Interplay of electronic crystals with integer and fractional Chern insulators in moiré pentalayer graphene
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| author | Waters, Dacen Okounkova, Anna Su, Ruiheng Zhou, Boran Yao, Jiang Watanabe, Kenji Taniguchi, Takashi Xu, Xiaodong Zhang, Ya-Hui Folk, Joshua Yankowitz, Matthew |
| author_facet | Waters, Dacen Okounkova, Anna Su, Ruiheng Zhou, Boran Yao, Jiang Watanabe, Kenji Taniguchi, Takashi Xu, Xiaodong Zhang, Ya-Hui Folk, Joshua Yankowitz, Matthew |
| contents | The rapid development of moiré quantum matter has recently led to the remarkable discovery of the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect, and sparked predictions of other novel correlation-driven topological states. Here, we investigate the interplay of electronic crystals with integer and fractional Chern insulators in a moiré lattice of rhomobohedral pentalayer graphene (RPG) aligned with hexagonal boron nitride. At a doping of one electron per moiré unit cell, we see a correlated insulator with a Chern number that can be tuned between $C=0$ and $+1$ by an electric displacement field, accompanied by an array of other such insulators formed at fractional band fillings, $ν$. Collectively, these states likely correspond to trivial and topological electronic crystals, some of which spontaneously break the discrete translational symmetry of the moiré lattice. Upon applying a modest magnetic field, a narrow region forms around $ν=2/3$ in which transport measurements imply the emergence of a fractional Chern insulator, along with hints of weaker states at other fractional $ν$. In the same sample, we also see a unique sequence of incipient Chern insulators arising over a broad range of incommensurate band filling near two holes per moiré unit cell. Our results establish moiré RPG as a fertile platform for studying the competition and potential intertwining of electronic crystallization and topological charge fractionalization. |
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| spellingShingle | Interplay of electronic crystals with integer and fractional Chern insulators in moiré pentalayer graphene Waters, Dacen Okounkova, Anna Su, Ruiheng Zhou, Boran Yao, Jiang Watanabe, Kenji Taniguchi, Takashi Xu, Xiaodong Zhang, Ya-Hui Folk, Joshua Yankowitz, Matthew Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Strongly Correlated Electrons The rapid development of moiré quantum matter has recently led to the remarkable discovery of the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect, and sparked predictions of other novel correlation-driven topological states. Here, we investigate the interplay of electronic crystals with integer and fractional Chern insulators in a moiré lattice of rhomobohedral pentalayer graphene (RPG) aligned with hexagonal boron nitride. At a doping of one electron per moiré unit cell, we see a correlated insulator with a Chern number that can be tuned between $C=0$ and $+1$ by an electric displacement field, accompanied by an array of other such insulators formed at fractional band fillings, $ν$. Collectively, these states likely correspond to trivial and topological electronic crystals, some of which spontaneously break the discrete translational symmetry of the moiré lattice. Upon applying a modest magnetic field, a narrow region forms around $ν=2/3$ in which transport measurements imply the emergence of a fractional Chern insulator, along with hints of weaker states at other fractional $ν$. In the same sample, we also see a unique sequence of incipient Chern insulators arising over a broad range of incommensurate band filling near two holes per moiré unit cell. Our results establish moiré RPG as a fertile platform for studying the competition and potential intertwining of electronic crystallization and topological charge fractionalization. |
| title | Interplay of electronic crystals with integer and fractional Chern insulators in moiré pentalayer graphene |
| topic | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.10133 |