• 文献标题:   Strain-Induced Quantum Phase Transitions in Magic-Angle Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   PARKER DE, SOEJIMA T, HAUSCHILD J, ZALETEL MP, BULTINCK N
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007 EI 1079-7114
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  • 被引频次:   45
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.027601
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

We investigate the effect of uniaxial heterostrain on the interacting phase diagram of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene. Using both self-consistent Hartree-Fock and density-matrix renormalization group calculations, we find that small strain values (epsilon similar to 0.1%-0.2%) drive a zero-temperature phase transition between the symmetry-broken "Kramers intervalley-coherent" insulator and a nematic semimetal. The critical strain lies within the range of experimentally observed strain values, and we therefore predict that strain is at least partly responsible for the sample-dependent experimental observations.