Chiral Kondo Lattice in Doped MoTe${}_2$/WSe${}_2$ Bilayers

Abstract

We theoretically study the interplay between magnetism and a heavy Fermi liquid in the AB stacked transition metal dichalcogenide bilayer system MoTe${}_2$/WSe${}_2$ in the regime in which the Mo layer supports localized magnetic moments coupled by interlayer electron tunnelling to a weakly correlated band of itinerant electrons in the W layer. We show that the interlayer electron transfer leads to a chiral Kondo exchange, with consequences including a strong dependence of the Kondo temperature on carrier concentration, a topological hybridization gap and an anomalous Hall effect. The theoretical model exhibits two phases, a small Fermi surface magnet and a large Fermi surface heavy Fermi liquid; the transition between them is first order. A low-energy theory is developed for the the transport properties of the two states. Implications of our results for present and future experiments on MoTe${}_2$/WSe${}_2$ bilayer heterostructures are discussed.

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