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Coexisting Massive and Massless Dirac Fermions in Moire'-Reconstructed Bilayer Graphene

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2026-03-19 v2 Materials Science

Abstract

We report the emergence of massless Dirac fermions in moir\'{e}-reconstructed bands of bilayer graphene (BLG) aligned with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). Magnetotransport measurements reveal that while the primary BLG band retains a parabolic dispersion with a Berry phase of 2π2\pi, the moir\'{e}-induced secondary bands at n/n0=±4n/n_0 = \pm 4 host chiral massless quasiparticles with a Berry phase π\pi and a Fermi velocity vm3.6×105ms1v_m \approx 3.6 \times 10^5 \mathrm{m s^{-1}}. This transition from massive to massless carriers arises from topological band reconstruction driven by the hBN moir\'{e} potential. Our results demonstrate that moir\'{e} engineering in BLG/hBN offers a powerful route to tune band topology and realize coexisting Dirac and massive fermions within a single crystalline platform.

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@article{arxiv.2510.20309,
  title  = {Coexisting Massive and Massless Dirac Fermions in Moire'-Reconstructed Bilayer Graphene},
  author = {Mohit Kumar Jat and Kenji Watanabe and Takashi Taniguchi and Aveek Bid},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.20309},
  year   = {2026}
}