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Graphene is the first model system of two-dimensional topological insulator (TI), also known as quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator. The QSH effect in graphene, however, has eluded direct experimental detection because of its extremely small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-12 Liangzhi Kou , Feiming Hu , Binghai Yan , Tim Wehling , Claudia Felser , Thomas Frauenheim , Changfeng Chen

We predict a quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE) in the ferromagnetic graphene under a magnetic field. Unlike the previous QSHE, this QSHE appears in the absence of any spin-orbit interaction, thus, arrived from a different physical origin. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie

We show the emergence of fractional quantum Hall states in dry-transferred chemical vapor deposition (CVD) derived graphene assembled into heterostructures for magnetic fields from below 3 T to 35 T. Effective composite-fermion filling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-14 M. Schmitz , T. Ouaj , Z. Winter , K. Rubi , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , U. Zeitler , B. Beschoten , C. Stampfer

The two-dimensional quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect is direct evidence of non-trivial Berry curvature topology in condensed matter physics. Searching for QAH in 2D materials, particularly with simplified fabrication methods, poses a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Yueh-Ting Yao , Suyang Xu , Tay-Rong Chang

Since 2017, epitaxial graphene has been the base material for the US national standard for resistance. A future avenue of research within electrical metrology is to remove the need for strong magnetic fields, as is currently the case for…

The field-effect mobility of graphene devices is discussed. We argue that the graphene ballistic mean free path can only be extracted by taking into account both, the electrical characteristics and the channel length dependent mobility. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Zhihong Chen , Joerg Appenzeller

We have performed magnetotransport experiments in the high-temperature regime (up to 50 K) of the integer quantum Hall effect for two-dimensional electron gases in semiconducting heterostructures. While the magnetic field dependence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-23 M. Flöser , B. A. Piot , C. L. Campbell , D. K. Maude , M. Henini , R. Airey , Z. R. Wasilewski , S. Florens , T. Champel

Two-dimensional materials (2DMs) are fundamentally electro-mechanical systems. Their environment unavoidably strains them and modifies their quantum transport properties. For instance, a simple uniaxial strain could completely turn off the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 A. C. McRae , G. Wei , L. Huang , S. Yigen , V. Tayari , A. R. Champagne

In QED of two space dimensions, a quantum Hall effect occurs in the absence of any magnetic field. We give a simple and transparent explanation. In solid state physics, the Hall conductivity for non-degenerate ground state is expected to be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-25 Marianne Leitner

We have measured the quantum Hall effect in monolayer graphene samples that were exposed to a cold hydrogen plasma leading to a hydrogenation level of a few percent. Compared to pristine graphene, the Landau level distance significantly…

We demonstrate quantum Hall resistance measurements with metrological accuracy in a small cryogen-free system operating at a temperature of around 3.8K and magnetic fields below 5T. Operating this system requires little experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-27 T. J. B. M. Janssen , S. Rozhko , I. Antonov , A. Tzalenchuk , J. M. Williams , Z. Melhem , H. He , S. Lara-Avila , S. Kubatkin , R. Yakimova

We report on magnetotransport measurements of multi-terminal suspended graphene devices. Fully developed integer quantum Hall states appear in magnetic fields as low as 2 T. At higher fields the formation of longitudinal resistance minima…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Fereshte Ghahari , Yue Zhao , Paul Cadden-Zimansky , Kirill Bolotin , Philip Kim

We investigate the transverse electric field ($E$) dependence of the $\nu$=0 quantum Hall state (QHS) in dual-gated graphene bilayers in high magnetic fields. The longitudinal resistivity ($\rho_{xx}$) measured at $\nu$=0 shows an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-05 Seyoung Kim , Kayoung Lee , Emanuel Tutuc

We have studied the conductivity peak in the transition region between the two lowest integer Quantum Hall states using transmission measurements of edge magnetoplasmons. The width of the transition region is found to increase linearly with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. Q. Balaban , U. Meirav , I. Bar-Joseph

A recent experiment [Cohen et al., Science 382, 542 (2023)] observed a robustly quantized $e^2/2h$ conductance in a quantum point contact between fractional quantum Hall edges (a quantum Hall transformer), which then vanishes at low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Stuart Yi-Thomas , Jay D. Sau

Direct transitions, driven by disorder, from several integral quantum Hall states to an insulator have been observed in experiment. This finding is enigmatic in light of a theoretical phase diagram, based on rather general considerations,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 X. R. Wang , X. C. Xie , Q. Niu , J. K. Jain

We use Pseudo Quantum Electrodynamics (PQED) in order to describe the full electromagnetic interaction of the p-electrons of graphene in a consistent 2D formulation. We first consider the effect of this interaction in the vacuum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-04-08 E. C. Marino , Leandro O. Nascimento , Van Sergio Alves , C. Morais Smith

We report on the stability of the quantum Hall plateau in wide Hall bars made from a chemically gated graphene film grown on SiC. The $\nu=2$ quantized plateau appears from fields $B \simeq 5$ T and persists up to $B \simeq 80$ T. At high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-26 M. Yang , O. Couturaud , W. Desrat , C. Consejo , D. Kazazis , R. Yakimova , M. Syväjärvi , M. Goiran , J. Béard , P. Frings , M. Pierre , A. Cresti , W. Escoffier , B. Jouault

Since its discovery, graphene has been one of the most prominent 2D materials due to its unique properties and broad range of possible applications. In particular, the half-integer Quantum Hall Effect (HI-QHE) characterized by the…

We propose a multiterminal nanostructure for electrical probing of the quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE) in two-dimensional (2D) topological insulators. The device consists of a ferromagnetic (FM) island with precessing magnetization that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-28 Son-Hsien Chen , Branislav K. Nikolic , Ching-Ray Chang