• 文献标题:   Emergence of Ferromagnetism Due to Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in a Twisted Bilayer Graphene Nanoflex
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   PANT D, ARYAL S, MANDAL S, PATI R
  • 作者关键词:   ferromagnetism, bilayer graphene nanoflex, broken symmetry, electronic structure
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
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  • 被引频次:   3
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c01972 EA SEP 2021
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

Twisted bilayer graphene exhibits many intriguing behaviors ranging from superconductivity to the anomalous Hall effect to ferromagnetism at a magic angle of similar to 1 degrees. Here, using a first-principles approach, we reveal ferromagnetism in a twisted bilayer graphene nanoflex. Our results demonstrate that when the energy gap of a twisted nanoflex approaches zero, electronic instability occurs and a ferromagnetic gap state emerges spontaneously to lower the energy. Unlike the observed ferromagnetism at a magic angle in the graphene bilayer, we notice the ferromagnetic phase appearing aperiodically between 0 and 30 degrees in the twisted nanoflex. The origin of electronic instability at various twist angles is ascribed to the several higher-symmetry phases that are broken to lower the energy resulting from an aperiodic modulation of the interlayer interaction in the nanoflex. Besides unraveling a spin-pairing mechanism for the reappearance of the nonmagnetic phase, we have found orbitals at the boundary of nanoflex contributing to ferromagnetism.