Quantum criticality in twisted transition metal dichalcogenides

Augusto Ghiotto, En-Min Shih, Giancarlo S. S. G. Pereira, Daniel A. Rhodes, Bumho Kim, Jiawei Zang, Andrew J. Millis, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, James C. Hone, Lei Wang (), Cory R. Dean () and Abhay N. Pasupathy ()
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Augusto Ghiotto: Columbia University
En-Min Shih: Columbia University
Giancarlo S. S. G. Pereira: Columbia University
Daniel A. Rhodes: Columbia University
Bumho Kim: Columbia University
Jiawei Zang: Columbia University
Andrew J. Millis: Columbia University
Kenji Watanabe: National Institute for Materials Science
Takashi Taniguchi: National Institute for Materials Science
James C. Hone: Columbia University
Lei Wang: Columbia University
Cory R. Dean: Columbia University
Abhay N. Pasupathy: Columbia University

Nature, 2021, vol. 597, issue 7876, 345-349

Abstract: Abstract Near the boundary between ordered and disordered quantum phases, several experiments have demonstrated metallic behaviour that defies the Landau Fermi paradigm1–5. In moiré heterostructures, gate-tuneable insulating phases driven by electronic correlations have been recently discovered6–23. Here, we use transport measurements to characterize metal–insulator transitions (MITs) in twisted WSe2 near half filling of the first moiré subband. We find that the MIT as a function of both density and displacement field is continuous. At the metal–insulator boundary, the resistivity displays strange metal behaviour at low temperatures, with dissipation comparable to that at the Planckian limit. Further into the metallic phase, Fermi liquid behaviour is recovered at low temperature, and this evolves into a quantum critical fan at intermediate temperatures, before eventually reaching an anomalous saturated regime near room temperature. An analysis of the residual resistivity indicates the presence of strong quantum fluctuations in the insulating phase. These results establish twisted WSe2 as a new platform to study doping and bandwidth-controlled metal–insulator quantum phase transitions on the triangular lattice.

Date: 2021
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