Imaging supermoiré relaxation in helical trilayer graphene
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| author | Hoke, Jesse C. Li, Yifan Hu, Yuwen May-Mann, Julian Watanabe, Kenji Taniguchi, Takashi Devakul, Trithep Feldman, Benjamin E. |
| author_facet | Hoke, Jesse C. Li, Yifan Hu, Yuwen May-Mann, Julian Watanabe, Kenji Taniguchi, Takashi Devakul, Trithep Feldman, Benjamin E. |
| contents | In twisted van der Waals materials, local atomic relaxation can alter the underlying electronic structure. Characterizing lattice reconstruction and its susceptibility to strain is essential for understanding emergent electronic states, especially in multilayers in which interference between moiré lattices yields larger supermoiré patterns whose energy is highly sensitive to local stacking. Here we image spatial modulations in the electronic character of helical trilayer graphene, which indicate relaxation into a superstructure of large domains with uniform moiré periodicity. We show that the supermoiré domain size is increased by strain and can be altered in the same device while preserving the local properties within each domain. Finally, we observe a higher conductance at the domain boundaries, consistent with predictions that they host counter-propagating edge modes. Our work provides a real-space visualization of moiré-periodic domains, reveals two independently tunable length scales and demonstrates strain engineering as a route towards designing correlated topological networks at the supermoiré scale. |
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| spellingShingle | Imaging supermoiré relaxation in helical trilayer graphene Hoke, Jesse C. Li, Yifan Hu, Yuwen May-Mann, Julian Watanabe, Kenji Taniguchi, Takashi Devakul, Trithep Feldman, Benjamin E. Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Strongly Correlated Electrons In twisted van der Waals materials, local atomic relaxation can alter the underlying electronic structure. Characterizing lattice reconstruction and its susceptibility to strain is essential for understanding emergent electronic states, especially in multilayers in which interference between moiré lattices yields larger supermoiré patterns whose energy is highly sensitive to local stacking. Here we image spatial modulations in the electronic character of helical trilayer graphene, which indicate relaxation into a superstructure of large domains with uniform moiré periodicity. We show that the supermoiré domain size is increased by strain and can be altered in the same device while preserving the local properties within each domain. Finally, we observe a higher conductance at the domain boundaries, consistent with predictions that they host counter-propagating edge modes. Our work provides a real-space visualization of moiré-periodic domains, reveals two independently tunable length scales and demonstrates strain engineering as a route towards designing correlated topological networks at the supermoiré scale. |
| title | Imaging supermoiré relaxation in helical trilayer graphene |
| topic | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.16269 |