Landau Level Degeneracy in Twisted Bilayer Graphene: Role of Symmetry Breaking

Abstract

The degeneracy of Landau levels flanking charge neutrality in twisted bilayer graphene is known to change from eight-fold to four-fold when the twist angle is reduced to values near the magic angle of $\approx 1.05^{\circ }$. This degeneracy lifting has been reproduced in experiments by multiple groups, and is known to occur even in devices which do not harbor the correlated insulators and superconductors. We propose $C_3$ symmetry breaking as an explanation of such robust degeneracy lifting, and support our proposal by numerical results on the Landau level spectrum in near-magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene. Motivated by recent experiments, we further consider the effect of $C_2$ symmetry breaking on the Landau levels.

12 pages, 10 figures

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