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Isospin competitions and valley polarized correlated insulators in twisted double bilayer graphene.

Le LiuShihao ZhangYanbang ChuGuangyu ZhangYuan HuangYalong YuanJinpeng TianJian TangYiru JiRong YangKenji WatanabeTakashi TaniguchiDongxia ShiJianpeng LiuWei YangGuangyu Zhang
Published in: Nature communications (2022)
New phase of matter usually emerges when a given symmetry breaks spontaneously, which can involve charge, spin, and valley degree of freedoms. Here, we report an observation of new correlated insulators evolved from spin-polarized states to valley-polarized states in twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG) driven by the displacement field (D). At a high field |D | > 0.7 V/nm, we observe valley polarized correlated insulators with a big Zeeman g factor of ~10, both at v = 2 in the moiré conduction band and more surprisingly at v = -2 in the moiré valence band. Moreover, we observe a valley polarized Chern insulator with C = 2 emanating at v = 2 in the electron side and a valley polarized Fermi surface around v = -2 in the hole side. Our results demonstrate a feasible way to realize isospin control and to obtain new phases of matter in TDBG by the displacement field, and might benefit other twisted or non-twisted multilayer systems.
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