• 文献标题:   Domain wall competition in the Chern insulating regime of twisted bilayer graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   KWAN YH, WAGNER G, CHAKRABORTY N, SIMON SH, PARAMESWARAN SA
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
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  • 被引频次:   6
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.104.115404
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

We consider magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene at filling nu = +3, where experiments have observed a robust quantized anomalous Hall effect. This has been attributed to the formation of a valley- and spin-polarized Chern insulating ground state that spontaneously breaks time-reversal symmetry and is stabilized by a hexagonal boron nitride substrate. We identify three different types of domain wall and study their properties and energetic selection mechanisms via theoretical arguments and Hartree-Fock calculations adapted to deal with inhomogeneous moire systems. We comment on the implications of these results for transport and scanning probe experiments.