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Title: Landau level transition and magnetophonon resonance in a twisted bilayer graphene
We perform resonant Raman spectroscopy on 8◦ twisted bilayer graphene placed in an out-of-plane magnetic field. The high-quality device has narrow Landau level linewidth of less than 5 meV that enables detection of features from both electronic Raman scattering and magnetophonon resonance involving electronic transitions between the low energy Landau levels. Two magnetophonon resonances are observed, one at 4.6T in the strong coupling regime, and the other at 2.6T in the weak coupling regime. Using the measured Landau level transition energy, we analyze the renormalization of effective band velocity, whose dependence on magnetic field points to a 20% enhancement of dielectric constant due to the presence of an adjacent graphene layer, a quite prominent screening effect from a monolayer of carbon atoms in proximity. Both the Landau level transition electronic Raman and the magnetophonon resonance are gate tunable. Harnessing angular momentum conservation, we demonstrate charge tuning of electron phonon coupling strength for left and right circularly polarized G band phonons separately.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2004474
PAR ID:
10525143
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
elsevier
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Solid State Communications
Volume:
371
Issue:
C
ISSN:
0038-1098
Page Range / eLocation ID:
115265
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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