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Temperature-linear Resistivity in Twisted Double Bilayer Graphene

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2022-07-08 v3 Materials Science Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We report an experimental study of carrier density (n), displacement field (D) and twist angle ({\theta}) dependence of temperature (T)-linear resistivity in twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG). For a large twist angle ({\theta}>1.5{\deg}) where correlated insulating states are absent, we observe a T-linear resistivity (with the slope of the order ~10{\Omega}/K) over a wide range of carrier density and its slope decreases with increasing of n, in agreement with acoustic phonon scattering model semi-quantitatively. The slope of T-linear resistivity is non-monotonically dependent on the displacement field with a single peak structure. For device with {\theta}~1.23{\deg} at which correlated states emerge, the slope of T-linear resistivity is found maximum (~100{\Omega}/K) at the boundary of the halo structure where phase transition occurs, with signatures of continuous phase transition, Planckian dissipation, and the diverging effective mass; these observations are in line with quantum critical behaviors, which might be due to the symmetry-breaking instability at the critical points. Our results shed new light on correlated physics in TDBG and other twisted moir\'e systems.

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@article{arxiv.2104.05406,
  title  = {Temperature-linear Resistivity in Twisted Double Bilayer Graphene},
  author = {Yanbang Chu and Le Liu and Cheng Shen and Jinpeng Tian and Jian Tang and Yanchong Zhao and Jieying Liu and Yalong Yuan and Yiru Ji and Rong Yang and Kenji Watanabe and Takashi Taniguchi and Dongxia Shi and Fengcheng Wu and Wei Yang and Guangyu Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.05406},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Accepted by Phys. Rev. B, with 20 pages and 15 figures

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