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Trilayer graphene allows systematic control of its electronic structure through stacking sequence and twist geometry, providing a versatile platform for correlated states. Here we report magnetotransport in alternating twisted trilayer…

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Spintronics has emerged as a promising field for next-generation devices, offering functionalities beyond complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS). A critical challenge in spintronics is to develop systems that can efficiently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Zhendong Chi , Eoin Dolan , Haozhe Yang , Beatriz Martín-García , Marco Gobbi , Luis E. Hueso , Fèlix Casanova

We consider an effective model for graphene with interface-induced spin-orbit coupling and calculate the quantum Hall effect in the low-energy limit. We perform a systematic analysis of the contribution of the different terms of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Tarik P. Cysne , Jose H. Garcia , Alexandre R. Rocha , Tatiana G. Rappoport

We conduct experimental studies on the electrical transport properties of monolayer graphene directly covered by a few layers of $\rm CrI_3$. We do not observe the expected magnetic exchange coupling in the graphene but instead discover…

The formation of quantum Hall channels inside the bulk of graphene is studied using various contact and gate geometries. p-n junctions are created along the longitudinal direction of samples, and enhanced conductance is observed in the case…

Recent low-temperature electron transport experiments in high-quality graphene rely on a technique of doped graphene leads, where the coupling between the graphene flake and its metallic contacts is increased by locally tuning graphene to…

We show evidence of the backscattering of quantum Hall edge channels in a narrow graphene Hall bar, induced by the gating effect of the conducting tip of a Scanning Gate Microscope, which we can position with nanometer precision. We show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-17 Lennart Bours , Stefano Guiducci , Alina Mreńca-Kolasińska , Bartłomiej Szafran , Jan C Maan , Stefan Heun

We model the quantum Hall effect in heterostructures made of two gapped graphene stripes with different gaps, $\Delta_1$ and $\Delta_2$. We consider two main situations, $\Delta_1=0,\Delta_2\neq0$ and $\Delta_1=-\Delta_2$. They are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-01 J. L. Lado , J. W. González , J. Fernández-Rossier

We report on the fabrication and transport studies of a single-layer graphene p-n junction. Carrier type and density in two adjacent regions are individually controlled by electrostatic gating using a local top gate and a global back gate.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-28 J. R. Williams , L. DiCarlo , C. M. Marcus

Quantum Hall effect (QHE), the ground to construct modern conceptual electronic systems with emerging physics, is often much influenced by the interplay between the host two-dimensional electron gases and the substrate, sometimes predicted…

Two-dimensional systems that host one-dimensional helical states are exciting from the perspective of scalable topological quantum computation when coupled with a superconductor. Graphene is particularly promising for its high electronic…

High quality epitaxial graphene films can be applied as templates for tailoring graphene-substrate interfaces that allow for precise control of the charge carrier behavior in graphene through doping and many-body effects. By combining…

Graphene is the first model system of two-dimensional topological insulator (TI), also known as quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator. The QSH effect in graphene, however, has eluded direct experimental detection because of its extremely small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-12 Liangzhi Kou , Feiming Hu , Binghai Yan , Tim Wehling , Claudia Felser , Thomas Frauenheim , Changfeng Chen

Realizing graphene's promise as an atomically thin and tunable platform for fundamental studies and future applications in quantum transport requires the ability to electrostatically define the geometry of the structure and control the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-20 Rebeca Ribeiro-Palau , Shaowen Chen , Yihang Zeng , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , James Hone , Cory R. Dean

We study the electronic transport across an electrostatically-gated lateral junction in a HgTe quantum well, a canonical 2D topological insulator, with and without applied magnetic field. We control carrier density inside and outside a…

Recent advances in chiral cavities that can couple coherently to two-dimensional materials have opened a powerful route to reshape electronic topology without an external drive. Here we establish the bulk-boundary correspondence for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Volker Karle , Oriana K. Diessel , Vasil Rokaj , Ceren B. Dağ

Graphene enables precise carrier-density control via gating, making it an ideal platform for studying electronic interactions. However, sample inhomogeneities often limit access to the low-density regimes where these interactions dominate.…

Graphene was the first material predicted to be a time-reversal-invariant topological insulator; however, the insulating gap is immeasurably small owing to the weakness of spin-orbit interactions in graphene. A recent experiment [1]…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Pouyan Ghaemi , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Taylor L. Hughes

We show that the chiral modes in circular graphene $pn$ junctions provide an advantage for spin manipulation via spin-orbit coupling compared to semiconductor platforms. We derive the effective Hamiltonian for the spin dynamics of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-28 Dario Bercioux , Diego Frustaglia , Alessandro De Martino

We theoretically investigate gate-defined graphene superlattices with broken inversion symmetry as a platform for realizing tunable valley dependent transport. Our analysis is motivated by recent experiments [C. Forsythe et al., Nat.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-21 Johannes H. J. Martiny , Kristen Kaasbjerg , Antti-Pekka Jauho