• 文献标题:   Spontaneous Valley Spirals in Magnetically Encapsulated Twisted Bilayer Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   WOLF TMR, ZILBERBERG O, BLATTER G, LADO JL
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007 EI 1079-7114
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  • 被引频次:   11
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.056803
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

Van der Waals heterostructures provide a rich platform for emergent physics due to their tunable hybridization of layers, orbitals, and spin. Here, we find that twisted bilayer graphene stacked between antialigned ferromagnetic insulators can feature flat electronic bands due to the interplay between twist, exchange proximity, and spin-orbit coupling. These flat bands are nearly degenerate in valley only and are effectively described by a triangular superlattice model. At half filling, we find that interactions induce spontaneous valley correlations that favor spiral order and derive a low-energy valley-Heisenberg model with symmetric and antisymmetric exchange couplings. We also show how electric interlayer bias broadens the bands and tunes these couplings. Our results put forward magnetic van der Waals heterostructures as a platform to explore valley-correlated states.