Exciton Band Topology in Spontaneous Quantum Anomalous Hall Insulators: Applications to Twisted Bilayer Graphene

We uncover topological features of neutral particle-hole pair excitations of correlated quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators whose approximately flat conduction and valence bands have equal and opposite nonzero Chern number. Using an exactly solvable model we show that the underlying band topolog...

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Published in:Physical review letters 2021-04, Vol.126 (13), p.137601-137601, Article 137601
Main Authors: Kwan, Yves H, Hu, Yichen, Simon, Steven H, Parameswaran, S A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bilayers
Excitons
Graphene
Insulators
Neutral particles
Nonuniformity
Substrates
Topology
Valence band
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Summary:We uncover topological features of neutral particle-hole pair excitations of correlated quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators whose approximately flat conduction and valence bands have equal and opposite nonzero Chern number. Using an exactly solvable model we show that the underlying band topology affects both the center-of-mass and relative motion of particle-hole bound states. This leads to the formation of topological exciton bands whose features are robust to nonuniformity of both the dispersion and the Berry curvature. We apply these ideas to recently reported broken-symmetry spontaneous QAH insulators in substrate aligned magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.137601