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Condensed Matter > Strongly Correlated Electrons

Title: Strain-induced quantum phase transitions in magic angle graphene

Abstract: We investigate the effect of uniaxial heterostrain on the interacting phase diagram of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene. Using both self-consistent Hartree-Fock and density-matrix renormalization group calculations, we find that small strain values ($\epsilon \sim 0.1 - 0.2 \%$) drive a zero-temperature phase transition between the symmetry-broken Kramers intervalley-coherent insulator and a nematic semi-metal. The critical strain lies within the range of experimentally observed strain values, and we therefore predict that strain is at least partly responsible for the sample-dependent experimental observations.
Subjects: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
Journal reference: Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 027601 (2021)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.027601
Cite as: arXiv:2012.09885 [cond-mat.str-el]
  (or arXiv:2012.09885v1 [cond-mat.str-el] for this version)

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From: Nick Bultinck [view email]
[v1] Thu, 17 Dec 2020 19:09:21 GMT (5136kb,D)

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