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Publications (47)

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Topological flat bands in a family of multilayer graphene moiré lattices

Dacen Waters, Ruiheng Su, Ellis Thompson +10

Moiré materials host a wealth of intertwined correlated and topological states of matter, all arising from flat electronic bands with nontrivial quantum geometry. A prominent exam…

cond-mat.mes-hall2013

Local Spectroscopy of the Electrically Tunable Band Gap in Trilayer Graphene

Matthew Yankowitz, Fenglin Wang, Chun Ning Lau +1

The stacking order degree of freedom in trilayer graphene plays a critical role in determining the existence of an electric field tunable band gap. We present spatially-resolved tu…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Microwave Imaging of Edge Conductivity in Graphene at Charge Neutrality and Quantum Hall States

Hongtao Yan, Chun-Chih Tseng, Anzhuoer Li +8

We report local conductivity imaging of edge states in monolayer graphene by millikelvin microwave impedance microscopy (MIM). At the charge-neutrality point, as the magnetic field…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017

Evolution of the electronic band structure of twisted bilayer graphene upon doping

Shengqiang Huang, Matthew Yankowitz, Kanokporn Chattrakun +2

The electronic band structure of twisted bilayer graphene develops van Hove singularities whose energy depends on the twist angle between the two layers. Using Raman spectroscopy,…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017

Dynamic band structure tuning of graphene moiré superlattices with pressure

Matthew Yankowitz, Jeil Jung, Evan Laksono +7

Heterostructures of atomically-thin materials have attracted significant interest owing to their ability to host novel electronic properties fundamentally distinct from their const…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Anomalous metal and superconducting phases in rhombohedral graphene

Anna Okounkova, Abigail Sohm, Tobias Faehndrich +7

The paper investigates gate‑tuned regions in rhombohedral graphene on a WSe₂ substrate that show either zero‑resistance superconductivity or a finite‑resistance “anomalous metal” s…

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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Unraveling intrinsic flexoelectricity in twisted double bilayer graphene

Yuhao Li, Xiao Wang, Deqi Tang +8

Moiré superlattices of two-dimensional (2D) materials with a small twist angle are thought to exhibit appreciable flexoelectric effect, though unambiguous confirmation of their fl…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018

Magic Angle Spectroscopy

Alexander Kerelsky, Leo McGilly, Dante M. Kennes +9

The electronic properties of heterostructures of atomically-thin van der Waals (vdW) crystals can be modified substantially by Moiré superlattice potentials arising from an interl…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Visualizing the microscopic origins of topology in twisted molybdenum ditelluride

Ellis Thompson, Keng Tou Chu, Florie Mesple +14

In moiré materials with flat electronic bands and suitable quantum geometry, strong correlations can give rise to novel topological states of matter. The nontrivial band topology…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020

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

Shaowen Chen, Minhao He, Ya-Hui Zhang +8

Twisted van der Waals heterostructures with flat electronic bands have recently emerged as a platform for realizing correlated and topological states with an extraordinary degree o…

cond-mat.supr-con2026

Record magnetoresistance, enhanced superconductivity, and fermiology in WTe2

Gianluca Delgado, Elliott Runburg, Chaowei Hu +12

The diverse electronic properties of transition metal chalcogenides can be very sensitive to crystal imperfections. A new crystal growth technique, known as horizontal flux transpo…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017

Ambipolar Landau levels and strong band-selective carrier interactions in monolayer WSe

Martin V. Gustafsson, Matthew Yankowitz, Carlos Forsythe +6

Monolayers (MLs) of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit unusual electrical behavior under magnetic fields due to their intrinsic spin-orbit coupling and lack of inversi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023

Symmetry-broken Chern insulators in twisted double bilayer graphene

Minhao He, Jiaqi Cai, Ya-Hui Zhang +7

Twisted double bilayer graphene (tDBG) has emerged as an especially rich platform for studying strongly correlated and topological states of matter. The material features moiré ba…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014

Band Structure Mapping of Bilayer Graphene via Quasiparticle Scattering

Matthew Yankowitz, Joel I-Jan Wang, Suchun Li +7

A perpendicular electric field breaks the layer symmetry of Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene, resulting in the opening of a band gap and a modification of the effective mass of the…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022

Gate-tunable proximity effects in graphene on layered magnetic insulators

Chun-Chih Tseng, Tiancheng Song, Qianni Jiang +11

The extreme versatility of two-dimensional van der Waals (vdW) materials derives from their ability to exhibit new electronic properties when assembled in proximity with dissimilar…

physics.ins-det2024

Continuously tunable uniaxial strain control of van der Waals heterostructure devices

