Nonvolatile Switching of Magnetism via Gate-Induced Sliding in Tetralayer Graphene
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| author | Brandon, Daniel Tan, Tixuan Ai, Yiwen Golemis, Peter Gandhi, Akshat Min, Lujin Watanabe, Kenji Taniguchi, Takashi Devakul, Trithep Yasuda, Kenji |
| author_facet | Brandon, Daniel Tan, Tixuan Ai, Yiwen Golemis, Peter Gandhi, Akshat Min, Lujin Watanabe, Kenji Taniguchi, Takashi Devakul, Trithep Yasuda, Kenji |
| contents | Interlayer sliding degrees of freedom often determine the physical properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials. In graphene, for instance, the metastable rhombohedral stacking arrangement hosts correlated and topological electronic phases, which are absent in conventional Bernal stacking. Here, we demonstrate a sliding-induced first-order structural phase transition between Bernal and rhombohedral tetralayer graphene driven by gate voltages. Through transport measurement, we observe bistable switching between a Bernal-dominant state and a rhombohedral-Bernal mixed state across a wide space of the gate-voltage phase diagram. The structural phase transition results in nonvolatile switching between a paramagnet and a ferromagnet accompanied by the anomalous Hall effect. The sign reversal of the anomalous Hall effect under opposite displacement fields suggests that it may originate from domain boundaries between the Bernal and rhombohedral regions. Our discovery paves the way for on-demand toggling of quantum phases based on the sliding phase transition of 2D materials and offers a playground to explore unconventional physics at the stacking domain boundaries. |
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| spellingShingle | Nonvolatile Switching of Magnetism via Gate-Induced Sliding in Tetralayer Graphene Brandon, Daniel Tan, Tixuan Ai, Yiwen Golemis, Peter Gandhi, Akshat Min, Lujin Watanabe, Kenji Taniguchi, Takashi Devakul, Trithep Yasuda, Kenji Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Interlayer sliding degrees of freedom often determine the physical properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials. In graphene, for instance, the metastable rhombohedral stacking arrangement hosts correlated and topological electronic phases, which are absent in conventional Bernal stacking. Here, we demonstrate a sliding-induced first-order structural phase transition between Bernal and rhombohedral tetralayer graphene driven by gate voltages. Through transport measurement, we observe bistable switching between a Bernal-dominant state and a rhombohedral-Bernal mixed state across a wide space of the gate-voltage phase diagram. The structural phase transition results in nonvolatile switching between a paramagnet and a ferromagnet accompanied by the anomalous Hall effect. The sign reversal of the anomalous Hall effect under opposite displacement fields suggests that it may originate from domain boundaries between the Bernal and rhombohedral regions. Our discovery paves the way for on-demand toggling of quantum phases based on the sliding phase transition of 2D materials and offers a playground to explore unconventional physics at the stacking domain boundaries. |
| title | Nonvolatile Switching of Magnetism via Gate-Induced Sliding in Tetralayer Graphene |
| topic | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00220 |