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Revealing intrinsic domains and fluctuations of moiré magnetism by a wide-field quantum microscope

Authors :
Huang, Mengqi
Sun, Zeliang
Yan, Gerald
Xie, Hongchao
Agarwal, Nishkarsh
Ye, Gaihua
Sung, Suk Hyun
Lu, Hanyi
Zhou, Jingcheng
Yan, Shaohua
Tian, Shangjie
Lei, Hechang
Hovden, Robert
He, Rui
Wang, Hailong
Zhao, Liuyan
Du, Chunhui Rita
Publication Year :
2023
Publisher :
arXiv, 2023.

Abstract

Moiré magnetism featured by stacking engineered atomic registry and lattice interactions has recently emerged as an appealing quantum state of matter at the forefront condensed matter physics research. Nanoscale imaging of moiré magnets is highly desirable and serves as a prerequisite to investigate a broad range of intriguing physics underlying the interplay between topology, electronic correlations, and unconventional nanomagnetism. Here we report spin defect-based wide-field imaging of magnetic domains and spin fluctuations in twisted double trilayer (tDT) chromium triiodide CrI3. We explicitly show that intrinsic moiré domains of opposite magnetizations appear over arrays of moiré supercells in low-twist-angle tDT CrI3. In contrast, spin fluctuations measured in tDT CrI3 manifest little spatial variations on the same mesoscopic length scale due to the dominant driving force of intralayer exchange interaction. Our results enrich the current understanding of exotic magnetic phases sustained by moiré magnetism and highlight the opportunities provided by quantum spin sensors in probing microscopic spin related phenomena on two-dimensional flatland.

Details

Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........5830cc520a701475f9de0b5601ca1aa9
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2307.03876