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We analyze the dissipative conductance of the zero-plateau quantum Hall state appearing in undoped graphene in strong magnetic fields. Charge transport in this state is assumed to be carried by a magnetic domain wall, which forms by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-02 Efrat Shimshoni , H. A. Fertig , G. Venketeswara Pai

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…

Topological magnetic insulators host chiral gapless edge modes. In the presence of strong interaction effects, the spin of these modes may fractionalize. Studying a 2D array of coupled insulating spin-1/2 chains, we show how spatially…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-03 Even Thingstad , Pierre Fromholz , Flavio Ronetti , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

Twisted graphene multilayers are highly tunable flatband systems for developing new phases of matter. Thus far, while orbital ferromagnetism has been observed in valley polarized phases, the long-range orders of other correlated phases as…

Gapless edge modes hosted by chirally-stacked trilayer graphene display unique features when a bulk gap is opened by applying an interlayer potential difference. We show that trilayer graphene with half-integer valley Hall conductivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-21 Xiao Li , Zhenhua Qiao , Jeil Jung , Qian Niu

In the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field, ABC-stacked trilayer graphene's chiral band structure supports a 12-fold degenerate N=0 Landau level (LL). Along with the valley and spin degrees of freedom, the zeroth LL contains…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-15 R. Côté , Maxime Rondeau , Anne-Marie Gagnon , Yafis Barlas

A promising approach to attain long-distance coherent spin propagation is accessing topological spin-polarized edge states in graphene. Achieving this without external magnetic fields necessitates engineering graphene band structure,…

Chirally stacked N-layer graphene systems with N >= 2 exhibit a variety of distinct broken symmetry states in which charge density contributions from different spins and valleys are spontaneously transferred between layers. We explain how…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-07-02 Fan Zhang , Jeil Jung , Gregory A. Fiete , Qian Niu , Allan H. MacDonald

At a certain "magic" relative twist angle of two graphene sheets it remains a challenge to obtain a detailed description of the proliferation of correlated topological electronic phases and their filling-dependence. We perform a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-10 Clara N. Breiø , Brian M. Andersen

Determining the symmetry breaking order of correlated quantum phases is essential for understanding the microscopic interactions in their host systems. The flat bands in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) provide an especially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 Jesse C. Hoke , Yifan Li , Julian May-Mann , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Barry Bradlyn , Taylor L. Hughes , Benjamin E. Feldman

We report on the quantum Hall effect in two stacked graphene layers rotated by 2 degree. The tunneling strength among the layers can be varied from very weak to strong via the mechanism of magnetic breakdown when tuning the density.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Youngwook Kim , Pilkyung Moon , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jurgen H. Smet

We report on our accurate evaluation of spin polarizations of the ground state and particle-hole gaps for partially-filled lowest Landau level, observed in recent experiments on graphene subjected to ultra-high magnetic fields. We find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tapash Chakraborty , Pekka Pietilainen

Twisted van der Waals heterostructures with flat electronic bands have recently emerged as a platform for realizing correlated and topological states with an extraordinary degree of control and tunability. In graphene-based moir\'e…

We analyze density-wave and Pomeranchuk orders in twisted bilayer graphene. This compliments our earlier analysis of the pairing instabilities. We assume that near half-filling of either conduction or valence band, the Fermi level is close…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-18 Dmitry V. Chichinadze , Laura Classen , Andrey V. Chubukov

It is shown that topological insulating phases driven by interactions can be realized without the need for spin-orbit coupling or large intersite interaction in a two-dimensional system of spin-1/2 fermions with a single pair of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-21 James M. Murray , Oskar Vafek

We reveal that local interactions in graphene allow novel spin liquids between the semi-metal and antiferromagnetic Mott insulating phases, identified with algebraic spin liquid and Z$_{2}$ spin liquid, respectively. We argue that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-17 Minh-Tien Tran , Ki-Seok Kim

The co-presence of multiple Dirac bands in few-layer graphene leads to a rich phase diagram in the quantum Hall regime. Using transport measurements, we map the phase diagram of BN-encapsulated ABA-stacked trilayer graphene as a function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Petr Stepanov , Yafis Barlas , Tim Espiritu , Shi Che , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Dmitry Smirnov , Chun Ning Lau

Low-dimensional electronic systems have traditionally been obtained by electrostatically confining electrons, either in heterostructures or in intrinsically nanoscale materials such as single molecules, nanowires, and graphene. Recently, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-12 A. F. Young , J. D. Sanchez-Yamagishi , B. Hunt , S. H. Choi , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , R. C. Ashoori , P. Jarillo-Herrero

We show that strained or deformed honeycomb lattices are promising platforms to realize fractional topological quantum states in the absence of any magnetic field. The strained induced pseudo magnetic fields are oppositely oriented in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-07-04 P. Ghaemi , J. Cayssol , D. N. Sheng , A. Vishwanath

The ground states of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) at chiral and flat-band limit with integer fillings are known from exact solutions, while their dynamical and thermodynamical properties are revealed by unbiased quantum Monte Carlo (QMC)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-15 Cheng Huang , Xu Zhang , Gaopei Pan , Heqiu Li , Kai Sun , Xi Dai , Ziyang Meng