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Tuning commensurability in twisted van der Waals bilayers

  • Yanxing Li,
  • Fan Zhang,
  • Viet-Anh Ha,
  • Yu-Chuan Lin,
  • Chengye Dong,
  • Qiang Gao,
  • Zhida Liu,
  • Xiaohui Liu,
  • Sae Hee Ryu,
  • Hyunsue Kim,
  • Chris Jozwiak,
  • Aaron Bostwick,
  • Kenji Watanabe,
  • Takashi Taniguchi,
  • Bishoy Kousa,
  • Xiaoqin Li,
  • Eli Rotenberg,
  • Eslam Khalaf,
  • Joshua A. Robinson,
  • Feliciano Giustino,
  • Chih-Kang Shih

摘要

Moiré superlattices based on van der Waals bilayers14 created at small twist angles lead to a long wavelength pattern with approximate translational symmetry. At large twist angles (θt), moiré patterns are, in general, incommensurate except for a few discrete angles. Here we show that large-angle twisted bilayers offer distinctly different platforms. More specifically, by using twisted tungsten diselenide bilayers, we create the incommensurate dodecagon quasicrystals at θt = 30° and the commensurate moiré crystals at θt = 21.8° and 38.2°. Valley-resolved scanning tunnelling spectroscopy shows disparate behaviours between moiré crystals (with translational symmetry) and quasicrystals (with broken translational symmetry). In particular, the K valley shows rich electronic structures exemplified by the formation of mini-gaps near the valence band maximum. These discoveries demonstrate that bilayers with large twist angles offer a design platform to explore moiré physics beyond those formed with small twist angles.