Correlated topological flat bands in rhombohedral graphite
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| author | Zhang, Hongyun Li, Qian Scheer, Michael G. Wang, Renqi Tuo, Chuyi Zou, Nianlong Chen, Wanying Li, Jiaheng Cai, Xuanxi Bao, Changhua Li, Ming-Rui Deng, Ke Watanabe, Kenji Taniguchi, Takashi Ye, Mao Tang, Peizhe Xu, Yong Yu, Pu Avila, Jose Dudin, Pavel Denlinger, Jonathan D. Yao, Hong Lian, Biao Duan, Wenhui Zhou, Shuyun |
| author_facet | Zhang, Hongyun Li, Qian Scheer, Michael G. Wang, Renqi Tuo, Chuyi Zou, Nianlong Chen, Wanying Li, Jiaheng Cai, Xuanxi Bao, Changhua Li, Ming-Rui Deng, Ke Watanabe, Kenji Taniguchi, Takashi Ye, Mao Tang, Peizhe Xu, Yong Yu, Pu Avila, Jose Dudin, Pavel Denlinger, Jonathan D. Yao, Hong Lian, Biao Duan, Wenhui Zhou, Shuyun |
| contents | Flat bands and nontrivial topological physics are two important topics of condensed matter physics. With a unique stacking configuration analogous to the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, rhombohedral graphite (RG) is a potential candidate for realizing both flat bands and nontrivial topological physics. Here we report experimental evidence of topological flat bands (TFBs) on the surface of bulk RG, which are topologically protected by bulk helical Dirac nodal lines via the bulk-boundary correspondence. Moreover, upon {\it in situ} electron doping, the surface TFBs show a splitting with exotic doping evolution, with an order-of-magnitude increase in the bandwidth of the lower split band, and pinning of the upper band near the Fermi level. These experimental observations together with Hartree-Fock calculations suggest that correlation effects are important in this system. Our results demonstrate RG as a new platform for investigating the rich interplay between nontrivial band topology, correlation effects, and interaction-driven symmetry-broken states. |
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| spellingShingle | Correlated topological flat bands in rhombohedral graphite Zhang, Hongyun Li, Qian Scheer, Michael G. Wang, Renqi Tuo, Chuyi Zou, Nianlong Chen, Wanying Li, Jiaheng Cai, Xuanxi Bao, Changhua Li, Ming-Rui Deng, Ke Watanabe, Kenji Taniguchi, Takashi Ye, Mao Tang, Peizhe Xu, Yong Yu, Pu Avila, Jose Dudin, Pavel Denlinger, Jonathan D. Yao, Hong Lian, Biao Duan, Wenhui Zhou, Shuyun Strongly Correlated Electrons Flat bands and nontrivial topological physics are two important topics of condensed matter physics. With a unique stacking configuration analogous to the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, rhombohedral graphite (RG) is a potential candidate for realizing both flat bands and nontrivial topological physics. Here we report experimental evidence of topological flat bands (TFBs) on the surface of bulk RG, which are topologically protected by bulk helical Dirac nodal lines via the bulk-boundary correspondence. Moreover, upon {\it in situ} electron doping, the surface TFBs show a splitting with exotic doping evolution, with an order-of-magnitude increase in the bandwidth of the lower split band, and pinning of the upper band near the Fermi level. These experimental observations together with Hartree-Fock calculations suggest that correlation effects are important in this system. Our results demonstrate RG as a new platform for investigating the rich interplay between nontrivial band topology, correlation effects, and interaction-driven symmetry-broken states. |
| title | Correlated topological flat bands in rhombohedral graphite |
| topic | Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07906 |