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We provide a critical discussion concerning the claim of topological valley currents, driven by a global Berry curvature and valley Hall effect proposed in recent literature. After pointing out a major inconsistency of the theoretical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Stephan Roche , Stephen R. Power , Branislav K. Nikolić , José Hugo García , Antti-Pekka Jauho

The observation of large nonlocal resistances near the Dirac point in graphene has been related to a variety of intrinsic Hall effects, where the spin or valley degrees of freedom are controlled by symmetry breaking mechanisms. Engineering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-15 Mário Ribeiro , Stephen R. Power , Stephan Roche , Luis. E. Hueso , Fèlix Casanova

2D materials based superlattices have emerged as a promising platform to modulate band structure and its symmetries. In particular, moir\'e periodicity in twisted graphene systems produces flat Chern bands. The recent observation of…

Graphene superlattices have recently been attracting growing interest as an emergent class of quantum metamaterials. In this paper, we report the observation of nonlocal transport in bilayer graphene (BLG) superlattices encapsulated between…

Recent experiments have studied the temperature and gate voltage dependence of nonlocal transport in bilayer graphene, identifying features thought to be associated with the two-dimensional semiconductor's bulk intrinsic valley Hall effect.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-22 Akihiko Sekine , Allan H. MacDonald

In gapped Dirac materials, the topological current associated with each valley can flow in opposite directions creating long-range charge-neutral valley currents. We report valley currents in hBN/bilayer-graphene heterostructures with an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Takuya Iwasaki , Yoshifumi Morita , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi

Graphene subject to high levels of shear strain leads to strong pseudo-magnetic fields resulting in the emergence of Landau levels. Here we show that, with modest levels of strain, graphene can also sustain a classical valley hall effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-01 Xian-Peng Zhang , Chunli Huang , Miguel A. Cazalilla

The topological properties of gapped graphene have been explored for valleytronics applications. Prior transport experiments indicated their topological nature through large nonlocal resistance in Hall-bar devices, but the origin of this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Hyeon-Woo Jeong , Seong Jang , Sein Park , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Gil-Ho Lee

We report on the emergence of bulk, valley-polarized currents in graphene-based devices, driven by spatially varying regions of broken sublattice symmetry, and revealed by non-local resistance ($R_\mathrm{NL}$) fingerprints. By using a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Thomas Aktor , Jose H. Garcia , Stephan Roche , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Stephen R. Power

Graphene grown epitaxially on SiC, close to the charge neutrality point (CNP), in an orthogonal magnetic field shows an ambipolar behavior of the transverse resistance accompanied by a puzzling longitudinal magnetoresistance. When injecting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 A. Tagliacozzo , G. Campagnano , D. Giuliano , P. Lucignano , B. Jouault

Gapped 2D Dirac materials, in which inversion symmetry is broken by a gap-opening perturbation, feature a unique valley transport regime. The system ground state hosts dissipationless persistent valley currents existing even when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-22 Yuri D. Lensky , Justin C. W. Song , Polnop Samutpraphoot , Leonid S. Levitov

Topological materials may exhibit Hall-like currents flowing transversely to the applied electric field even in the absence of a magnetic field. In graphene superlattices, which have broken inversion symmetry, topological currents…

Transport measurements have been a powerful tool for uncovering new electronic phenomena in graphene. We report nonlocal measurements performed in the Hall bar geometry with voltage probes far away from the classical path of charge flow. We…

Van der Waals heterostructures display a rich variety of unique electronic properties. To identify novel transport mechanisms, nonlocal measurements have been widely used, wherein a voltage is measured at contacts placed far away from the…

Twisted bilayer graphene gives rise to large moir\'{e} patterns that form a triangular network upon mechanical relaxation. If gating is included, each triangular region has gapped electronic Dirac points that behave as bulk topological…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-05-26 Guillaume Bal , Paul Cazeaux , Daniel Massatt , Solomon Quinn

Valley-dependent topological physics offers a promising avenue for designing nanoscale devices based on gapless single-layer graphene. To demonstrate this potential, we investigate an electrical bias-controlled topological discontinuity in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Zheng-Han Huang , Jing-Yuan Lai , Yu-Shu G. Wu

In graphene superlattices, bulk topological currents can lead to long-range charge-neutral flow and non-local resistance near Dirac points. A ballistic version of these phenomena has never been explored. Here, we report transport properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-31 K. Komatsu , Y. Morita , E. Watanabe , D. Tsuya , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , S. Moriyama

We investigate a valleytronic device based on graphene with charge separation at different sublattices and correspondingly at nonequivalent valleys. We characterize the maximality condition of valley polarization and investigate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-08 Hamed Koochaki Kelardeh , Mohammadreza Eidi , Takashi Oka , Jan Michael Rost

Graphene on hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) can exhibit a topological phase via mutual crystallographic alignment. Recent measurements of nonlocal resistance ($R_{nl}$) near the secondary Dirac point (SDP) in ballistic graphene/hBN…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-21 Yang Li , Mario Amado , Timo Hyart , Grzegorz P. Mazur , Jason W. A. Robinson

We theoretically investigate gate-defined graphene superlattices with broken inversion symmetry as a platform for realizing tunable valley dependent transport. Our analysis is motivated by recent experiments [C. Forsythe et al., Nat.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-21 Johannes H. J. Martiny , Kristen Kaasbjerg , Antti-Pekka Jauho
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