Interaction-induced velocity renormalization in magic-angle twisted multilayer graphene

Laura Classen, J. H. Pixley, Elio J. König

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Abstract

Twistronics heterostructures provide a novel route to control the electronic single particle velocity and thereby to engineer strong effective interactions. Here we show that the reverse may also hold, i.e. that these interactions strongly renormalize the band structure. We demonstrate this mechanism for alternating-twist magic-angle three- and four-layer graphene at charge neutrality and in the vicinity of a phase transition which can be described by an Ising Gross-Neveu critical point corresponding, e.g. to the onset of valley Hall or Hall order. While the non-interacting model displays massless Dirac excitations with strongly different velocities, we show that interaction corrections make them equal in the infrared. However, the renormalization group flow of the velocities and of the coupling to the critical bosonic mode is strongly non-monotonic and dominated by the vicinity of a repulsive fixed point. We predict experimental consequences of this theory for tunneling and transport experiments and discuss the expected behavior at other quantum critical points, including those corresponding to intervalley coherent ordering.

Original languageEnglish
Article number031001
Journal2D Materials
Volume9
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2022
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • graphene
  • magic-angle
  • twisted
  • twisttronics
  • velocity renormalization

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