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The nature of correlations in the insulating states of twisted bilayer graphene

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العنوان: The nature of correlations in the insulating states of twisted bilayer graphene
المؤلفون: Pizarro, José María, Calderón, M.J., Bascones, Elena
المساهمون: Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (España), Fundación Ramón Areces
بيانات النشر: IOP Publishing
سنة النشر: 2019
المجموعة: Digital.CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas / Spanish National Research Council)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Mott insulator, Correlations, Moiré, Twisted bilayer graphene
الوصف: [EN] The recently observed superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene emerges from insulating states believed to arise from electronic correlations. While there have been many proposals to explain the insulating behaviour, the commensurability at which these states appear suggests that they are Mott insulators. Here we focus on the insulating states with ±2 electrons or holes with respect to the charge neutrality point. We show that the theoretical expectations for the Mott insulating states are not compatible with the experimentally observed dependence on temperature and magnetic field if, as frequently assumed, only the correlations between electrons on the same site are included. We argue that the inclusion of non-local (inter-site) correlations in the treatment of the Hubbard model can bring the predictions for the magnetic and temperature dependencies of the Mott transition to an agreement with experiments and have consequences for the critical interactions, the size of the gap, and possible pseudogap physics. The importance of the inter-site correlations to explain the experimental observations indicates that the observed insulating gap is not the one between the Hubbard bands and that antiferromagnetic-like correlations play a key role in the Mott transition. ; Funding from Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (Spain) and FEDER funds via grants No. FIS2014-53218-P and FIS2015-64654-P, and from Fundación Ramón Areces is gratefully acknowledged.
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Relation: #PLACEHOLDER_PARENT_METADATA_VALUE#; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2013-2016/FIS2014-53218-P; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2013-2016/FIS2015-64654-P; Publisher's version; https://doi.org/10.1088/2399-6528/ab0fa9; Sí; e-issn: 2399-6528; Journal of Physics Communications 3: 035024 (2019); http://hdl.handle.net/10261/210519; http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100010198; http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100008054
DOI: 10.1088/2399-6528/ab0fa9
DOI: 10.13039/501100010198
DOI: 10.13039/100008054
الاتاحة: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/210519
https://doi.org/10.1088/2399-6528/ab0fa9
https://doi.org/10.13039/501100010198
https://doi.org/10.13039/100008054
Rights: open
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.C5DC7F6B
قاعدة البيانات: BASE
الوصف
DOI:10.1088/2399-6528/ab0fa9