Disorder-dominated quantum criticality in moiré bilayers.

Nat Commun

Department of Physics and National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, USA.

Published: December 2022

Moiré bilayer materials have recently attracted much attention following the discovery of various correlated insulating states at specific band fillings. Here we discuss the metal-insulator transitions (MITs) that have been observed in the same devices, but at fillings far from the strongly correlated regime dominated by Mott-like physics, displaying many similarities to other examples of disorder-dominated MITs. We propose a minimal theoretical model describing the interplay of interactions and disorder, which is able to capture all the universal aspects of quantum criticality, as observed in experiments performed on several devices.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35103-wDOI Listing

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