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Magnetism of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene
by Javad Vahedi, Robert Peters, Ahmed Missaoui, Andreas Honecker, Guy Trambly de Laissardière
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| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Andreas Honecker · Robert Peters · Guy Trambly de Laissardière |
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| Preprint Link: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.10694v2 (pdf) |
| Date accepted: | 2021-09-02 |
| Date submitted: | 2021-08-18 07:54 |
| Submitted by: | Honecker, Andreas |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approaches: | Theoretical, Computational |
Abstract
We investigate magnetic instabilities in charge-neutral twisted bilayer graphene close to so-called "magic angles" using a combination of real-space Hartree-Fock and dynamical mean-field theories. In view of the large size of the unit cell close to magic angles, we examine a previously proposed rescaling that permits to mimic the same underlying flat minibands at larger twist angles. We find that localized magnetic states emerge for values of the Coulomb interaction $U$ that are significantly smaller than what would be required to render an isolated layer antiferromagnetic. However, this effect is overestimated in the rescaled system, hinting at a complex interplay of flatness of the minibands close to the Fermi level and the spatial extent of the corresponding localized states. Our findings shed new light on perspectives for experimental realization of magnetic states in charge-neutral twisted bilayer graphene.
Author comments upon resubmission
List of changes
1) Content of the sentence "Note that Ref. [40] suggested that the on-site Coulomb interaction should scale in the same way as the intralayer hopping parameters, $U' = \Lambda\,U$" moved from the beginning of section 5 to section 3.
2) Replaced Fig. 2(b), and cleaned up the related discussion of decoupled layers.
3) Added a "the range" to the DMFT critical value of $U$ in the second paragraph of section 4.2.
4) Added "Lines are guides to the eye" to the caption of Fig 4 and "thus limiting DMFT not only to the rescaled system, but also the number of $U$-values considered" at the end of the second paragraph of section 4.2.
5) Fixed aspect ratio of Fig. 1(a) and removed unnecessary reference to moiré length.
6) Outlier specification for Fig. 2(b) corrected to $U/t_0'=2.4$.
7) Updated references.
8) Added two references (new Refs. [18,54]).
Published as SciPost Phys. 11, 083 (2021)
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