• 文献标题:   Correlated Hofstadter spectrum and flavour phase diagram in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   YU JC, FOUTTY BA, HAN ZY, BARBER ME, SCHATTNER Y, WATANABE K, TANIGUCHI T, PHILLIPS P, SHEN ZX, KIVELSON SA, FELDMAN BE
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  • 出版物名称:   NATURE PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   1745-2473 EI 1745-2481
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  • 被引频次:   9
  • DOI:   10.1038/s41567-022-01589-w EA APR 2022
  • 出版年:   2022

▎ 摘  要

In magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene, the moire superlattice potential gives rise to narrow electronic bands that support a multitude of many-body quantum phases. Further richness arises in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field, where the interplay between moire and magnetic length scales leads to fractal Hofstadter subbands. In this strongly correlated Hofstadter platform, multiple experiments have identified gapped topological and correlated states, but little is known about the phase transitions between them in the intervening compressible regimes. Here we simultaneously unveil sequences of broken-symmetry Chern insulators and resolve sharp phase transitions between competing states with different topological quantum numbers and different occupations of the spin-valley flavour. Our measurements determine the energy spectrum of interacting Hofstadter subbands in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene and map out the phase diagram of flavour occupancy. In addition, we observe full lifting of the degeneracy of the zeroth Landau levels together with level crossings, indicating moire valley splitting. We propose a unified flavour polarization mechanism to understand the intricate interplay of topology, interactions and symmetry breaking as a function of density and applied magnetic field in this system. In graphene, the spin and valley degrees of freedom combine into a higher-order isospin. Now, a full map of the phase diagram of this isospin is measured in the moire bands of twisted bilayer graphene.