanding the properties of MATBG.
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