材料科学技术(英文版)2022,Vol.111Issue(16) :28-34.

Magic angles and flat Chern bands in alternating-twist multilayer graphene system

Zhiyong Liu Wenyuan Shi Teng Yang Zhidong Zhang
材料科学技术(英文版)2022,Vol.111Issue(16) :28-34.

Magic angles and flat Chern bands in alternating-twist multilayer graphene system

Zhiyong Liu 1Wenyuan Shi 2Teng Yang 1Zhidong Zhang1
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作者信息

  • 1. Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science,Institute of Metal Research,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Shenyang 110016,China;School of Materials Science and Engineering,University of Science and Technology of China,Shenyang 110016,China
  • 2. Western Reserve Academy,115 College Street Hudson,Ohio 44236,United States
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Abstract

Based on the effective continuum model,we study alternating-twist multilayer graphene system and emergence of magic angles and flat band topology.All the alternating-twist multilayer graphene sys-tem(from triple layers to few layers)are found to have flat bands at magic angles where the area of AA stacking equals n-fold(n is an integer)electron cyclotron area.From the pseudo-Landau-level represen-tation,there is always an isolated Dirac band in the alternating-twist graphene system constructed by odd number of layers.Since each pair of flat bands can be perceived as the zeroth pseudo-Landau-levels in two dimensional Dirac fermions,electron in the flat band pair can feel a pseudo-magnetic field with the same magnitude but the opposite sign.Calculated Chern number for each flat band is+1(or-1)which can be tuned by twisting in the vicinity of magic angles or by gating.The concurrent appearance of strong correlation and band topology of flat bands in the alternating-twist multilayer graphene may pave an avenue for the new understanding of superconductivity observed in triple-layered graphene,and supply a new playground for realizing(quantum)anomalous Hall effect.

Key words

Alternating-twist multilayer graphene/Magic angle/Flat band/Band topology

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基金项目

国家自然科学基金(52031014)

Ministry of Sci-ence and Technology of China(2017YFA0206301)

Liaoning Provincial Natural Science Fund(2021-MS-006)

出版年

2022
材料科学技术(英文版)
中国金属学会 中国材料研究学会 中国科学院金属研究所

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