Electric field-tunable layer polarization in graphene/boron nitride twisted quadrilayer superlattices
arXiv:2209.10636 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.106.205134
Abstract
The recently observed unconventional ferroelectricity in AB bilayer graphene sandwiched by hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) presents a new platform to manipulate correlated phases in multilayered van der Waals heterostructures. We present a low-energy continuum model for AB bilayer graphene encapsulated by the top and bottom layers of either hBN or graphene, with two independent twist angles. For the graphene/hBN heterostructures, we show that twist angle asymmetry leads to a layer polarization of the valence and conduction bands. We also show that an out-of-plane displacement field not only tunes the layer polarization but also flattens the low-energy bands. We extend the model to show that the electronic structures of quadrilayer graphene heterostructure consisting of AB bilayer graphene encapsulated by the top and bottom graphene layers can similarly be tuned by an external electric field.
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