Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

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

  • Le Liu,
  • Shihao Zhang,
  • Yanbang Chu,
  • Cheng Shen,
  • Yuan Huang,
  • Yalong Yuan,
  • Jinpeng Tian,
  • Jian Tang,
  • Yiru Ji,
  • Rong Yang,
  • Kenji Watanabe,
  • Takashi Taniguchi,
  • Dongxia Shi,
  • Jianpeng Liu,
  • Wei Yang,
  • Guangyu Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30998-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Previous studies of twisted double bilayer graphene have been limited to AB-AB stacking, featuring spin-polarized correlated insulators. Here, the authors fabricate AB-BA devices and report a competition between spin and valley polarization, along with the emergence of valley-polarized correlated insulators tuned by electric field.