Observation of Interband Collective Excitations in Twisted Bilayer Graphene
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Hesp, Niels C. H.
Torre, Iacopo
Novelli, Pietro
Stepanov, Petr
Barcons-Ruiz, David
Herzig Sheinfux, Hanan
Watanabe, Kenji
Taniguchi, Takashi
Efetov, Dmitri K.
Polini, Marco
Koppens, Frank H. L.
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Hesp, Niels C. H., Iacopo Torre, Daniel Rodan-Legrain, Pietro Novelli, Yuan Cao, Stephen Carr, Shiang Fang, et al. 2021. “Observation of Interband Collective Excitations in Twisted Bilayer Graphene.” Nature Physics 17 (10): 1162–68.Abstract
The single-particle and many-body properties of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) can be dramatically 1 different from those of a single graphene layer, in particular when the two layers are rotated relative 2 to each other by a small angle ��≈��∘1–6. Here, we probe for the first time collective excitations of TBG 3 graphene with 20 nanometer spatial resolution, by applying mid-infrared (MIR) near-field optical 4 microscopy. We unveil a propagating plasmon mode in charge-neutral TBG with ��=��.��−��.��∘, which 5 is dramatically different from the ordinary single-layer graphene intraband plasmon7,8. We interpret it 6 as an interband plasmon associated with the optical transitions between minibands originating from 7 the moiré superlattice9,10. The details of the plasmon dispersion are directly related to the motion of 8 electrons in the moiré superlattice and offer invaluable insight into a plethora of physical properties, 9 such as the band nesting between flat band and remote band10, local interlayer coupling, losses etc. We 10 find a strongly reduced interlayer coupling in the regions with AA-stacking, pointing at screening due 11 to electron-electron (e-e) interactions. Optical nano-imaging studies of TBG pave the way to spatially 12 probe interactions effects at the nanoscale11, it could potentially elucidate the contribution of collective excitations to many-body ground states12, and it unveils itself as a new platform for strong light-matter 14 interactions and quantum plasmonic studies and devices13.Citable link to this page
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