Giant Second-Order Nonlinear Hall Effect in Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Junxi Duan, Yu Jian, Yang Gao, Huimin Peng, Jinrui Zhong, Qi Feng, Jinhai Mao, and Yugui Yao
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 186801 – Published 24 October 2022
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Abstract

In the second-order response regime, the Hall voltage can be nonzero without time-reversal symmetry breaking but inversion symmetry breaking. Multiple mechanisms contribute to the nonlinear Hall effect. The disorder-related contributions can enter the NLHE in the leading role, but experimental investigations are scarce, especially the exploration of the contributions from different disorder sources. Here, we report a giant nonlinear response in twisted bilayer graphene, dominated by disorder-induced skew scattering. The magnitude and direction of the second-order nonlinearity can be effectively tuned by the gate voltage. A peak value of the second-order Hall conductivity reaching 8.76μmSV1 is observed close to the full filling of the moiré band, four order larger than the intrinsic contribution detected in WTe2. The scaling shows that the giant second-order nonlinear Hall effect in twisted bilayer graphene stems from the collaboration of the static (impurities) and dynamic (phonons) disorders. It is mainly determined by the impurity skew scattering at 1.7 K. The phonon skew scattering, however, has a much larger coupling coefficient, and becomes comparable to the impurity contribution as the temperature rises. Our observations provide a comprehensive experimental understanding of the disorder-related mechanisms in the nonlinear Hall effect.

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  • Received 27 April 2022
  • Revised 8 August 2022
  • Accepted 30 September 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.186801

© 2022 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Condensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics

Authors & Affiliations

Junxi Duan1,*,†, Yu Jian1,*, Yang Gao2,‡, Huimin Peng1, Jinrui Zhong1, Qi Feng1, Jinhai Mao3, and Yugui Yao1,§

  • 1Key Laboratory of Advanced Optoelectronic Quantum Architecture and Measurement (MOE), School of Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100086, China
  • 2Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
  • 3School of Physical Sciences and CAS Center for Excellence in Topological Quantum Computation, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

  • *These authors contributed equally to this work.
  • junxi.duan@bit.edu.cn
  • ygao87@ustc.edu.cn
  • §ygyao@bit.edu.cn

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Vol. 129, Iss. 18 — 28 October 2022

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