Imaging inter-valley coherent order in magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene.


Journal

Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Nov 2023
Historique:
received: 05 05 2023
accepted: 21 09 2023
medline: 1 12 2023
pubmed: 16 11 2023
entrez: 15 11 2023
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene (MATTG) exhibits a range of strongly correlated electronic phases that spontaneously break its underlying symmetries

Identifiants

pubmed: 37968401
doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06663-8
pii: 10.1038/s41586-023-06663-8
doi:

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Journal Article

Langues

eng

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IM

Pagination

942-948

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© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.

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Auteurs

Hyunjin Kim (H)

Thomas J. Watson, Sr, Laboratories of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA. hyunjin@caltech.edu.
Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA. hyunjin@caltech.edu.
Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA. hyunjin@caltech.edu.

Youngjoon Choi (Y)

Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.

Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise (É)

Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.

Cyprian Lewandowski (C)

Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, FL, USA.
Department of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA.

Alex Thomson (A)

Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA.

Lingyuan Kong (L)

Thomas J. Watson, Sr, Laboratories of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.

Haoxin Zhou (H)

Thomas J. Watson, Sr, Laboratories of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.

Eli Baum (E)

Thomas J. Watson, Sr, Laboratories of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.

Yiran Zhang (Y)

Thomas J. Watson, Sr, Laboratories of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.

Ludwig Holleis (L)

Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.

Kenji Watanabe (K)

Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA.

Takashi Taniguchi (T)

National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.

Andrea F Young (AF)

National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.

Jason Alicea (J)

Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.

Stevan Nadj-Perge (S)

Thomas J. Watson, Sr, Laboratories of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA. s.nadj-perge@caltech.edu.
Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA. s.nadj-perge@caltech.edu.

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