• 文献标题:   Correlations in the elastic Landau level of spontaneously buckled graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   MANESCO ALR, LADO JL, RIBEIRO EVS, WEBER G, RODRIGUES D
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, 2dimensional system, synthetic gauge field, landau level, magnetic order, van der waals system
  • 出版物名称:   2D MATERIALS
  • ISSN:   2053-1583
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  • 被引频次:   7
  • DOI:   10.1088/2053-1583/abbc5f
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

Electronic correlations stemming from nearly flat bands in van der Waals materials have demonstrated to be a powerful playground to engineer artificial quantum matter, including superconductors, correlated insulators and topological matter. This phenomenology has been experimentally observed in a variety of twisted van der Waals materials, such as graphene and dichalcogenide multilayers. Here we show that spontaneously buckled graphene can yield a correlated state, emerging from an elastic pseudo Landau level. Our results build on top of recent experimental findings reporting that, when placed on top of hBN or NbSe2 substrates, wrinkled graphene sheets relax forming a periodic, long-range buckling pattern. The low-energy physics can be accurately described by electrons in the presence of a pseudo-axial gauge field, leading to the formation of sublattice-polarized Landau levels. Moreover, we verify that the high density of states at the zeroth Landau level leads to the formation of a periodically modulated ferrimagnetic groundstate, which can be controlled by the application of external electric fields. Our results indicate that periodically strained graphene is a versatile platform to explore emergent electronic states arising from correlated elastic Landau levels.