• 文献标题:   Strong correlations in ABC-stacked trilayer graphene: Moir? is important
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   PATRI AS, SENTHIL T
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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:   0
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.107.165122
  • 出版年:   2023

▎ 摘  要

Recent experiments on multilayer graphene materials have discovered a plethora of correlated phases, including ferromagnetism and superconductivity, in the absence of a moirc potential. These findings pose an intriguing question of whether an underlying moirc potential plays a key role in determining the phases realizable in tunable two-dimensional quantum materials, or whether it merely acts as a weak periodic potential that perturbs an underlying correlated many body state. In this work, employing a Hartree-Fock mean field analysis, we examine this question theoretically by quantitatively studying the effects of a hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) substrate on ABC-stacked trilayer graphene (ABC-TLG). For the topologically trivial regime, we find that the moirc potential leads to a strong suppression of the ferromagnetism of the underlying metal. Further, band insulators appear solely at full filling of the moirc unit cell, with a moirc potential stronger than is conventionally assumed. Thus the observed correlated insulating phases in ABC-TLG aligned with h-BN cannot be understood through band folding of the ferromagnetic metal found without the moirc potential. For the topologically nontrivial regime, we discover the appearance of prominent incompressible states when fractional hole fillings (of the moirc unit cell) coincide with the occurrence of fractional-metallic states in the moirc-less setting, as well as a slight weakening of the ferromagnetic nature of the phases; however, this once again requires a moirc potential stronger than is conventionally assumed. Our findings highlight the importance of interactions in renormalizing the electronic band structure and emphasize the key role played by the moirc potential in determining the strong correlation physics.