Twist-angle-dependent quantum phase diagrams in moiré bilayer MoTe2
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Zheng Sun1, Fan Xu1,2, Jiayi Li1
1State Key Laboratory of Micro-nano Engineering Science, Key Laboratory of Artificial Structures and Quantum Control (Ministry of Education), School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
Abstract:
Two-dimensional semiconducting moiré superlattices provide a highly tunable platform for investigating strongly correlated and topological quantum phases1-5. As a prototypical example, twisted bilayer MoTe2 (tMoTe2) has been shown to host fractional topological phases at zero magnetic field6-20. However, their evolution with twist angle and competition with other correlated quantum states remain largely unexplored. Here we report a systematic transport study of twist-angle-dependent phase diagrams in tMoTe2 across a range of 3.79°-5.76°, revealing an evolution from valley-polarized, fractional topological states to valley-degenerate correlated states and superconductivity. At relatively small twist angles, partially filled Chern bands of tMoTe2 host fractional quantum anomalous Hall states following the Jain sequence, together with signatures of an anomalous composite Fermi liquid at moiré hole filling factor νh = 1/2. Increasing twist angle progressively suppresses fractional topological phases and reconstructs the half-filled Chern band into symmetry-breaking integer Chern insulating states. At νh = 1, we observe a transition from robust integer quantum anomalous Hall insulators at small angles to displacement-field-tuned, topologically trivial correlated insulators at larger angles. At twist angles above approximately 5.6°, superconductivity emerges adjacent to the νh = 1 correlated insulator, with a phase diagram closely resembling that recently reported in twisted bilayer WSe2 (refs. 21-24). Our results indicate a unified twist-angle-driven phase evolution linking fractional topology, symmetry breaking, magnetic order and superconductivity, providing new insight into the emergent quantum phenomena in moiré systems.
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