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Intrinsic quantized anomalous Hall effect in a moir\'e heterostructure

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2020-03-18 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Materials Science

Abstract

We report the observation of a quantum anomalous Hall effect in twisted bilayer graphene showing Hall resistance quantized to within .1\% of the von Klitzing constant h/e2h/e^2 at zero magnetic field.The effect is driven by intrinsic strong correlations, which polarize the electron system into a single spin and valley resolved moir\'e miniband with Chern number C=1C=1. In contrast to extrinsic, magnetically doped systems, the measured transport energy gap Δ/kB27\Delta/k_B\approx 27~K is larger than the Curie temperature for magnetic ordering TC9T_C\approx 9~K, and Hall quantization persists to temperatures of several Kelvin. Remarkably, we find that electrical currents as small as 1~nA can be used to controllably switch the magnetic order between states of opposite polarization, forming an electrically rewritable magnetic memory.

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@article{arxiv.1907.00261,
  title  = {Intrinsic quantized anomalous Hall effect in a moir\'e heterostructure},
  author = {M. Serlin and C. L. Tschirhart and H. Polshyn and Y. Zhang and J. Zhu and K. Watanabe and T. Taniguchi and L. Balents and A. F. Young},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.00261},
  year   = {2020}
}

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