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 …

Direct observation of a magnetic-field-induced Wigner crystal

YC Tsui, M He, Y Hu, E Lake, T Wang, K Watanabe… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Wigner predicted that when the Coulomb interactions between electrons become much
stronger than their kinetic energy, electrons crystallize into a closely packed lattice. A variety …

Extended quantum anomalous Hall states in graphene/hBN moiré superlattices

Z Lu, T Han, Y Yao, Z Hadjri, J Yang, J Seo, L Shi, S Ye… - Nature, 2025 - nature.com
Electrons in topological flat bands can form new topological states driven by correlation
effects. The pentalayer rhombohedral graphene/hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) moiré …

High-quality magnetotransport in graphene using the edge-free corbino geometry

Y Zeng, JIA Li, SA Dietrich, OM Ghosh, K Watanabe… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
We report fabrication of graphene devices in a Corbino geometry consisting of concentric
circular electrodes with no physical edge connecting the inner and outer electrodes. High …

Nanoscale imaging of equilibrium quantum Hall edge currents and of the magnetic monopole response in graphene

A Uri, Y Kim, K Bagani, CK Lewandowski, S Grover… - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Although the recently predicted topological magnetoelectric effect and the response to an
electric charge that mimics an induced mirror magnetic monopole are fundamental attributes …

Fractional quantum Hall effect with unconventional pairing in monolayer graphene

A Sharma, S Pu, AC Balram, JK Jain - Physical review letters, 2023 - APS
Motivated by the observation of even denominator fractional quantum Hall effect in the n= 3
Landau level of monolayer graphene [Kim et al., Nat. Phys. 15, 154 (2019) NPAHAX 1745 …

Solids of quantum Hall skyrmions in graphene

H Zhou, H Polshyn, T Taniguchi, K Watanabe… - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Partially filled Landau levels host competing electronic orders. For example, electron solids
may prevail close to integer filling of the Landau levels before giving way to fractional …

Edge channels of broken-symmetry quantum Hall states in graphene visualized by atomic force microscopy

S Kim, J Schwenk, D Walkup, Y Zeng, F Ghahari… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The quantum Hall (QH) effect, a topologically non-trivial quantum phase, expanded the
concept of topological order in physics bringing into focus the intimate relation between the …

Cascade of multielectron bubble phases in monolayer graphene at high Landau level filling

F Yang, R Bai, AA Zibrov, S Joy, T Taniguchi… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
The phase diagram of an interacting two-dimensional electron system in a high magnetic
field is enriched by the varying form of the effective Coulomb interaction, which depends …