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Emergent magnetic texture in driven twisted bilayer graphene

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2020-07-28 v2

Abstract

The transport properties of a twisted bilayer graphene barrier are investigated for various twist angles. Remarkably, for small twist angles around the magic angle θm1.05\theta_m \sim 1.05^{\circ}, the local currents around the AA-stacked regions are strongly enhanced compared to the injected electron rate. Furthermore, the total and counterflow (magnetic) current patterns show high correlations in these regions, given rise to well-defined magnetic moments that form a magnetic Moir\'e superlattice. The orientation and magnitude of these magnetic moments changes as function of the gate voltage and possible implications for emergent spin-liquid behaviour are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1909.09341,
  title  = {Emergent magnetic texture in driven twisted bilayer graphene},
  author = {D. A. Bahamon and G. Gómez-Santos and T. Stauber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.09341},
  year   = {2020}
}

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18 pages, 20 figures

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