Direct magnetic imaging of fractional Chern insulators in twisted MoTe$_2$ with a superconducting sensor
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| author | Redekop, Evgeny Zhang, Canxun Park, Heonjoon Cai, Jiaqi Anderson, Eric Sheekey, Owen Arp, Trevor Babikyan, Grigory Salters, Samuel Watanabe, Kenji Taniguchi, Takashi Xu, Xiaodong Young, Andrea F. |
| author_facet | Redekop, Evgeny Zhang, Canxun Park, Heonjoon Cai, Jiaqi Anderson, Eric Sheekey, Owen Arp, Trevor Babikyan, Grigory Salters, Samuel Watanabe, Kenji Taniguchi, Takashi Xu, Xiaodong Young, Andrea F. |
| contents | In the absence of time reversal symmetry, orbital magnetization provides a sensitive probe of topology and interactions, with particularly rich phenomenology in Chern insulators where topological edge states carry large equilibrium currents. Here, we use a nanoscale superconducting sensor to map the magnetic fringe fields in twisted bilayers of MoTe$_2$, where transport and optical sensing experiments have revealed the formation of fractional Chern insulator (FCI) states at zero magnetic field. At a temperature of 1.6K, we observe oscillations in the local magnetic field associated with fillings $ν=-1,-2/3,-3/5,-4/7$ and $-5/9$ of the first moiré hole band, consistent with the formation of FCIs at these fillings. By quantitatively reconstructing the magnetization, we determine the local thermodynamic gaps of the most robust FCI state at $ν=-2/3$, finding $^{-2/3}Δ$ as large as 7 meV. Spatial mapping of the charge density- and displacement field-tuned magnetic phase diagram further allows us to characterize sample disorder, which we find to be dominated by both inhomogeneity in the effective unit cell area as well as inhomogeneity in the band edge offset and bound dipole moment. Our results highlight both the challenges posed by structural disorder in the study of twisted homobilayer moiré systems and the opportunities afforded by the remarkably robust nature of the underlying correlated topological states. |
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| spellingShingle | Direct magnetic imaging of fractional Chern insulators in twisted MoTe$_2$ with a superconducting sensor Redekop, Evgeny Zhang, Canxun Park, Heonjoon Cai, Jiaqi Anderson, Eric Sheekey, Owen Arp, Trevor Babikyan, Grigory Salters, Samuel Watanabe, Kenji Taniguchi, Takashi Xu, Xiaodong Young, Andrea F. Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics In the absence of time reversal symmetry, orbital magnetization provides a sensitive probe of topology and interactions, with particularly rich phenomenology in Chern insulators where topological edge states carry large equilibrium currents. Here, we use a nanoscale superconducting sensor to map the magnetic fringe fields in twisted bilayers of MoTe$_2$, where transport and optical sensing experiments have revealed the formation of fractional Chern insulator (FCI) states at zero magnetic field. At a temperature of 1.6K, we observe oscillations in the local magnetic field associated with fillings $ν=-1,-2/3,-3/5,-4/7$ and $-5/9$ of the first moiré hole band, consistent with the formation of FCIs at these fillings. By quantitatively reconstructing the magnetization, we determine the local thermodynamic gaps of the most robust FCI state at $ν=-2/3$, finding $^{-2/3}Δ$ as large as 7 meV. Spatial mapping of the charge density- and displacement field-tuned magnetic phase diagram further allows us to characterize sample disorder, which we find to be dominated by both inhomogeneity in the effective unit cell area as well as inhomogeneity in the band edge offset and bound dipole moment. Our results highlight both the challenges posed by structural disorder in the study of twisted homobilayer moiré systems and the opportunities afforded by the remarkably robust nature of the underlying correlated topological states. |
| title | Direct magnetic imaging of fractional Chern insulators in twisted MoTe$_2$ with a superconducting sensor |
| topic | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.10269 |