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Quantum Hall (QH) and quantum spin Hall (QSH) phases have very different edge states and, when going from one phase to the other, the direction of one edge state must be reversed. We study this phenomena in graphene in presence of a strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-20 Oleksii Shevtsov , Pierre Carmier , Cyril Petitjean , Christoph Groth , David Carpentier , Xavier Waintal

New phases of matter can be stabilized by a combination of diverging electronic density of states, strong interactions, and spin-orbit coupling. Recent experiments in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) have uncovered a wealth of…

Materials with flat electronic bands often exhibit exotic quantum phenomena owing to strong correlations. Remarkably, an isolated low-energy flat band can be induced in bilayer graphene by simply rotating the layers to 1.1$^{\circ}$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Matthew Yankowitz , Shaowen Chen , Hryhoriy Polshyn , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , David Graf , Andrea F. Young , Cory R. Dean

We numerically study the quantum Hall effect in biased bilayer graphene based on a tight-binding model in the presence of disorder. Integer quantum Hall plateaus with quantized conductivity $\sigma_{xy}=\nu e^2/h$ (where $\nu$ is any…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-29 R. Ma , L. J. Zhu , L. Sheng , M. Liu , D. N. Sheng

Bilayer graphene in a magnetic field supports eight zero-energy Landau levels, which, as a tunable band gap develops, evolve into two nearly-degenerate quartets separated by the band gap. A close look is made into the properties of such an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 K. Shizuya

We show nonlinear transport experiments on clean, suspended bilayer graphene that reveal a gap in the density of states. Looking at the evolution of the gap in magnetic fields of different orientation, we find that the groundstate is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-16 Frank Freitag , Markus Weiss , Romain Maurand , Jelena Trbovic , Christian Schönenberger

Bilayer graphene bears an eight-fold degeneracy due to spin, valley and layer symmetry, allowing for a wealth of broken symmetry states induced by magnetic or electric fields, by strain, or even spontaneously by interaction. We study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-15 F. Freitag , J. Trbovic , M. Weiss , C. Schönenberger

The quantum anomalous Hall effect can occur in single and few layer graphene systems that have both exchange fields and spin-orbit coupling. In this paper, we present a study of the quantum anomalous Hall effect in single-layer and gated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Wang-Kong Tse , Zhenhua Qiao , Yugui Yao , A. H. MacDonald , Qian Niu

We investigate topological phases of bilayer graphene subject to antiferromagnetic exchange field, interlayer bias, and irradiated by light. We discover that at finite bias and light intensity the system transitions into a previously…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Xuechao Zhai , Yaroslav M. Blanter

Symmetry breaking in a quantum system often leads to complex emergent behavior. In bilayer graphene (BLG), an electric field applied perpendicular to the basal plane breaks the inversion symmetry of the lattice, opening a band gap at the…

The rich phase diagram of quantum spin-ladder systems has attracted much attention in the theoretical literature. The progress in experimental realisations of this fascinating physics however has been much slower. While materials with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-05 Victoria Mazo , Chia-Wei Huang , Efrat Shimshoni , Sam T. Carr , H. A. Fertig

Bilayer graphene (BLG) offers a rich platform for broken symmetry states stabilized by interactions. In this work we study the phase diagram of BLG in the quantum Hall regime at filling factor $\nu=0$ within the Hartree-Fock approximation.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-27 Ganpathy Murthy , Efrat Shimshoni , Herbert Fertig

A two-dimensional electron system placed in a magnetic field develops Landau levels, where strong Coulomb interactions lead to the appearance of many-body correlated ground states. Quantum numbers similar to the electron spin enable the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-14 Ke Huang , Hailong Fu , Danielle Reifsnyder Hickey , Nasim Alem , Xi Lin , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jun Zhu

The quantum Hall (QH) effect, the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect and the quantum valley Hall (QVH) effect are three peculiar topological insulating phases in graphene. They are characterized by three different types of edge states. These…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Yu-Chen Zhuang , Qing-Feng Sun

Here we report from our theoretical studies that in biased bilayer graphene, one can induce phase transitions from an incompressible state to a compressible state by tuning the bandgap at a given electron density. Likewise, variation of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-03-02 Vadim M. Apalkov , Tapash Chakraborty

We report on integer and fractional quantum Hall states in a stack of two twisted Bernal bilayer graphene sheets. By exploiting the momentum mismatch in reciprocal space, we suppress single particle tunneling between both bilayers. Since…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-08 Soyun Kim , Dohun Kim , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jurgen. H. Smet , Youngwook Kim

The non-interacting energy spectrum of graphene and its bilayer counterpart consists of multiple degeneracies owing to the inherent spin, valley and layer symmetries. Interactions among charge carriers are expected to spontaneously break…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 R. Thomas Weitz , Monica T. Allen , Benjamin E. Feldman , Jens Martin , Amir Yacoby

We show that gated bilayer graphene hosts a strong topological insulator (TI) phase in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling. We find that gated bilayer graphene under preserved time-reversal symmetry is a quantum valley Hall…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-12-15 Zhenhua Qiao , Wang-Kong Tse , Hua Jiang , Yugui Yao , Qian Niu

Bilayer graphene (BLG) was recently shown to host a band-inverted phase with unconventional topology emerging from the Ising-type spin--orbit interaction (SOI) induced by the proximity of transition metal dichalcogenides with large…

The quantum Hall effect near the charge neutrality point in bilayer graphene is investigated in high magnetic fields of up to 35 T using electronic transport measurements. In the high field regime, the eight-fold degeneracy in the zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Y. Zhao , P. Cadden-Zimansky , Z. Jiang , P. Kim