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NM01.01.01 2022 MRS Fall Meeting

Plethora of Many-Body Ground States in Magic Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene

When and Where

Nov 29, 2022
8:30am - 9:00am

Hynes, Level 2, Room 205

Presenter

Co-Author(s)

Dmitri Efetov1

LMU Munich and Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques1

Abstract

Dmitri Efetov1

LMU Munich and Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques1
Twist-angle engineering of 2D materials has led to the recent discoveries of novel many-body ground states in moiré systems such as correlated insulators, unconventional superconductivity, strange metals, orbital magnetism and topologically nontrivial phases. These systems are clean and tuneable, where all phases can coexist in a single device, which opens up enormous possibilities to address key questions about the nature of correlation induced superconductivity and topology, and allows to create entirely novel quantum phases with enhanced interactions. In this talk we will introduce some of the main concepts underlying these systems, concentrating on magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) and show how symmetry-broken states emerge at all integer electron fillings [1]. We further will discuss recent experiments including screened interactions [2], Chern insulators [4], magnetic Josephson junctions [4], quantum criticality [5], re-entrant correlated insulators at high magnetic fields [6] and discuss some of the avenues for novel quantum sensing applications [7].<br/><br/>[1] Nature, 574, 653 (2019).<br/>[2] Nature, 583, 375–378 (2020).<br/>[3] Nature Physics, 17, 710 (2021).<br/>[4] arXiv:2110.01067 (2021).<br/>[5] arXiv:2108.07753 (2021).<br/>[6] arXiv:2201.09260 (2021).<br/>[7] arXiv:2111.08735 (2021).

Keywords

spectroscopy

Symposium Organizers

Arend van der Zande, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Johannes Lischner, Imperial College London
Sufei Shi, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst
Jairo Velasco, Univ of California-Berkeley

Publishing Alliance

MRS publishes with Springer Nature