Correlated Insulators in Twisted Double Bilayer Graphene

ORAL

Abstract

We present a combined experimental and theoretical study of twisted double bilayer graphene with twist angles near 1°. Consistent with moiré band structure calculations, we observe insulators at integer moiré band fillings one and three. Within windows of finite transverse electric fields, the first moiré conduction band is separated from neighboring bands, and we observe correlated insulators at 1/4, 1/2, and 3/4 band filling. The insulators at 1/4 and 3/4 filling emerge in a parallel magnetic field, whereas the resistance at half band filling is weakly dependent on parallel magnetic field. These findings suggest that correlated insulators are favored when a moiré flat band is spectrally isolated, with spin polarization at 1/4 and 3/4 band fillings, and valley polarization at 1/2 band filling.

*This work was supported by the National Science Foundation grant EECS-1610008, Army Research Office under Award W911NF-17-1-0312, and the Welch Foundation. Work was partly done at the Texas Nanofabrication Facility supported by NSF grant NNCI-1542159. K. W. and T. T. acknowledge support from the Elemental Strategy Initiative conducted by the MEXT, Japan and JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP15K21722.

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Presenters

  • Gregory William Burg

    • The University of Texas at Austin

Authors

  • Gregory William Burg

    • The University of Texas at Austin

  • Jihang Zhu

    • University of Texas at Austin
    • The University of Texas at Austin
    • Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin

  • Takashi Taniguchi

    • National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
    • National Institute for Material Science
    • National Institute for Materials Science
    • National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba
    • Research Center for Functional Materials, NIMS
    • nims
    • Advanced Materials Laboratory, National Institute for Materials Science
    • National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan
    • NIMS
    • National Institute for Material Science - Japan
    • NIMS Tsukuba
    • National Institute for Materials Science, Namiki 1-1, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan.
    • National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
    • National Institute for Materials Science,Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0047, Japan
    • Advanced Materials Laboratory, NIMS, Japan
    • National Institute for Materials Science,1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, 305-0044, Japan
    • National Institute of Materials Science
    • National Institute for Materials Science, University of Tsukuba
    • National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan
    • National Institue for Material Science, Tsukuba
    • Advanced Materials Laboratory, NIMS
    • Advanced Materials Laboratory, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan
    • Advanced Matrials Lab, NIMS
    • National Institute for Material Science, Tsukuba, Japan
    • National institute for materials science
    • NIMS-Tsukuba
    • NIMS, Japan
    • National Institute for Materials Science, Namiki Tsukuba Ibaraki, Japan
    • Advanced Materials Laboratory, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan
    • NIMS Japan
    • National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
    • Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
    • Advanced Materials Laboratory, National Institute of Materials Science
    • Advanced Materials Laboratory, National Institute for Materials Science 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, 305-0044, Japan
    • National Institute of Material Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan
    • National Institute for Material Science (Japan)
    • Physics, NIMS
    • National Institute of Materials Science, Japan
    • National Institute of Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
    • NIMS - Tsukuba

  • Kenji Watanabe

    • National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
    • National Institute for Material Science
    • National Institute for Materials Science
    • National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba
    • Research Center for Functional Materials, NIMS
    • nims
    • Advanced Materials Laboratory, National Institute for Materials Science
    • National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan
    • NIMS
    • National Institute for Material Science - Japan
    • NIMS Tsukuba
    • National Institute for Materials Science, Namiki 1-1, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan.
    • National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
    • National Institute for Materials Science,Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0047, Japan
    • Advanced Materials Laboratory, NIMS, Japan
    • National Institute for Materials Science,1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, 305-0044, Japan
    • National Institute of Materials Science
    • National Institute for Materials Science, University of Tsukuba
    • National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan
    • National Institute for Material Science, Japan
    • National Institue for Material Science, Tsukuba
    • Advanced Materials Laboratory, NIMS
    • Advanced Materials Laboratory, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan
    • Advanced Matrials Lab, NIMS
    • National Institute for Material Science, Tsukuba, Japan
    • National institute for materials science
    • NIMS-Tsukuba
    • NIMS, Japan
    • National Institute for Materials Science, Namiki Tsukuba Ibaraki, Japan
    • NIRM
    • Advanced Materials Laboratory, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan
    • NIMS Japan
    • National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
    • Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
    • Advanced Materials Laboratory, National Institute of Materials Science
    • Advanced Materials Laboratory, National Institute for Materials Science 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, 305-0044, Japan
    • National Institute of Material Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan
    • National Institute for Material Science (Japan)
    • Physics, NIMS
    • National Institute of Materials Science, Japan
    • National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS)
    • National Institute of Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
    • NIMS - Tsukuba

  • Allan Macdonald

    • University of Texas at Austin
    • Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin
    • Physics department, University of Texas at Austin
    • The University of Texas at Austin

  • Emanuel Tutuc

    • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
    • The University of Texas at Austin