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Dynamical correlation effects in twisted bilayer graphene under strain and lattice relaxation

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19436v1
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 18:00:02 GMT
Title: Dynamical correlation effects in twisted bilayer graphene under strain and lattice relaxation
Authors: Lorenzo Crippa, Gautam Rai, Dumitru Călugăru, Haoyu Hu, Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman, B. Andrei Bernevig, Roser Valentí, Giorgio Sangiovanni, Tim Wehling,
Abstract summary: We study the impact of lattice effects due to heterostrain and relaxation on the correlated electron physics of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene.<n>The interplay of dynamical correlation effects and lattice symmetry breaking enables us to satisfactorily reproduce a wide set of experimentally observed features.
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Abstract: We study the impact of lattice effects due to heterostrain and relaxation on the correlated electron physics of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene, by applying dynamical mean-field theory to the topological heavy fermion model. Heterostrain is responsible for splitting the 8-fold degenerate flat bands into two 4-fold degenerate subsets, while relaxation breaks the particle-hole symmetry of the unperturbed THF model. The interplay of dynamical correlation effects and lattice symmetry breaking enables us to satisfactorily reproduce a wide set of experimentally observed features: splitting the flat band degeneracy has observable consequences in the form of a filling-independent maximum in the spectral density away from zero bias, which faithfully reproduces scanning tunneling microscopy and quantum twisting microscopy results alike. We also observe an overall reduction in the size and degeneracy of local moments upon lowering the temperature, in agreement with entropy measurements. The absence of particle-hole symmetry has as a consequence the stronger suppression of local moments on the hole-doped side relatively to the electron-doped side, and ultimately causes the differences in existence and stability of the correlated phases for negative and positive doping. Our results show that even fine-level structures in the experimental data can now be faithfully reproduced and understood.

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