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COMMUNICATIONS PHYSICS
卷 5, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s42005-022-01013-y
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- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Computational Materials Sciences program [DE-SC0020177]
- National Science Foundation [1555278, 1720633]
- DOE Office of Science User Facility [DE-AC05-00OR22725]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0020177] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Materials Research [1555278] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1720633] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
The study reveals that the partially filled band and symmetry breaking phenomena in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene can be explained by the large out-of-plane displacement induced by the interlayer twist. This observation provides insights into the exotic electronic properties in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene and may offer a strategy to mitigate the effects of disorder.
The discovery of unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) supported the twist-angle-induced flat band structure predictions made a decade earlier. Numerous physical properties have since been linked to the interlayer twist angle using the flat band prediction as a guideline. However, some key observations like the nematic phase and striped charge order behind the superconductivity are missing in this initial model. Here we show that a thermodynamically stable large out-of-plane displacement, or corrugation of the bilayer, induced by the interlayer twist, demonstrates partially filled states of the flat band structure, accompanied by a broken symmetry, in the magic-angle regime and the presence of symmetry breaking associated with the superconductivity in tBLG. The distinction between low and high corrugation can also explain the observed evolution of the vibrational spectra of tBLG as a function of twist angle. Our observation that large out-of-plane deformation modes enable partial filling of states near the Fermi energy may lead to a strategy for offsetting the effects of disorder in the local twist angle, which suppresses unconventional superconductivity and correlated insulator behavior in magic-angle tBLG. Twisted bilayer graphene exhibits superconductivity and other electronic phenomena such as flat bands at specific orientations between the layers; however, the origins of the resulting electronic structure are complex. Here, the authors show theoretically that corrugation in the bilayer system can result in partial filling of the flat bands, which has important implications for the exotic electronic properties that are observed.
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