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Condensed Matter Seminar: Magic Angle Bilayer Graphene - Screening, Strange Metals and Magnetic Josephson Junctions
Speaker Prof. Dmitri Efetov, ICFO Barcelona
Date 6 October 2021 (Wednesday)
Time 15:00 - 16:30
Venue Zoom (online)
Abstract
 

When twisted close to a magic relative orientation angle near 1 degree, bilayer graphene has flat moire superlattice minibands that have emerged as a rich and highly tunable source of strong correlation physics, notably the appearance of superconductivity close to interaction-induced insulating states. Here we report on the fabrication of bilayer graphene devices with exceptionally uniform twist angles. We show that the reduction in twist angle disorder reveals insulating states at all integer occupancies of the four-fold spin/valley degenerate flat conduction and valence bands, i.e. at moire band filling factors nu = 0, +(-) 1, +(-) 2, +(-) 3, and reveals new superconductivity regions below critical temperatures as high as 3 K close to - 2 filling. In addition we find novel orbital magnetic states with non-zero Chern numbers. Our study shows that symmetry-broken states, interaction driven insulators, and superconducting domes, strange metals are common across the entire moire flat bands, including near charge neutrality. We further will discuss recent experiments including screened interactions, and gate induced Josephson junctions.

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DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS