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Global Phase Diagram of the Normal State of Twisted Bilayer Graphene

arXiv:2109.09749 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.156401

Abstract

We investigate the full doping and strain-dependent phase diagram of the normal state of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG). Using comprehensive Hartree-Fock calculations, we show that at temperatures where superconductivity is absent the global phase structure can be understood based on the competition and coexistence between three types of intertwined orders: a fully symmetric phase, spatially uniform flavor-symmetry-breaking states, and an incommensurate Kekulé spiral (IKS) order. For small strain, the IKS phase, recently proposed as a candidate order at all non-zero integer fillings of the moiré unit cell, is found to be ubiquitous for non-integer doping as well. We demonstrate that the corresponding electronic compressibility and Fermi surface structure are consistent with the 'cascade' physics and Landau fans observed experimentally. This suggests a unified picture of the phase diagram of TBG in terms of IKS order.

4+3 pages main text, 6 pages supplement (2 figures main text, 10 figures supplement), accepted version

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