Zhaoyu Liu, Xuetao Ma, John Cenker +13

Uniaxial strain has been widely used as a powerful tool for investigating and controlling the properties of quantum materials. However, existing strain techniques have so far mostl…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Valleytronics in 2D Materials Roadmap

Kyle L. Seyler, Giancarlo Soavi, Bent Weber +30

Valleytronics exploits non-equivalent energy extrema in the electronic band structure of crystalline solids -- the valley degree of freedom -- to encode, manipulate, and read out i…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Topological electronic crystals in twisted bilayer-trilayer graphene

Ruiheng Su, Dacen Waters, Boran Zhou +5

In a dilute two-dimensional electron gas, Coulomb interactions can stabilize the formation of a Wigner crystal. Although Wigner crystals are topologically trivial, it has been pred…

cond-mat.mes-hall2012

Emergence of Superlattice Dirac Points in Graphene on Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Matthew Yankowitz, Jiamin Xue, Daniel Cormode +6

The Schrödinger equation dictates that the propagation of nearly free electrons through a weak periodic potential results in the opening of band gaps near points of the reciprocal…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019

Switching 2D Magnetic States via Pressure Tuning of Layer Stacking

Tiancheng Song, Zaiyao Fei, Matthew Yankowitz +15

The physical properties of two-dimensional van der Waals (2D vdW) crystals depend sensitively on the interlayer coupling, which is intimately connected to the stacking arrangement…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014

Graphene on Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Matthew Yankowitz, Jiamin Xue, Brian J. LeRoy

The field of graphene research has developed rapidly since its first isolation by mechanical exfoliation in 2004. Due to the relativistic Dirac nature of its charge carriers, graph…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Sliding Disassembly of van der Waals Heterostructures

Jordan Pack, Karl V. Falb, Sanat Ghosh +13

Many recent advances in our understanding of two-dimensional (2D) electron systems stem from van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures. The assembly process relies on the weak bonding a…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021

Abrupt switching of the anomalous Hall effect by field-rotation in nonmagnetic ZrTe5

Joshua Mutch, Xuetao Ma, Chong Wang +7

The Hall effect arises when time reversal symmetry is broken by either intrinsic magnetism or an external magnetic field. The latter contribution dominates in non-magnetic material…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Low-lying Electronic Structure of Rare-Earth Based Topological Nodal Line Semimetal Candidate DySbTe

Nathan Valadez, Iftakhar Bin Elius, Dante James +11

Lanthanide (Ln) based LnSbTe materials have garnered significant attention due to rich interplay of long range magnetic ordering and topological properties, driven by unique crysta…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Pervasive spin-triplet superconductivity in rhombohedral graphene

Manish Kumar, Derek Waleffe, Anna Okounkova +6

Magnetic fields typically suppress superconductivity once the Zeeman energy exceeds the pairing gap, unless mechanisms such as unconventional pairing, strong spin-orbit coupling, o…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022

Anomalous Hall effect at half filling in twisted bilayer graphene

Chun-Chih Tseng, Xuetao Ma, Zhaoyu Liu +4

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) has been studied extensively owing to its wealth of symmetry-broken phases, correlated Chern insulators, orbital magnetism, and supercon…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021

Unusual magnetotransport in twisted bilayer graphene

Joe Finney, Aaron L. Sharpe, Eli J. Fox +10

We present transport measurements of bilayer graphene with 1.38° interlayer twist and apparent additional alignment to its hexagonal boron nitride cladding. As with other devices…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Giant elastoresistance in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

Xuetao Ma, Zhaoyu Liu, Jiaqi Cai +5

Strongly correlated and topological phases in moiré materials are exquisitely sensitive to lattice geometry at both atomic and superlattice length scales. Twist angle, pressure, a…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

The 2D Materials Roadmap

Wencai Ren, Peter Bøggild, Joan Redwing +70

Over the past two decades, 2D materials have rapidly evolved into a diverse and expanding family of material platforms. Many members of this materials class have demonstrated their…

cond-mat.str-el2021

Competing correlated states and abundant orbital magnetism in twisted monolayer-bilayer graphene

Minhao He, Ya-Hui Zhang, Yuhao Li +5

Flat band moiré superlattices have recently emerged as unique platforms for investigating the interplay between strong electronic correlations, nontrivial band topology, and multi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Strongly interacting Hofstadter states in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

Minhao He, Xiaoyu Wang, Jiaqi Cai +8

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) hosts a multitude of strongly correlated states at partial fillings of its flat bands. In a magnetic field, these flat bands further ev…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017

