Strongly enhanced tunneling at total charge neutrality in double bilayer graphene-WSe${}_2$ heterostructures

Abstract

We report the experimental observation of strongly enhanced tunneling between graphene bilayers through a WSe${}_2$ barrier when the graphene bilayers are populated with carriers of opposite polarity and equal density. The enhanced tunneling increases sharply in strength with decreasing temperature, and the tunneling current exhibits a vertical onset as a function of interlayer voltage at a temperature of 1.5 K. The strongly enhanced tunneling at overall neutrality departs markedly from single-particle model calculations that otherwise match the measured tunneling current-voltage characteristics well, and suggests the emergence of a many-body state with condensed interbilayer excitons when electrons and holes of equal densities populate the two layers.

5 pages, 5 figures, two supplementary figures