• 文献标题:   Spectroscopic characterization of Landau-level splitting and the intermediate v=0 phase in bilayer graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   YIN LJ, SHI LJ, YANG LZ, TONG LH, HE L
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   Beijing Normal Univ
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.101.165418
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

Despite various novel broken symmetry states have been revealed in bilayer graphene (BLG) experimentally, the atomic-scale spectroscopic investigation has been greatly limited. Here we study high-resolution spectroscopic characteristics of high-quality BLG and observe rich broken-symmetry-induced Landau level (LL) splittings, including valley, spin, and orbit, by using ultralow-temperature and high-magnetic-field scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy (STM and STS). Our experiment demonstrates that both the spin and orbital splittings of the lowest n = (0, 1) LL depend sensitively on its filling and exhibit an obvious enhancement at partial-filling states. More unexpectedly, the splitting of a fully filled and valley-polarized LL is also enhanced by partial filling of the LL with the opposite valley. These results reveal significant many-body effects in this system. At half-filling of the n = (0, 1) LL (filling factor v = 0), a single-particle intermediate v = 0 phase, which is the transition state between canted antiferromagnetic and layer-polarized states in the BLG, is measured and directly visualized at the atomic scale. Our atomic-scale STS measurement gives direct evidence that this intermediate v = 0 state is the predicted orbital-polarized phase.