Engineering heavy fermions in twisted graphene multilayers
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Abstract
Twisted van der Waals materials have been shown to host a variety of tunable electronic structures. Here we put forward twisted graphene multilayers as a platform to emulate heavy fermion physics. In particular, we demonstrate that twisted graphene trilayer hosts extended and localized modes with an electronic structure that can be controlled by interlayer bias. In the presence of interactions, the existence of localized modes leads to the development of local moments, which are Kondo coupled to coexisting extended states. By electrically controlling the effective exchange between local moments, the system can be driven from a magnetic into a heavy fermion regime, passing through a quantum critical point. Our results put forward twisted graphene multilayers as a platform for the realization of strongly correlated heavy fermion physics in a purely carbon-based platform.
*A. R. acknowledges the financial support from SNSF Ambizione. J. L. L. acknowledges the computational resources provided by the Aalto Science IT project, the financial support from the Academy of Finland Projects No. 331342 and No. 336243, and the Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation.
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Publication: Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 026401 (2021)
Presenters
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Jose Lado
- Aalto University