• 文献标题:   Spectroscopy signatures of electron correlations in a trilayer graphene/hBN moire superlattice
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   YANG JX, CHEN GR, HAN TY, ZHANG QH, ZHANG YH, JIANG LL, LYU B, LI HY, WATANABE K, TANIGUCHI T, SHI ZW, SENTHIL T, ZHANG YB, WANG F, JU L
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  • 出版物名称:   SCIENCE
  • ISSN:   0036-8075 EI 1095-9203
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  • 被引频次:   16
  • DOI:   10.1126/science.abg3036
  • 出版年:   2022

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ABC-stacked trilayer graphene/hexagonal boron nitride moire superlattice (TLG/hBN) has emerged as a playground for correlated electron physics. We report spectroscopy measurements of dual-gated TLG/hBN using Fourier transform infrared photocurrent spectroscopy. We observed a strong optical transition between moire minibands that narrows continuously as a bandgap is opened by gating, indicating a reduction of the single-particle bandwidth. At half-filling of the valence flat band, a broad absorption peak emerges at similar to 18 milli-electron volts, indicating direct optical excitation across an emerging Mott gap. Similar photocurrent spectra are observed in two other correlated insulating states at quarter- and half-filling of the first conduction band. Our findings provide key parameters of the Hubbard model for the understanding of electron correlation in TLG/hBN.