2D materials for quantum information science

X Liu, MC Hersam - Nature Reviews Materials, 2019 - nature.com
The transformation of digital computers from bulky machines to portable systems has been
enabled by new materials and advanced processing technologies that allow ultrahigh …

Disorder in van der Waals heterostructures of 2D materials

D Rhodes, SH Chae, R Ribeiro-Palau, J Hone - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
Realizing the full potential of any materials system requires understanding and controlling
disorder, which can obscure intrinsic properties and hinder device performance. Here we …

van der Waals heterostructures combining graphene and hexagonal boron nitride

M Yankowitz, Q Ma, P Jarillo-Herrero… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
As the first in a large family of 2D van der Waals (vdW) materials, graphene has attracted
enormous attention owing to its remarkable properties. The recent development of simple …

Visualizing broken symmetry and topological defects in a quantum Hall ferromagnet

X Liu, G Farahi, CL Chiu, Z Papic, K Watanabe… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The interaction between electrons in graphene under high magnetic fields drives the
formation of a rich set of quantum Hall ferromagnetic (QHFM) phases with broken spin or …

Mechanism for anomalous hall ferromagnetism in twisted bilayer graphene

N Bultinck, S Chatterjee, MP Zaletel - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
Motivated by the recent observation of an anomalous Hall effect in twisted bilayer graphene,
we use a lowest Landau level model to understand the origin of the underlying symmetry …

Spin-orbit–driven ferromagnetism at half moiré filling in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

JX Lin, YH Zhang, E Morissette, Z Wang, S Liu… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Strong electron correlation and spin-orbit coupling (SOC) can have a profound influence on
the electronic properties of materials. We examined their combined influence on a two …

Ultra-high-quality two-dimensional electron systems

YJ Chung, KA Villegas Rosales, KW Baldwin… - Nature Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Two-dimensional electrons confined to GaAs quantum wells are hallmark platforms for
probing electron–electron interactions. Many key observations have been made in these …

Strain-induced quantum phase transitions in magic-angle graphene

DE Parker, T Soejima, J Hauschild, MP Zaletel… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
We investigate the effect of uniaxial heterostrain on the interacting phase diagram of magic-
angle twisted bilayer graphene. Using both self-consistent Hartree-Fock and density-matrix …

Hunting for majoranas

A Yazdani, F Von Oppen, BI Halperin, A Yacoby - Science, 2023 - science.org
Over the past decade, there have been considerable efforts to observe non-abelian
quasiparticles in novel quantum materials and devices. These efforts are motivated by the …

Fractional charge and fractional statistics in the quantum Hall effects

DE Feldman, BI Halperin - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Quasiparticles with fractional charge and fractional statistics are key features of the fractional
quantum Hall effect. We discuss in detail the definitions of fractional charge and statistics …