• 文献标题:   Realization of topological Mott insulator in a twisted bilayer graphene lattice model
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   CHEN BB, LIAO YD, CHEN ZY, VAFEK O, KANG J, LI W, MENG ZY
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  • 出版物名称:   NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
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  • 被引频次:   29
  • DOI:   10.1038/s41467-021-25438-1
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has recently become a thriving material platform realizing correlated electron phenomena taking place within its topological flat bands. Several numerical and analytical methods have been applied to understand the correlated phases therein, revealing some similarity with the quantum Hall physics. In this work, we provide a Mott-Hubbard perspective for the TBG system. Employing the large-scale density matrix renormalization group on the lattice model containing the projected Coulomb interactions only, we identify a first-order quantum phase transition between the insulating stripe phase and the quantum anomalous Hall state with the Chern number of +/- 1. Our results not only shed light on the mechanism of the quantum anomalous Hall state discovered at three-quarters filling, but also provide an example of the topological Mott insulator, i.e., the quantum anomalous Hall state in the strong coupling limit.