Strange metal behavior of the Hall angle in twisted bilayer graphene
Abstract
Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) with interlayer twist angles near the magic angle ≈ 1.08° hosts flat bands and exhibits correlated states including Mott-like insulators, superconductivity, and magnetism. Additionally, a linear-in-temperature normal state resistivity in TBG has been attributed to an exotic Planckian dissipation mechanism but can be equally well explained in terms of conventional electron-phonon scattering. To address this issue, we perform combined temperature-dependent transport measurements of both the longitudinal and Hall resistivities in near-magic-angle TBG. While the observed longitudinal resistivity follows linear temperature T dependence consistent with previous reports, the Hall resistance shows an anomalous T dependence with the cotangent of the Hall angle cot ΘH∝T2. Boltzmann theory for quasiparticle transport predicts that both the resistivity and cot ΘH should have the same T dependence, contradicting the observed behavior. This failure of quasiparticle-based theories is reminiscent of other correlated strange metals such as cuprates.
- Authors:
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- The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States)
- National Inst. for Materials Science, Tsukuba (Japan)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1853500
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0020187; DMR-1420451; DMR-2011876
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review. B
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 103; Journal Issue: 24; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; mesoscopics; bilayer films; graphene; band structure methods; Boltzmann theory; resistivity measurements; transport techniques
Citation Formats
Lyu, Rui, Tuchfeld, Zachary, Verma, Nishchhal, Tian, Haidong, Watanabe, Kenji, Taniguchi, Takashi, Lau, Chun Ning, Randeria, Mohit, and Bockrath, Marc. Strange metal behavior of the Hall angle in twisted bilayer graphene. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1103/physrevb.103.245424.
Lyu, Rui, Tuchfeld, Zachary, Verma, Nishchhal, Tian, Haidong, Watanabe, Kenji, Taniguchi, Takashi, Lau, Chun Ning, Randeria, Mohit, & Bockrath, Marc. Strange metal behavior of the Hall angle in twisted bilayer graphene. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.103.245424
Lyu, Rui, Tuchfeld, Zachary, Verma, Nishchhal, Tian, Haidong, Watanabe, Kenji, Taniguchi, Takashi, Lau, Chun Ning, Randeria, Mohit, and Bockrath, Marc. Thu .
"Strange metal behavior of the Hall angle in twisted bilayer graphene". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.103.245424. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1853500.
@article{osti_1853500,
title = {Strange metal behavior of the Hall angle in twisted bilayer graphene},
author = {Lyu, Rui and Tuchfeld, Zachary and Verma, Nishchhal and Tian, Haidong and Watanabe, Kenji and Taniguchi, Takashi and Lau, Chun Ning and Randeria, Mohit and Bockrath, Marc},
abstractNote = {Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) with interlayer twist angles near the magic angle ≈ 1.08° hosts flat bands and exhibits correlated states including Mott-like insulators, superconductivity, and magnetism. Additionally, a linear-in-temperature normal state resistivity in TBG has been attributed to an exotic Planckian dissipation mechanism but can be equally well explained in terms of conventional electron-phonon scattering. To address this issue, we perform combined temperature-dependent transport measurements of both the longitudinal and Hall resistivities in near-magic-angle TBG. While the observed longitudinal resistivity follows linear temperature T dependence consistent with previous reports, the Hall resistance shows an anomalous T dependence with the cotangent of the Hall angle cot ΘH∝T2. Boltzmann theory for quasiparticle transport predicts that both the resistivity and cot ΘH should have the same T dependence, contradicting the observed behavior. This failure of quasiparticle-based theories is reminiscent of other correlated strange metals such as cuprates.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevb.103.245424},
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number = 24,
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place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jun 17 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
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