Probing orbital Chern ferromagnet phase in twisted bilayer graphene

ORAL

Abstract

Electrons in the moiré flat bands of magic angle twisted bilayer graphene aligned to hexagonal boron nitride can break time reversal symmetry and open an interaction-driven, topological gap. The resulting magnetic order and associated quantized anomalous Hall effect have properties that diverge substantially from quantized anomalous Hall effects observed in other systems. I will present transport data and scanning probe magnetometry data acquired using a nanoSQUID-on-tip microscope. A quantitative analysis of the magnitude of the magnetization of the Chern magnet shows that the magnetic moment per moiré unit cell substantially exceeds 1 μB and grows rapidly in the topological gap, consistent with an orbital origin for the magnetic order. We find that the Barkhausen jumps observed in transport measurements can be mapped directly to microscopic motion of ferromagnetic domain walls. These domain walls are strongly pinned to disorder in the device and are reproducible across thermal cycles, suggesting coupling between the magnetic degrees of freedom and structural inhomogeneity.

*I acknowledge and appreciate support from the Hertz Foundation and from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program under grant 1650114.

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Presenters

  • Charles Tschirhart

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

Authors

  • Charles Tschirhart

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Marec Serlin

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Hryhoriy Polshyn

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Avi G Shragai

    • Physics, Cornell University

  • Zhengchao Xia

    • Physics, Cornell University

  • Jiacheng Zhu

    • Cornell University
    • Physics, Cornell University

  • Yuxuan Zhang

    • Physics, University of Maryland
    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Kenji Watanabe

    • National Institute for Materials Science
    • National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
    • National Institure for Materials Science
    • Advanced Materials Laboratory, National Institute for Materials Science
    • NIMS
    • National Institute of Materials Science
    • National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
    • Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science
    • National Institute for Materials Science,1-1 Namiki
    • National Institute of Material Science
    • National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan
    • Research Center for Functional Materials, NIMS
    • National Institute of Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan
    • National Institude for Materials Science
    • National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
    • Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan
    • International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials
    • NIMS - Japan
    • National Institute for Materials Science ,Japan
    • National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, 305-0044, Ibaraki, Japan
    • National Institute for Material Science
    • National Institute for Material Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan
    • National Institute for Material Science Japan
    • NIMS Tsukuba
    • National Institute for Materials Science, Research Center for Functional Materials, Japan
    • Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan
    • National Institute for Materials Science: Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, JP
    • National Institue for Material Science
    • National Institute for Materials Science,1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, 305-0044, Japan
    • Materials, NIMS
    • Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan, Research Center for Functional Materials, National In
    • Research Center for Functional Materials, Japan
    • International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science
    • International Center for Materials nanoarchtectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, 305-0044, Japan
    • NIMS Suguba
    • NIMS, Tsukuba, Japan
    • National Institute for Materials Science, Namiki 1-1, Tsukuba, 305-0044, Ibaraki, Japan
    • National institute of material science
    • Advanced Materials Laboratory, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, 305-0044, Japan
    • Advanced Materials Laboratory, NIMS
    • Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, Ibaraki, Japan
    • National Institute for Materials Science, Research Center for Functional Materials
    • National Institute of Material Science, Japan
    • Tsukuba, National Institute for Materials Science

  • Takashi Taniguchi

    • National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
    • National Institute for Materials Science
    • Department of Chemical Engineering, Kyoto University
    • National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
    • International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan
    • Materials, NIMS
    • International Center for Materials Anorthite, National Institute for Materials Science, Ibaraki, Japan
    • Kyoto University

  • Martin E Huber

    • Denver, University of Colorado

  • Andrea Young

    • Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
    • University of California, Santa Barbara