| Description: | Title: Tunable valley ordering and Fermi surface reconstructions in a moiré magnet. Abstract: Interlayer interactions in van der Waals materials are pivotal in stabilizing electronic phases. Notably, the 'magic' rotation of two graphene layers has recently emerged as a versatile platform for manipulating interlayer hybridization. This significantly modifies the band structure, resulting in a superlattice with extremely flat bands at low energies. Such flat bands, characterized by a high density of states and strong Coulomb repulsion, give rise to diverse correlated phases in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG), ranging from insulating to superconducting and magnetic states. Despite its unprecedented tunability, a complete understanding of the observed phases in MATBG remains elusive. In this talk, I will briefly overview various twisted graphene-based moiré superlattices developed in the years following the discovery of MATBG. Subsequently, I will present our recent findings from magneto-transport measurements on MATBG proximitized by a tungsten diselenide layer, introducing finite spin-orbit coupling. Our primary results reveal an anomalous Hall effect near half-filling (ν = 2), coupled with an abrupt switching of magnetization tunable by carrier density. Near ν = 2, we observe Fermi surface reconstructions in the zero-magnetic field limit, evolving into a quantized Chern insulator precisely at ν = 2 with increasing magnetic field. These intriguing results collectively suggest that the bands are valley-polarized and malleable near ν = 2, stabilized by spin-orbit coupling. In the end, I will briefly mention our ongoing work, exploring the malleability of the bands through time-reversal symmetric nonlinear transport measurements. References: Bhowmik et al., Spin-orbit coupling-enhanced valley ordering of malleable bands in twisted bilayer graphene on WSe2. Nat Commun 14, 4055 (2023). Bhowmik, Ghosh, and Chandni. "Emergent phases in graphene flat bands" Preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.08938. |
| Confirmation status: | Confirmed |
| Room: | Physics Dept - Physics Seminar Room |
| Start time: | 04:30:00pm - Friday 12 January 2024 |
| Duration: | 1.5 hours |
| End time: | 06:00:00pm - Friday 12 January 2024 |
| Type: | Internal |
| Created by: | kdasgupta |
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| Last updated: | 07:00:55pm - Wednesday 10 January 2024 |
| Repeat type: | None |