Intervalley coherence and intrinsic spin-orbit coupling in rhombohedral trilayer graphene
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| author | Arp, Trevor Sheekey, Owen Zhou, Haoxin Tschirhart, C. L. Patterson, Caitlin L. Yoo, H. M. Holleis, Ludwig Redekop, Evgeny Babikyan, Grigory Xie, Tian Xiao, Jiewen Vituri, Yaar Holder, Tobias Taniguchi, Takashi Watanabe, Kenji Huber, Martin E. Berg, Erez Young, Andrea F. |
| author_facet | Arp, Trevor Sheekey, Owen Zhou, Haoxin Tschirhart, C. L. Patterson, Caitlin L. Yoo, H. M. Holleis, Ludwig Redekop, Evgeny Babikyan, Grigory Xie, Tian Xiao, Jiewen Vituri, Yaar Holder, Tobias Taniguchi, Takashi Watanabe, Kenji Huber, Martin E. Berg, Erez Young, Andrea F. |
| contents | Rhombohedral graphene multilayers provide a clean and highly reproducible platform to explore the emergence of superconductivity and magnetism in a strongly interacting electron system. Here, we use electronic compressibility and local magnetometry to explore the phase diagram of this material class in unprecedented detail. We focus on rhombohedral trilayer in the quarter metal regime, where the electronic ground state is characterized by the occupation of a single spin and valley isospin flavor. Our measurements reveal a subtle competition between valley imbalanced (VI) orbital ferromagnets and intervalley coherent (IVC) states in which electron wave functions in the two momentum space valleys develop a macroscopically coherent relative phase. Contrasting the in-plane spin susceptibility of the IVC and VI phases reveals the influence of graphene's intrinsic spin-orbit coupling, which drives the emergence of a distinct correlated phase with hybrid VI and IVC character. Spin-orbit also suppresses the in-plane magnetic susceptibility of the VI phase, which allows us to extract the spin-orbit coupling strength of $λ\approx 50μ$eV for our hexagonal boron nitride-encapsulated graphene system. We discuss the implications of finite spin-orbit coupling on the spin-triplet superconductors observed in both rhombohedral and twisted graphene multilayers. |
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| spellingShingle | Intervalley coherence and intrinsic spin-orbit coupling in rhombohedral trilayer graphene Arp, Trevor Sheekey, Owen Zhou, Haoxin Tschirhart, C. L. Patterson, Caitlin L. Yoo, H. M. Holleis, Ludwig Redekop, Evgeny Babikyan, Grigory Xie, Tian Xiao, Jiewen Vituri, Yaar Holder, Tobias Taniguchi, Takashi Watanabe, Kenji Huber, Martin E. Berg, Erez Young, Andrea F. Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Rhombohedral graphene multilayers provide a clean and highly reproducible platform to explore the emergence of superconductivity and magnetism in a strongly interacting electron system. Here, we use electronic compressibility and local magnetometry to explore the phase diagram of this material class in unprecedented detail. We focus on rhombohedral trilayer in the quarter metal regime, where the electronic ground state is characterized by the occupation of a single spin and valley isospin flavor. Our measurements reveal a subtle competition between valley imbalanced (VI) orbital ferromagnets and intervalley coherent (IVC) states in which electron wave functions in the two momentum space valleys develop a macroscopically coherent relative phase. Contrasting the in-plane spin susceptibility of the IVC and VI phases reveals the influence of graphene's intrinsic spin-orbit coupling, which drives the emergence of a distinct correlated phase with hybrid VI and IVC character. Spin-orbit also suppresses the in-plane magnetic susceptibility of the VI phase, which allows us to extract the spin-orbit coupling strength of $λ\approx 50μ$eV for our hexagonal boron nitride-encapsulated graphene system. We discuss the implications of finite spin-orbit coupling on the spin-triplet superconductors observed in both rhombohedral and twisted graphene multilayers. |
| title | Intervalley coherence and intrinsic spin-orbit coupling in rhombohedral trilayer graphene |
| topic | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03781 |