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Chern insulators host topologically protected chiral edge currents with quantized conductance characterized by their Chern number. Switching the chirality of a Chern insulator, namely, the direction of the edge current, is highly…

The most celebrated property of the quantum spin Hall effect is the presence of spin-polarized counter-propagating edge states. This novel edge state configuration has also been predicted to occur in graphene when spin-split electron- and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-19 Patrick Maher , Cory R. Dean , Andrea F. Young , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Kenneth L. Shepard , James Hone , Philip Kim

Magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene (MATTG) recently exhibited robust superconductivity at a higher transition temperature (TC) than the bilayer version. With electric gating from both the top and bottom sides, the superconductivity was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-04 Shujin Li , Guanyuan Zheng , Junlin Huang

We consider the most energetically favorable symmetry-allowed spin-singlet and spin-triplet superconducting pairing symmetries in twisted bilayer graphene at the magic angle, whose normal state physics is described by a six-band effective…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-07-27 Emile Pangburn , Miguel Alvarado , Oladunjoye A. Awoga , Catherine Pépin , Cristina Bena

The potential of graphene-based materials consisting of one or a few layers of graphite for integrated electronics originates from the large room-temperature carrier mobility in these systems (approx. 10,000 cm2/Vs). However, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-04 Jeroen B. Oostinga , Hubert B. Heersche , Xinglan Liu , Alberto F. Morpurgo , Lieven M. K. Vandersypen

In the past two years, magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has emerged as a uniquely versatile experimental platform that combines metallic, superconducting, magnetic and insulating phases in a single crystal. In particular the ability to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-30 Folkert K. de Vries , Elias Portoles , Giulia Zheng , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin , Peter Rickhaus

The coexistence of topological magnons and electrons in magnetic materials presents a compelling route toward developing low-dissipation, multifunctional spintronic devices. However, material systems enabling their simultaneous realization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Haozhou Cai , Zhiming Xu , Jian Wu , Weiyi Pan

Degeneracies in multilayer graphene, including spin, valley, and layer degrees of freedom, are susceptible to Coulomb interactions and can result into rich broken-symmetry states. In this work, we report a ferromagnetic state in charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-30 Yating Sha , Jian Zheng , Kai Liu , Hong Du , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jinfeng Jia , Zhiwen Shi , Ruidan Zhong , Guorui Chen

Superconductivity has been observed in twisted MoTe2 within the anomalous Hall metal parent state. Key signatures-including a fully spin/valley polarized normal state, anomalous Hall resistivity hysteresis, superconducting phase adjacent to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-07 Cheng Xu , Nianlong Zou , Nikolai Peshcherenko , Ammar Jahin , Tingxin Li , Shi-Zeng Lin , Yang Zhang

The interplay between band topology and magnetism can give rise to exotic states of matter. For example, magnetically doped topological insulators can realize a Chern insulator that exhibits quantized Hall resistance at zero magnetic field.…

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) can host an intriguing variety of gate-tunable correlated states, including superconducting and correlated insulator states. Junction-based superconducting devices, such as Josephson junctions…

The isospin flavors in condensed matters can be continuously broken, forming various symmetry-broken quantum states. In moir\'e crystals, the competition between different isospin configurations can be effectively tuned by the twist angles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Wenxuan Wang , Yijie Wang , Zaizhe Zhang , Zihao Huo , Gengdong Zhou , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , X. C. Xie , Kaihui Liu , Zhida Song , Xiaobo Lu

Hexagonally patterned two-dimensional $p$-type semiconductor systems are quantum simulators of graphene with strong and highly tunable spin-orbit interactions. We show that application of purely in-plane magnetic fields, in combination with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Tommy Li , Oleg P. Sushkov

Bernal bilayer graphene has recently been discovered to exhibit a wide range of unique ordered phases resulting from interaction-driven effects and encompassing spin and valley magnetism, correlated insulators, correlated metals, and…

Recently Chern insulators with Chern number $C=1$ and $C=2$ in zero (or very small) magnetic field have been observed in two moire graphene systems: twisted bilayer graphene and ABC trilayer graphene, both aligned with a hexagonal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-07 Ya-Hui Zhang , T. Senthil

Thermal fluctuation in magnets will bring temperature-dependent self-energy corrections to the magnons, however, their effects on the topological orders of magnons is not well explored. Here we demonstrate that such corrections can induce a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Yun-Mei Li , Xi-Wang Luo , Kai Chang

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), with rotational misalignment close to 1.1$^\circ$, features isolated flat electronic bands that host a rich phase diagram of correlated insulating, superconducting, ferromagnetic, and topological…

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) provides a unique framework to elucidate the interplay between strong correlations and topological phenomena in two-dimensional systems. The existence of multiple electronic degrees of freedom -- charge, spin,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-27 Yuan Da Liao , Jian Kang , Clara N. Breiø , Xiao Yan Xu , Han-Qing Wu , Brian M. Andersen , Rafael M. Fernandes , Zi Yang Meng

Moir\'e superlattices based on rhombohedral multilayer graphene have emerged as a highly tunable platform for engineering correlated topological phases. Here, we systematically investigate the transport properties of the hole-doped side in…

We present a theoretical investigation of the emergence of chiral topological superconductivity in small-angle twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) and twisted double bilayer graphene (tDBLG). Using the low-energy continuum model and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Kamalesh Bera , Tanay Nag , Arijit Saha