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We devote this work to the study of the mean-field phase diagram of the $\nu=0$ quantum Hall state in bilayer graphene and the computation of the corresponding neutral collective modes, extending the results of recent works in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-20 J. R. M. de Nova , I. Zapata

Topological antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics is an emerging field of research, which involves the topological electronic states coupled to the AFM order parameter known as the N$\acute{\rm e}$el vector. The control of these states is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Hiroyuki Takenaka , Shane Sandhoefner , Alexey A. Kovalev , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

In this article we briefly review recent experimental and theoretical work on quantum Hall effect in graphene, and argue that some of the quantum Hall states exhibit spontaneous symmetry breaking that is driven by electron-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 Kun Yang

Synthetic quantum Hall bilayer (SQHB), realized by optically driven monolayer graphene in the quantum Hall regime, provides a flexible platform for engineering quantum Hall phases as discussed in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 247403]. The coherent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-02 Ze-Pei Cian , Tobias Grass , Abolhassan Vaezi , Zhao Liu , Mohammad Hafezi

Valley-polarized quantum Hall states in graphene are described by a Heisenberg O(3) ferromagnet model, with the ordering type controlled by the strength and sign of valley anisotropy. A mechanism resulting from electron coupling to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-14 Dmitry A. Abanin , Patrick A. Lee , Leonid S. Levitov

Interacting electrons in flat bands give rise to a variety of quantum phases. One fundamental aspect of such states is the ordering of the various flavours - such as spin or valley - that the electrons can undergo and the excitation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 Gelareh Farahi , Cheng-Li Chiu , Xiaomeng Liu , Zlatko Papic , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Michael P. Zaletel , Ali Yazdani

Realizations of some topological phases in two-dimensional systems rely on the challenge of jointly incorporating spin-orbit and magnetic exchange interactions. Here, we predict the formation and control of a fully valley-polarized quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-25 Marc Vila , Jose H. Garcia , Stephan Roche

We study the the interplay between spontaneously broken valley symmetry and spatial disorder in multivalley semiconductors in the quantum Hall regime. In cases where valleys have anisotropic electron dispersion a previous long-wavelength…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-05 Akshay Kumar , S. A. Parameswaran , S. L. Sondhi

Two-dimensional electron gases in strong magnetic fields provide a canonical platform for realizing a variety of electronic ordering phenomena. Here we review the physics of one intriguing class of interaction-driven quantum Hall states:…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-25 S. A. Parameswaran , B. E. Feldman

We investigate interaction-induced valley domain walls in bilayer graphene in the $\nu=0$ quantum Hall state, subject to a perpendicular electric field that is antisymmetric across a line in the sample. Such a state can be realized in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-05-10 Chia-Wei Huang , Efrat Shimshoni , H. A. Fertig

At and near charge neutrality, monolayer graphene in a perpendicular magnetic field is a quantum Hall ferromagnet. In addition to the highly symmetric Coulomb interaction, residual lattice-scale interactions, Zeeman, and sublattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Jincheng An , Ajit C. Balram , Ganpathy Murthy

Electrons in clean macroscopic samples of graphene exhibit an astonishing variety of quantum phases when strong perpendicular magnetic field is applied. These include integer and fractional quantum Hall states as well as symmetry broken…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-25 Anffany Chen , R. Ilan , F. de Juan , D. I. Pikulin , M. Franz

We study the electronic structures and topological properties of $(M+N)$-layer twisted graphene systems. We consider the generic situation that $N$-layer graphene is placed on top of the other $M$-layer graphene, and is twisted with respect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Jianpeng Liu , Zhen Ma , Jinhua Gao , Xi Dai

Electrons in graphene have four flavors associated with low-energy spin and valley degrees of freedom. The fractional quantum Hall effect in graphene is dominated by long-range Coulomb interactions which are invariant under rotations in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-23 Fengcheng Wu , Inti Sodemann , Yasufumi Araki , Allan H. MacDonald , Thierry Jolicoeur

Twisted bilayer graphene offers a unique bilayer two-dimensional-electron system where the layer separation is only in sub-nanometer scale. Unlike Bernal-stacked bilayer, the layer degree of freedom is disentangled from spin and valley,…

We present an approach to the fractional quantum Hall effect observed in grapheme (GFQHE), basing us on the model developed previously for the fractional quantum Hall effect in a two-dimensional electron system embedded in a quantum well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-20 M. A. Hidalgo

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

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…

We demonstrate the existance of ferrimagnetic and ferromagnetic phases in a spin phase diagram of coupled lateral quantum dot molecules in the quantum Hall regime. The spin phase diagram is determined from Hartree-Fock Configuration…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ramin M. Abolfath , Pawel Hawrylak

Strong interaction between electrons in two-dimensional systems in the presence of a high magnetic field gives rise to fractional quantum Hall states that host quasiparticles with fractional charge and fractional exchange statistics. Here,…