• 文献标题:   Spectroscopic Evidence for a Spin- and Valley-Polarized Metallic State in a Nonmagic-Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   REN YN, LU C, ZHANG Y, LI SY, LIU YW, YAN C, GUO ZH, LIU CC, YANG F, HE L
  • 作者关键词:   twisted bilayer graphene, moire superlattice, scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy, electronelectron correlation, spin valley polarization
  • 出版物名称:   ACS NANO
  • ISSN:   1936-0851 EI 1936-086X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Beijing Normal Univ
  • 被引频次:   2
  • DOI:   10.1021/acsnano.0c04631
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

In the magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MA-TBG), strong electron electron (e-e) correlations caused by the band-flattening lead to many exotic quantum phases such as superconductivity, correlated insulator, ferromagnetism, and quantum anomalous Hall effects, when its low-energy van Hove singularities (VHSs) are partially filled. Here our high resolution scanning tunneling microscope and spectroscopy measurements demonstrate that the e-e correlation in a nonmagic-angle TBG with a twist angle theta = 1.49 degrees still plays an important role in determining its electronic properties. Our most interesting observation on that sample is when one of its VHSs is partially filled, the one associated peak in the spectrum splits into four peaks. Simultaneously, the spatial symmetry of electronic states around the split VHSs is broken by the e e correlation. Our analysis based on the continuum model suggests that such a one -to -four split of the VHS originates from the formation of an interaction -driven spin -valley-polarized metallic state near the VHS, which is a symmetry-breaking phase that has not been lidentified in the MA-TBG or lin other systems.