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 …

Synthesis, structure and applications of graphene-based 2D heterostructures

P Solís-Fernández, M Bissett, H Ago - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
With the profuse amount of two-dimensional (2D) materials discovered and the
improvements in their synthesis and handling, the field of 2D heterostructures has gained …

Strongly correlated Chern insulators in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

KP Nuckolls, M Oh, D Wong, B Lian, K Watanabe… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Interactions between electrons and the topology of their energy bands can create unusual
quantum phases of matter. Most topological electronic phases appear in systems with weak …

Tunable correlated Chern insulator and ferromagnetism in a moiré superlattice

G Chen, AL Sharpe, EJ Fox, YH Zhang, S Wang… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Studies of two-dimensional electron systems in a strong magnetic field revealed the
quantum Hall effect, a topological state of matter featuring a finite Chern number C and …

Tunable correlated states and spin-polarized phases in twisted bilayer–bilayer graphene

Y Cao, D Rodan-Legrain, O Rubies-Bigorda, JM Park… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The recent discovery of correlated insulator states and superconductivity in magic-angle
twisted bilayer graphene, has enabled the experimental investigation of electronic …

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 …

Electrically tunable correlated and topological states in twisted monolayer–bilayer graphene

S Chen, M He, YH Zhang, V Hsieh, Z Fei, K Watanabe… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Twisted van der Waals heterostructures with flat electronic bands have recently emerged as
a platform for realizing correlated and topological states with a high degree of control and …

Symmetry-broken Chern insulators and Rashba-like Landau-level crossings in magic-angle bilayer graphene

I Das, X Lu, J Herzog-Arbeitman, ZD Song… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Flat bands in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) have recently emerged as a
rich platform to explore strong correlations, superconductivity,,–and magnetism,,. However …

Competing zero-field chern insulators in superconducting twisted bilayer graphene

P Stepanov, M Xie, T Taniguchi, K Watanabe, X Lu… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
The discovery of magic angle twisted bilayer graphene has unveiled a rich variety of
superconducting, magnetic, and topologically nontrivial phases. Here, we show that the zero …

Origin of Mott insulating behavior and superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene

HC Po, L Zou, A Vishwanath, T Senthil - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
A remarkable recent experiment has observed Mott insulator and proximate superconductor
phases in twisted bilayer graphene when electrons partly fill a nearly flat miniband that …