TY - JOUR
T1 - Magic-angle twisted symmetric trilayer graphene as a topological heavy-fermion problem
AU - Yu, Jiabin
AU - Xie, Ming
AU - Bernevig, B. Andrei
AU - Das Sarma, Sankar
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 American Physical Society
PY - 2023/7/15
Y1 - 2023/7/15
N2 - Recently, Song and Bernevig [ Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 047601 (2022)0031-9007 10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.047601 ] reformulated magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene as a topological heavy fermion problem, and used this reformulation to provide a deeper understanding for the correlated phases at integer fillings. In this work, we generalize this heavy-fermion paradigm to magic-angle twisted symmetric trilayer graphene, and propose a low-energy Formula Presented model that reformulates magic-angle twisted symmetric trilayer graphene as heavy localized Formula Presented modes coupled to itinerant topological semimetalic Formula Presented modes and itinerant Dirac Formula Presented modes. Our Formula Presented model well reproduces the single-particle band structure of magic-angle twisted symmetric trilayer graphene at low energies for displacement field Formula Presented. By performing Hartree-Fock calculations with the Formula Presented model for Formula Presented electrons per Moiré unit cell, we reproduce all the correlated ground states obtained from the previous numerical Hartree-Fock calculations with the Bistritzer-MacDonald-type model, and we find additional new correlated ground states at high displacement field. Based on the numerical results, we propose a simple rule for the ground states at high displacement fields by using the Formula Presented model, and provide analytical derivation for the rule at charge neutrality. We also provide analytical symmetry arguments for the (nearly) degenerate energies of the high-Formula Presented ground states at all the integer fillings of interest, and make experimental predictions of which charge-neutral states are stabilized in magnetic fields. Our Formula Presented model provides a new perspective for understanding the correlated phenomena in magic-angle twisted symmetric trilayer graphene, suggesting that the heavy fermion paradigm of Song and Bernevig [ Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 047601 (2022)0031-9007 10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.047601 ] should be the generic underpinning of correlated physics in multilayer moire graphene structures.
AB - Recently, Song and Bernevig [ Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 047601 (2022)0031-9007 10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.047601 ] reformulated magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene as a topological heavy fermion problem, and used this reformulation to provide a deeper understanding for the correlated phases at integer fillings. In this work, we generalize this heavy-fermion paradigm to magic-angle twisted symmetric trilayer graphene, and propose a low-energy Formula Presented model that reformulates magic-angle twisted symmetric trilayer graphene as heavy localized Formula Presented modes coupled to itinerant topological semimetalic Formula Presented modes and itinerant Dirac Formula Presented modes. Our Formula Presented model well reproduces the single-particle band structure of magic-angle twisted symmetric trilayer graphene at low energies for displacement field Formula Presented. By performing Hartree-Fock calculations with the Formula Presented model for Formula Presented electrons per Moiré unit cell, we reproduce all the correlated ground states obtained from the previous numerical Hartree-Fock calculations with the Bistritzer-MacDonald-type model, and we find additional new correlated ground states at high displacement field. Based on the numerical results, we propose a simple rule for the ground states at high displacement fields by using the Formula Presented model, and provide analytical derivation for the rule at charge neutrality. We also provide analytical symmetry arguments for the (nearly) degenerate energies of the high-Formula Presented ground states at all the integer fillings of interest, and make experimental predictions of which charge-neutral states are stabilized in magnetic fields. Our Formula Presented model provides a new perspective for understanding the correlated phenomena in magic-angle twisted symmetric trilayer graphene, suggesting that the heavy fermion paradigm of Song and Bernevig [ Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 047601 (2022)0031-9007 10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.047601 ] should be the generic underpinning of correlated physics in multilayer moire graphene structures.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevB.108.035129
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevB.108.035129
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85165627426
SN - 2469-9950
VL - 108
JO - Physical Review B
JF - Physical Review B
IS - 3
M1 - 035129
ER -