Disorder-Induced Delocalization in Magic-Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene

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Hauptverfasser: Guerrero, Pedro Alcázar, Nguyen, Viet-Hung, Romeral, Jorge Martínez, Cummings, Aron W., Garcia, José-Hugo, Charlier, Jean-Christophe, Roche, Stephan
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author Guerrero, Pedro Alcázar
Nguyen, Viet-Hung
Romeral, Jorge Martínez
Cummings, Aron W.
Garcia, José-Hugo
Charlier, Jean-Christophe
Roche, Stephan
author_facet Guerrero, Pedro Alcázar
Nguyen, Viet-Hung
Romeral, Jorge Martínez
Cummings, Aron W.
Garcia, José-Hugo
Charlier, Jean-Christophe
Roche, Stephan
contents Flat bands in moiré systems are exciting new playgrounds for the generation and study of exotic many-body physics phenomena in low-dimensional materials. Such physics is attributed to the vanishing kinetic energy and strong spatial localization of the flat-band states. Here we use numerical simulations to examine the electronic transport properties of such flat bands in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene in the presence of disorder. We find that while a conventional downscaling of the mean free path with increasing disorder strength occurs at higher energies, in the flat bands the mean free path can actually increase with increasing disorder strength.This phenomenon is also captured by the disorder-dependent quantum metric, which is directly linked to the ground state localization.This disorder-induced delocalization suggests that weak disorder may have a strong impact on the exotic physics of magic-angle bilayer graphene and other related moiré systems.
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spellingShingle Disorder-Induced Delocalization in Magic-Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene
Guerrero, Pedro Alcázar
Nguyen, Viet-Hung
Romeral, Jorge Martínez
Cummings, Aron W.
Garcia, José-Hugo
Charlier, Jean-Christophe
Roche, Stephan
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Flat bands in moiré systems are exciting new playgrounds for the generation and study of exotic many-body physics phenomena in low-dimensional materials. Such physics is attributed to the vanishing kinetic energy and strong spatial localization of the flat-band states. Here we use numerical simulations to examine the electronic transport properties of such flat bands in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene in the presence of disorder. We find that while a conventional downscaling of the mean free path with increasing disorder strength occurs at higher energies, in the flat bands the mean free path can actually increase with increasing disorder strength.This phenomenon is also captured by the disorder-dependent quantum metric, which is directly linked to the ground state localization.This disorder-induced delocalization suggests that weak disorder may have a strong impact on the exotic physics of magic-angle bilayer graphene and other related moiré systems.
title Disorder-Induced Delocalization in Magic-Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08265