Experimental evidence for orbital magnetic moments generated by moiré-scale current loops in twisted bilayer graphene
arXiv:1912.13133 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.102.121406
Abstract
A remarkable property of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) with small twist angle is the presence of a well-defined and conserved low-energy valley degrees of freedom1, which can potentially bring about new types of valley-associated spontaneous-symmetry breaking phases. Electron-electron (e-e) interactions in the TBG near the magic angle 1.1 degree can lift the valley degeneracy, allowing for the realization of orbital magnetism and topological phases2-11. However, direct measurement of the orbital-based magnetism in the TBG is still lacking up to now. Here we report evidence for orbital magnetic moment generated by the moire-scale current loops in a TBG with a twist angle θ ~ 1.68 degree. The valley degeneracy of the 1.68 degree TBG is removed by e-e interactions when its low-energy van Hove singularity (VHS) is nearly half filled. A large and linear response of the valley splitting to magnetic fields is observed, attributing to coupling to the large orbital magnetic moment induced by chiral current loops circulating in the moire pattern. According to our experiment, the orbital magnetic moment is about 10.7 uB per moire supercell. Our result paves the way to explore magnetism that is purely orbital in slightly twisted graphene system.
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