Strange Metal in Magic-Angle Graphene with near Planckian Dissipation.


Journal

Physical review letters
ISSN: 1079-7114
Titre abrégé: Phys Rev Lett
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0401141

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
21 Feb 2020
Historique:
received: 12 11 2019
accepted: 23 12 2019
entrez: 7 3 2020
pubmed: 7 3 2020
medline: 7 3 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Recent experiments on magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene have discovered correlated insulating behavior and superconductivity at a fractional filling of an isolated narrow band. Here we show that magic-angle bilayer graphene exhibits another hallmark of strongly correlated systems-a broad regime of T-linear resistivity above a small density-dependent crossover temperature-for a range of fillings near the correlated insulator. This behavior is reminiscent of similar behavior in other strongly correlated systems, often denoted "strange metals," such as cuprates, iron pnictides, ruthenates, and cobaltates, where the observations are at odds with expectations in a weakly interacting Fermi liquid. We also extract a transport "scattering rate," which satisfies a near Planckian form that is universally related to the ratio of (k_{B}T/ℏ). Our results establish magic-angle bilayer graphene as a highly tunable platform to investigate strange metal behavior, which could shed light on this mysterious ubiquitous phase of correlated matter.

Identifiants

pubmed: 32142336
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.076801
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

076801

Auteurs

Yuan Cao (Y)

Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.

Debanjan Chowdhury (D)

Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.

Daniel Rodan-Legrain (D)

Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.

Oriol Rubies-Bigorda (O)

Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.

Kenji Watanabe (K)

National Institute for Materials Science, Namiki 1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan.

Takashi Taniguchi (T)

National Institute for Materials Science, Namiki 1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan.

T Senthil (T)

Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (P)

Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.

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