Observation of Γ-Valley Moiré Bands and Emergent Hexagonal Lattice in Twisted Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Autor: Ding Pei, Binbin Wang, Zishu Zhou, Zhihai He, Liheng An, Shanmei He, Cheng Chen, Yiwei Li, Liyang Wei, Aiji Liang, Jose Avila, Pavel Dudin, Viktor Kandyba, Alessio Giampietri, Mattia Cattelan, Alexei Barinov, Zhongkai Liu, Jianpeng Liu, Hongming Weng, Ning Wang, Jiamin Xue, Yulin Chen
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Physical Review X, Vol 12, Iss 2, p 021065 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2160-3308
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.12.021065
Popis: Twisted van der Waals heterostructures have recently been proposed as a condensed-matter platform for realizing controllable quantum models due to the low-energy moiré bands with specific charge distributions moiré superlattices. Here, combining angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy with submicron spatial resolution (μ-ARPES) and scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), we performed a systematic investigation on the electronic structure of 5.1° twisted bilayer WSe_{2} that hosts correlated insulating and zero-resistance states. Interestingly, contrary to one’s expectation, moiré bands were observed only at Γ valley but not K valley in μ-ARPES measurements, and correspondingly, our STM measurements clearly identified the real-space honeycomb- and kagome-shaped charge distributions at the moiré length scale associated with the Γ-valley moiré bands. These results not only reveal the unusual valley-dependent moiré-modified electronic structure in twisted transition metal dichalcogenides, but also highlight the Γ-valley moiré bands as a promising platform for exploring strongly correlated physics in emergent honeycomb and kagome lattices at different energy scales.
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