• 文献标题:   Superlattice-Induced Insulating States and Valley-Protected Orbits in Twisted Bilayer Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   CAO Y, LUO JY, FATEMI V, FANG S, SANCHEZYAMAGISHI JD, WATANABE K, TANIGUCHI T, KAXIRAS E, JARILLOHERRERO P
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007 EI 1079-7114
  • 通讯作者地址:   MIT
  • 被引频次:   77
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.116804
  • 出版年:   2016

▎ 摘  要

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) is one of the simplest van der Waals heterostructures, yet it yields a complex electronic system with intricate interplay between moire physics and interlayer hybridization effects. We report on electronic transport measurements of high mobility small angle TBLG devices showing clear evidence for insulating states at the superlattice band edges, with thermal activation gaps several times larger than theoretically predicted. Moreover, Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations and tight binding calculations reveal that the band structure consists of two intersecting Fermi contours whose crossing points are effectively unhybridized. We attribute this to exponentially suppressed interlayer hopping amplitudes for momentum transfers larger than the moire wave vector.