• 文献标题:   Charge order and Mott insulating ground states in small-angle twisted bilayer graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   KLUG MJ
  • 作者关键词:   smallangle twisted bilayer graphene, ground state analysi, charge density wave order, mott insulating state, nematicity
  • 出版物名称:   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   1367-2630
  • 通讯作者地址:   Karlsruher Inst Technol
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1088/1367-2630/ab950c
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

In this work, we determine states of electronic order of small-angle twisted bilayer graphene. Ground states are determined for weak and strong couplings which are representatives for varying distances of the twist-angle from its magic value. In the weak-coupling regime, charge density waves emerge which break translational and C-3-rotational symmetry. In the strong coupling-regime, we find rotational and translational symmetry breaking Mott insulating states for all commensurate moire band fillings. Depending on the local occupation of superlattice sites hosting up to four electrons, global spin-(ferromagnetic) and valley symmetries are also broken which may give rise to a reduced Landau level degeneracy as observed in experiments for commensurate band fillings. The formation of those particular electron orders is traced back to the important role of characteristic non-local interactions which connect all localized states belonging to one hexagon formed by the AB- and BA-stacked regions of the superlattice.