Correlated insulator and Chern insulators in pentalayer rhombohedral-stacked graphene

T Han, Z Lu, G Scuri, J Sung, J Wang, T Han… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Rhombohedral-stacked multilayer graphene hosts a pair of flat bands touching at zero
energy, which should give rise to correlated electron phenomena that can be tuned further …

Quantum cascade of correlated phases in trigonally warped bilayer graphene

AM Seiler, FR Geisenhof, F Winterer, K Watanabe… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Divergent density of states offers an opportunity to explore a wide variety of correlated
electron physics. In the thinnest limit, this has been predicted and verified in the ultraflat …

Quantum anomalous Hall octet driven by orbital magnetism in bilayer graphene

FR Geisenhof, F Winterer, AM Seiler, J Lenz, T Xu… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect—a macroscopic manifestation of chiral band
topology at zero magnetic field—has been experimentally realized only by the magnetic …

High-temperature quantum valley Hall effect with quantized resistance and a topological switch

K Huang, H Fu, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi, J Zhu - Science, 2024 - science.org
Edge states of a topological insulator can be used to explore fundamental science emerging
at the interface of low dimensionality and topology. Achieving a robust conductance …

A valley valve and electron beam splitter

J Li, RX Zhang, Z Yin, J Zhang, K Watanabe… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Developing alternative paradigms of electronics beyond silicon technology requires the
exploration of fundamentally new physical mechanisms, such as the valley-specific …

Unconventional correlated insulator in CrOCl-interfaced Bernal bilayer graphene

K Yang, X Gao, Y Wang, T Zhang, Y Gao, X Lu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The realization of graphene gapped states with large on/off ratios over wide doping ranges
remains challenging. Here, we investigate heterostructures based on Bernal-stacked bilayer …

Valley isospin controlled fractional quantum Hall states in bilayer graphene

K Huang, H Fu, DR Hickey, N Alem, X Lin, K Watanabe… - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
A two-dimensional electron system placed in a magnetic field develops Landau levels,
where strong Coulomb interactions lead to the appearance of many-body correlated ground …

Intra-zero-energy Landau level crossings in bilayer graphene at high electric fields

F Xiang, A Gupta, A Chaves, ZE Krix, K Watanabe… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
The highly tunable band structure of the zero-energy Landau level (zLL) of bilayer graphene
makes it an ideal platform for engineering novel quantum states. However, the zero-energy …

Probing the tunable multi-cone band structure in Bernal bilayer graphene

AM Seiler, N Jacobsen, M Statz, N Fernandez… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Bernal bilayer graphene (BLG) offers a highly flexible platform for tuning the band structure,
featuring two distinct regimes. One is a tunable band gap induced by large displacement …

Quantum Hall Effect Measurement of Spin–Orbit Coupling Strengths in Ultraclean Bilayer Graphene/WSe2 Heterostructures

D Wang, S Che, G Cao, R Lyu, K Watanabe… - Nano Letters, 2019 - ACS Publications
We study proximity-induced spin–orbit coupling (SOC) in bilayer graphene/few-layer WSe2
heterostructure devices. Contact mode atomic force microscopy (AFM) cleaning yields …