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Quantized Landau-level crossing checkerboard in large-angle twisted graphene

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2024-12-05 v1

Abstract

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/he^{2}/h, where ee and hh 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/BD/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/BD/B-ν\nu 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\delta D = e2πlB2\frac{e}{2\pi l_{B}^{2}}, where lBl_B 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.

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@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}
}

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10 pages, 4 figures

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