• 文献标题:   Dirac revivals drive a resonance response in twisted bilayer graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article, Early Access
  • 作  者:   MORISSETTE E, LIN JX, SUN DH, ZHANG LJ, LIU S, RHODES D, WATANABE K, TANIGUCHI T, HONE J, POLLANEN J, SCHEURER MS, LILLY M, MOUNCE A, LI JIA
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  • 出版物名称:   NATURE PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   1745-2473 EI 1745-2481
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  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1038/s41567-023-02060-0 EA MAY 2023
  • 出版年:   2023

▎ 摘  要

Phase transitions during which electrons recover their Dirac nature are shown to produce a spin resonance response that allows the characterization of spin and valley couplings in twisted bilayer graphene. Collective excitations contain key information regarding the electronic order of the ground state of strongly correlated systems. Various collective modes in the spin and valley isospin channels of magic-angle graphene moire bands have been alluded to by a series of recent experiments. However, a direct observation of collective excitations has been impossible due to the lack of a spin probe. Here we observe low-energy collective excitations in twisted bilayer graphene near the magic angle, using a resistively detected electron spin resonance technique. Two independent observations show that the generation and detection of microwave resonance relies on the strong correlations within the flat moire energy band. First, the onset of the resonance response coincides with the spontaneous flavour polarization at moire half-filling, but is absent in the isospin unpolarized density range. Second, we perform the same measurement on various systems that do not have flat bands and observe no indication of a resonance response in these samples. Our explanation is that the resonance response near the magic angle originates from Dirac revivals and the resulting isospin order.