Correlated Insulating States and Transport Signature of Superconductivity in Twisted Trilayer Graphene Moiré of Moiré Superlattices (1912.03375v2)

Abstract: Layers of two-dimensional materials stacked with a small twist-angle give rise to beating periodic patterns on a scale much larger than the original lattice, referred to as a moir\'e superlattice. When the stacking involves more than two layers with independent twist angles between adjacent layers, it generates moir\'e of moir\'e superlattices, with multiple length scales that control the system's behavior. Here we demonstrate these effects of a high-order moir\'e superlattice in twisted trilayer graphene with two consecutive small twist angles. We report correlated insulating states near the half filling of the moir\'e of moir\'e superlattice at an extremely low carrier density (~1010 cm-2), near which we also report a zero-resistance transport behavior typically expected in a 2D superconductor. Moreover, the temperature dependence of the measured resistances at full-occupancy (v = -4 and v = 4) states are semi-metallic, distinct from the insulating behavior of twisted bilayer systems, providing the first demonstration of emergent correlated transport behaviors from continuous, non-isolated higher-order moir\'e flat bands. Our findings shed new insights into the microscopic mechanisms of moir\'e correlated states and provide the impetus for future studies on this material platform, such as the demonstration of phase coherence and Meissner-like effect.