Electronic Compressibility of Magic-Angle Graphene Superlattices
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Author(s) • • • •
Tomarken, Spencer Louis
Cao, Yuan
Demir, Ahmet
Jarillo-Herrero, Pablo
Ashoori, Raymond
Date Issued
July 2019
Journal
Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society (APS)
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Tomarken, S. L. et al. “Electronic Compressibility of Magic-Angle Graphene Superlattices.” Physical Review Letters, 123, 4 (July 2019): 046601 © 2019 The Author(s)
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Abstract
We report the first electronic compressibility measurements of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene. The evolution of the compressibility with carrier density offers insights into the interaction-driven ground state that have not been accessible in prior transport and tunneling studies. From capacitance measurements, we determine the chemical potential as a function of carrier density and find the widths of the energy gaps at fractional filling of the moiré lattice. In the electron-doped regime, we observe unexpectedly large gaps at quarter- and half-filling and strong electron-hole asymmetry. Moreover, we measure a ∼35 meV minibandwidth that is much wider than most theoretical estimates. Finally, we explore the field dependence up to the quantum Hall regime and observe significant differences from transport measurements.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.123.046601