Correlated insulating and superconducting states in twisted bilayer graphene below the magic angle

• Published in: Science advances Vol. 5; no. 9; p. eaaw9770
• Main Authors: Codecido, Emilio, Wang, Qiyue, Koester, Ryan, Che, Shi, Tian, Haidong, Lv, Rui, Tran, Son, Watanabe, Kenji, Taniguchi, Takashi, Zhang, Fan, Bockrath, Marc, Lau, Chun Ning
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States AAAS 27.09.2019; American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Subjects: MATERIALS SCIENCE; Physics; SciAdv r-articles; Science & Technology - Other Topics
• ISSN: 2375-2548; 2375-2548
• DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaw9770

The emergence of flat bands and correlated behaviors in "magic angle" twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) has sparked tremendous interest, though its many aspects are under intense debate. Here we report observation of both superconductivity and the Mott-like insulating state in a tBLG device with a twist angle of ~0.93°, which is smaller than the magic angle by 15%. At an electron concentration of ±5 electrons/moiré unit cell, we observe a narrow resistance peak with an activation energy gap ~0.1 meV. This indicates additional correlated insulating state, and is consistent with theory predicting a high-energy flat band. At doping of ±12 electrons/moiré unit cell we observe resistance peaks arising from the Dirac points in the spectrum. Our results reveal that the "magic" range of tBLG is in fact larger than what is previously expected, and provide a wealth of new information to help decipher the strongly correlated phenomena observed in tBLG.