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Area of Science:

  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Materials Science

Background:

  • Twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) exhibits exotic electronic phases near the magic angle due to topology and strong correlations.
  • These phases arise from flat electronic bands and enable gate-tunable charge confinement.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To engineer and investigate gate-defined single-electron transistors (SETs) in tBLG.
  • To explore the interplay of confinement, electron interactions, and band renormalization in tBLG.
  • To probe magnetic field effects on tBLG electronic states.

Main Methods:

  • Fabrication of gate-defined SETs in tBLG.
  • Characterization of Coulomb blockade resonances.
  • Measurement of magnetic field-induced quantum oscillations.
  • Comparison with tight-binding calculations.

Main Results:

  • Demonstration of tunable Coulomb blockade resonances in tBLG SETs.
  • Observation of quantum oscillations revealing insights into gate-tunable Fermi surfaces.
  • Identification of displacement-field-induced band renormalization.

Conclusions:

  • Gate-defined SETs in tBLG are viable for studying correlated electronic phases.
  • Band renormalization is critical for developing advanced tBLG quantum devices.
  • This work paves the way for tBLG-based quantum dots and Josephson junction arrays.