Pressure-induced commensurate stacking of graphene on boron nitride

Matthew Yankowitz, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi +2

Combining atomically-thin van der Waals materials into heterostructures provides a powerful path towards the creation of designer electronic devices. The interaction strength betwe…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Interplay of electronic crystals with integer and fractional Chern insulators in moiré pentalayer graphene

Dacen Waters, Anna Okounkova, Ruiheng Su +8

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…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023

Dynamically tunable moiré Rydberg excitons in a monolayer semiconductor on twisted bilayer graphene

Minhao He, Jiaqi Cai, Huiyuan Zheng +8

Moiré excitons are emergent optical excitations in 2D semiconductors with deep moiré superlattice potentials. While these excitations have been realized in several platforms, a s…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Single-gate tracking behavior in flat-band multilayer graphene devices

Kryštof Kolář, Dacen Waters, Joshua Folk +2

A central feature of many van der Waals (vdW) materials is the ability to precisely control their charge doping, , and electric displacement field, , using top and bottom gat…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014

Intrinsic disorder in graphene on transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures

Matthew Yankowitz, Stefano Larentis, Kyounghwan Kim +8

The electronic properties of two-dimensional materials such as graphene are extremely sensitive to their environment, especially the underlying substrate. Planar van der Waals bond…

cond-mat.str-el2024

Electronic interactions in Dirac fluids visualized by nano-terahertz spacetime interference of electron-photon quasiparticles

Suheng Xu, Yutao Li, Rocco A. Vitalone +15

Ultraclean graphene at charge neutrality hosts a quantum critical Dirac fluid of interacting electrons and holes. Interactions profoundly affect the charge dynamics of graphene, wh…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Observing the Birth of Rydberg Exciton Fermi Polarons on a Moire Fermi Sea

Eric A. Arsenault, Gillian E. Minarik, Jiaqi Cai +8

The optical spectra of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are dominated by tightly bound excitons and trions. In the low doping limit, trions are often described as three-body qua…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014

Electric Field Control of Soliton Motion and Stacking in Trilayer Graphene

Matthew Yankowitz, Joel I-Jan Wang, A. Glen Birdwell +7

The crystal structure of a material plays an important role in determining its electronic properties. Changing from one crystal structure to another involves a phase transition whi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022

Mixed-dimensional moiré systems of graphitic thin films with a twisted interface

Dacen Waters, Ellis Thompson, Esmeralda Arreguin-Martinez +7

Moiré patterns formed by stacking atomically-thin van der Waals crystals with a relative twist angle can give rise to dramatic new physical properties. The study of moiré materia…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019

Tunable crystal symmetry in graphene-boron nitride heterostructures with coexisting moiré superlattices

Nathan R. Finney, Matthew Yankowitz, Lithurshanaa Muraleetharan +4

In heterostructures consisting of atomically thin crystals layered on top of one another, lattice mismatch or rotation between the layers results in long-wavelength moiré superlat…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015

Local Spectroscopic Characterization of Spin and Layer Polarization in WSe

Matthew Yankowitz, Devin McKenzie, Brian J. LeRoy

We report scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and spectroscopy (STS) measurements of monolayer and bilayer WSe. We measure a band gap of 2.21 0.08 eV in monolayer WSe

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Observation of momentum dependent charge density wave gap in EuTe4

Iftakhar Bin Elius, Nathan Valadez, Gyanendra Dhakal +10

The occurrence of charge density wave (CDW) phenomena, particularly in low dimensional rare-earth chalcogenides, has attracted substantial research interest. Among these materials,…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

On the origin of anomalous hysteresis in graphite/boron nitride transistors

Dacen Waters, Derek Waleffe, Ellis Thompson +9

Field-effect devices constructed by stacking flakes of van der Waals (vdW) materials, with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) playing the role of gate dielectric, often exhibit virtuall…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Superconductivity from dual-surface carriers in rhombohedral graphene

Manish Kumar, Derek Waleffe, Anna Okounkova +7

Intrinsic rhombohedral graphene hosts an unusual low-energy electronic wavefunction, predominantly localized at its outer crystal faces with negligible presence in the bulk. Increa…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020

Tunable correlation-driven symmetry breaking in twisted double bilayer graphene

Minhao He, Yuhao Li, Jiaqi Cai +5

A variety of correlated phases have recently emerged in select twisted van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures owing to their flat electronic dispersions. In particular, heterostructu…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018

Tuning superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene

Matthew Yankowitz, Shaowen Chen, Hryhoriy Polshyn +5

Materials with flat electronic bands often exhibit exotic quantum phenomena owing to strong correlations. Remarkably, an isolated low-energy flat band can be induced in bilayer gra…