• 文献标题:   Evidence of Orbital Ferromagnetism in Twisted Bilayer Graphene Aligned to Hexagonal Boron Nitride
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SHARPE AL, FOX EJ, BARNARD AW, FINNEY J, WATANABE K, TANIGUCHI T, KASTNER MA, GOLDHABERGORDON D
  • 作者关键词:   twisted bilayer graphene, orbital magnetism, electronic correlation, lowtemperature transport
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
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  • 被引频次:   21
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c00696 EA MAY 2021
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

We have previously reported ferromagnetism evinced by a large hysteretic anomalous Hall effect in twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG). Subsequent measurements of a quantized Hall resistance and small longitudinal resistance confirmed that this magnetic state is a Chern insulator. Here, we report that when tilting the sample in an external magnetic field, the ferromagnetism is highly anisotropic. Because spin-orbit coupling is weak in graphene, such anisotropy is unlikely to come from spin but rather favors theories in which the ferromagnetism is orbital. We know of no other case in which ferromagnetism has a purely orbital origin. For an applied in-plane field larger than 5 T, the out-of-plane magnetization is destroyed, suggesting a transition to a new phase.