• 文献标题:   Dirac spectroscopy of strongly correlated phases in twisted trilayer graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SHEN C, LEDWITH PJ, WATANABE K, TANIGUCHI T, KHALAF E, VISHWANATH A, EFETOV DK
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  • 出版物名称:   NATURE MATERIALS
  • ISSN:   1476-1122 EI 1476-4660
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  • 被引频次:   6
  • DOI:   10.1038/s41563-022-01428-6 EA DEC 2022
  • 出版年:   2023

▎ 摘  要

Magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene (MATTG) hosts flat electronic bands, and exhibits correlated quantum phases with electrical tunability. In this work, we demonstrate a spectroscopy technique that allows for dissociation of intertwined bands and quantification of the energy gaps and Chern numbers C of the correlated states in MATTG by driving band crossings between Dirac cone Landau levels and energy gaps in the flat bands. We uncover hard correlated gaps with C = 0 at integer moir & eacute; unit cell fillings of v = 2 and 3 and reveal charge density wave states originating from van Hove singularities at fractional fillings v = 5/3 and 11/3. In addition, we demonstrate displacement-field-driven first-order phase transitions at charge neutrality and v = 2, which are consistent with a theoretical strong-coupling analysis, implying C(2)Tsymmetry breaking. Overall, these properties establish a diverse electrically tunable phase diagram of MATTG and provide an avenue for investigating other related systems hosting both steep and flat bands.