Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • News & Views
  • Published:

Quantum materials

Unravelling the magic of twisted trilayer graphene

A new spectroscopic technique takes advantage of overlapping electronic bands to probe the strongly correlated states of magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene.

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Access options

Buy this article

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

Fig. 1: Band diagrams illustrating the Dirac spectroscopy technique.

References

  1. Balents, L., Dean, C. R., Efetov, D. K. & Young, A. F. Nat. Phys. 16, 725–733 (2020).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  2. Andrei, E. Y. & MacDonald, A. H. Nat. Mater. 19, 1265–1275 (2020).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  3. Cao, Y., Park, J. M., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T. & Jarillo-Herrero, P. Nature 595, 526–531 (2021).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  4. Park, J. M., Cao, Y., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T. & Jarillo-Herrero, P. Nature 590, 249–255 (2021).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  5. Hao, Z. et al. Science 371, 1133–1138 (2021).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  6. Khalaf, E., Kruchkov, A. J., Tarnopolsky, G. & Vishwanath, A. Phys. Rev. B 100, 085109 (2019).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  7. Shen, C. et al. Nat. Mater. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-022-01428-6 (2022).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  8. Park, J. M. et al. Nat. Mater. 21, 877–883 (2022).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  9. Burg, G. W. et al. Nat. Mater. 21, 884–889 (2022).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  10. Zhang, Y. et al. Science 377, 1538–1543 (2022).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Matthew Yankowitz.

Ethics declarations

Competing interests

The author declares no competing interests.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Yankowitz, M. Unravelling the magic of twisted trilayer graphene. Nat. Mater. 22, 286–287 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-022-01462-4

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-022-01462-4

Search

Quick links

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing