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The appearance of a Hall conductance necessarily requires breaking of time-reversal symmetry, either by an external magnetic field or by the internal magnetization of a material. However, as a second response, Hall dissipationless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-23 Carmine Ortix

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) has been studied extensively owing to its wealth of symmetry-broken phases, correlated Chern insulators, orbital magnetism, and superconductivity. In particular, the anomalous Hall effect (AHE)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Chun-Chih Tseng , Xuetao Ma , Zhaoyu Liu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jiun-Haw Chu , Matthew Yankowitz

We study the quantum nonlinear planar Hall effect in bilayer graphene under a steady in-plane magnetic field. When time-reversal symmetry is broken by the magnetic field, a charge current occurs in the second-order response to an external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 Narjes Kheirabadi , Abdollah Langari

This study theoretically investigates the contact conductance in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), providing a theoretical explanation for recent experimental observations from scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and conductive atomic force…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-30 Kevin J. U. Vidarte , Caio Lewenkopf , F. Crasto de Lima , R. Hiroki Miwa , Felipe Pérez Riffo , Eric Suárez Morell

While the anomalous Hall effect can manifest even without an external magnetic field, time reversal symmetry is nonetheless still broken by the internal magnetization of the sample. Recently, it has been shown that certain materials without…

Detecting the orientation of the N\'eel vector is a major research topic in antiferromagnetic spintronics. Here we recognize the intrinsic nonlinear Hall effect, which is independent of the relaxation time, as a prominent contribution to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Chong Wang , Yang Gao , Di Xiao

Topological flat bands formed in two-dimensional lattice systems offer unique opportunity to study the fractional phases of matter in the absence of an external magnetic field. Celebrated examples include fractional quantum anomalous Hall…

This review presents recent breakthroughs in the realm of nonlinear Hall effects, emphasizing central theoretical foundations and recent experimental progress. We elucidate the quantum origin of the second-order Hall response, focusing on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Arka Bandyopadhyay , Nesta Benno Joseph , Awadhesh Narayan

Unconventional responses upon breaking discrete or crystal symmetries open avenues for exploring emergent physical systems and materials. By breaking inversion symmetry, a nonlinear Hall signal can be observed, even in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-27 Z. Z. Du , C. M. Wang , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

The observation of a Hall effect, a finite transverse voltage induced by a longitudinal current, usually requires the breaking of time-reversal symmetry, for example through the application of an external magnetic field or the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-15 Patrick W. Krantz , Alexander Tyner , Pallab Goswami , Venkat Chandrasekhar

We present a theoretical study of the local optical conductivity, plasmon spectra, and thermoelectric properties of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) at different filling factors and twist angles $\theta$. Our calculations are based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-04 Pietro Novelli , Iacopo Torre , Frank H. L. Koppens , Fabio Taddei , Marco Polini

The nonlinear Hall effect (NLHE) connects crystalline symmetry to quantum geometry, offering a probe of band topology beyond linear transport. While most studies have focused on the Berry curvature dipole in low-symmetry crystals,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Heda Zhang , Nikolai Peshcherenko , Ning Mao , Nianlong Zou , Jiaqiang Yan , Claudia Felser , Yang Zhang

The nonlinear Hall effect (NHE) can enable rectification and energy harvesting, and its control by external fields, including gate, strain and magnetic field, has been pursued intensively. However, existing tuning pathways rely…

The anomalous Hall effect in time-reversal symmetry broken systems is underpinned by the concept of Berry curvature in band theory. However, recent experiments reveal that the nonlinear Hall effect can be observed in non-magnetic systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-22 Arka Bandyopadhyay , Nesta Benno Joseph , Awadhesh Narayan

In this work, we calculate the optical response and the nonlinear Hall response of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) in the insulating states. Different insulating states, including spin-valley polarized (SPVP) state, spin-polarized quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-21 Hui Yang , Fa Wang

In this work we carry out a theoretical study of the phonon-induced resistivity in twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG), in which two Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene devices are rotated relative to each other by a small angle $\theta$. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-30 Xiao Li , Fengcheng Wu , S. Das Sarma

Focusing on the twist angle for the minimal commensurate structure, we perform nonperturbative calculations of electron dynamics in the twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) under intense laser fields. We show that the TBG exhibits enriched…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-22 Tatsuhiko N. Ikeda

Two-dimensional van der Waals materials offer a highly tunable platform for generating emergent quantum phenomena through symmetry breaking. Stacking-induced symmetry breaking at interfaces provides an effective method to modulate their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-23 Xing-Guo Ye , Zhen-Tao Zhang , Peng-Fei Zhu , Wen-Zheng Xu , An-Qi Wang , Zhi-Min Liao

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) with interlayer twist angles near the magic angle $\approx 1.08^{\circ}$ hosts flat bands and exhibits correlated states including Mott-like insulators, superconductivity and magnetism. Here we report combined…

The study of the non-linear anomalous Hall effect (NLAHE) in $\mathcal{P}\mathcal{T}$-symmetric systems has focussed on intrinsic mechanisms. Here we show that disorder contributes substantially to NLAHE and often overwhelms intrinsic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-23 Rhonald Burgos Atencia , Di Xiao , Dimitrie Culcer