Gate-tunable topological phases in superlattice modulated bilayer graphene
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| author | Zeng, Yongxin Wolf, Tobias M. R. Huang, Chunli Wei, Nemin Ghorashi, Sayed Ali Akbar MacDonald, Allan H. Cano, Jennifer |
| author_facet | Zeng, Yongxin Wolf, Tobias M. R. Huang, Chunli Wei, Nemin Ghorashi, Sayed Ali Akbar MacDonald, Allan H. Cano, Jennifer |
| contents | Superlattice potential modulation can produce flat minibands in Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene. In this work we study how band topology and interaction-induced symmetry-broken phases in this system are controlled by tuning the displacement field and the shape and strength of the superlattice potential. We use an analytic perturbative analysis to demonstrate that topological flat bands are favored by a honeycomb-lattice-shaped potential, and numerics to show that the robustness of topological bands depends on both the displacement field strength and the periodicity of the superlattice potential. At integer fillings of the topological flat bands, the strength of the displacement field and the superlattice potential tune phase transitions between quantum anomalous Hall insulator, trivial insulator, and metallic states. We present mean-field phase diagrams in a gate voltage parameter space at filling factor $ν=1$, and discuss the prospects of realizing quantum anomalous Hall insulators and fractional Chern insulators when the superlattice potential modulation is produced by dielectric patterning or adjacent moiré materials. |
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| spellingShingle | Gate-tunable topological phases in superlattice modulated bilayer graphene Zeng, Yongxin Wolf, Tobias M. R. Huang, Chunli Wei, Nemin Ghorashi, Sayed Ali Akbar MacDonald, Allan H. Cano, Jennifer Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Superlattice potential modulation can produce flat minibands in Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene. In this work we study how band topology and interaction-induced symmetry-broken phases in this system are controlled by tuning the displacement field and the shape and strength of the superlattice potential. We use an analytic perturbative analysis to demonstrate that topological flat bands are favored by a honeycomb-lattice-shaped potential, and numerics to show that the robustness of topological bands depends on both the displacement field strength and the periodicity of the superlattice potential. At integer fillings of the topological flat bands, the strength of the displacement field and the superlattice potential tune phase transitions between quantum anomalous Hall insulator, trivial insulator, and metallic states. We present mean-field phase diagrams in a gate voltage parameter space at filling factor $ν=1$, and discuss the prospects of realizing quantum anomalous Hall insulators and fractional Chern insulators when the superlattice potential modulation is produced by dielectric patterning or adjacent moiré materials. |
| title | Gate-tunable topological phases in superlattice modulated bilayer graphene |
| topic | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04321 |