When charge transport occurs under conditions like topological protection or ballistic motion, the conductance of low-dimensional systems often exhibits quantized values in units of e2/h, where e and h are the elementary charge and Planck's constant. Such quantization has been pivotal in quantum metrology and computing. Here, we demonstrate a novel quantized quantity: the ratio of the displacement field to the magnetic field, D/B, in large-twist-angle bilayer graphene. In the high magnetic field limit, Landau level crossings between the top and bottom layers manifest equal-sized checkerboard patterns throughout the D/B-ν space. It stems from a peculiar electric-field-driven interlayer charge transfer at one elementary charge per flux quantum, leading to quantized intervals of critical displacement fields, (i.e., δD = 2πlB2e, where lB is the magnetic length). Our findings suggest that interlayer charge transfer in the quantum Hall regime can yield intriguing physical phenomena, which has been overlooked in the past.
@article{arxiv.2412.03004,
title = {Quantized Landau-level crossing checkerboard in large-angle twisted graphene},
author = {Baojuan Dong and Kai Zhao and Kenji Watanabe and Takashi Taniguchi and Jianming Lu and Jianting Zhao and Fengcheng Wu and Jing Zhang and Zheng Han},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.03004},
year = {2024}
}