Transport Spectroscopy of Symmetry-Broken Insulating States in Bilayer Graphene

Details Transport Spectroscopy of Symmetry-Broken Insulating States in Bilayer Graphene Transport Spectroscopy of Symmetry-Broken Insulating States in Bilayer Graphene

2011-08-08

arxiv.org/abs/1108.1609v1

Nature Nanotechnology, 7, 156 (2012)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1038/nnano.2011.251

The flat bands in bilayer graphene(BLG) are sensitive to electric fields E\bot directed between the layers, and magnify the electron-electron interaction effects, thus making BLG an attractive platform for new two-dimensional (2D) electron physics[1-5]. Theories[6-16] have suggested the possibility of a variety of interesting broken symmetry states, some characterized by spontaneous mass gaps, when the electron-density is at the carrier neutrality point (CNP). The theoretically proposed gaps[6,7,10] in bilayer graphene are analogous[17,18] to the masses generated by broken symmetries in particle physics and give rise to large momentum-space Berry curvatures[8,19] accompanied by spontaneous quantum Hall effects[7-9]. Though recent experiments[20-23] have provided convincing evidence of strong electronic correlations near the CNP in BLG, the presence of gaps is difficult to establish because of the lack of direct spectroscopic measurements. Here we present transport measurements in ultra-clean double-gated BLG, using source-drain bias as a spectroscopic tool to resolve a gap of ~2 meV at the CNP. The gap can be closed by an electric field E\bot \sim13 mV/nm but increases monotonically with a magnetic field B, with an apparent particle-hole asymmetry above the gap, thus providing the first mapping of the ground states in BLG.

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