Attractive electron-electron interactions from internal screening in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene
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Author(s)
Goodwin, zachary
Corsetti, fabiano
Mostofi, Arash
Lischner, johannes
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) has recently emerged as a new platform for studying electroncorrelations, the strength of which can be controlled via the twist angle. Here, we study the effectof internal screening on electron-electron interactions in undoped tBLG. Using the random phaseapproximation, we find that the dielectric response of tBLG drastically increases near the magicangle and is highly twist-angle dependent. As a consequence of the abrupt change of the Fermivelocity as a function of wave vector, the screened interaction in real space exhibits attractiveregions for certain twist angles near the magic angle. Attractive interactions can induce chargedensity waves and superconductivity and therefore our findings could be relevant to understand themicroscopic origins of the recently observed strong correlation phenomena in undoped tBLG. Theresulting screened Hubbard parameters are strongly reduced and exhibit a non-linear dependence onthe twist angle. We also carry out calculations with the constrained random phase approximationand parametrize a twist-angle dependent Keldysh model for the resulting effective interaction.
Date Issued
2019-12-15
Date Acceptance
2019-11-20
Citation
Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 2019, 100 (23)
ISSN
1098-0121
Publisher
American Physical Society
Journal / Book Title
Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Volume
100
Issue
23
Copyright Statement
©2019 American Physical Society
Sponsor
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Identifier
https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.100.235424
Grant Number
EP/L015579/1
EP/S025324/1
EPSRC (EP/L015579/1)
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Physical Sciences
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Physics, Applied
Physics, Condensed Matter
Materials Science
Physics
MOIRE BANDS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2019-12-12