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Tunable transmission of quantum Hall edge channels with full degeneracy lifting in split-gated graphene devices

arXiv:1605.08673 · doi:10.1038/ncomms14983

Abstract

Charge carriers in the quantum Hall regime propagate via one-dimensional conducting channels that form along the edges of a two-dimensional electron gas. Controlling their transmission through a gate-tunable constriction, also called quantum point contact (QPC), is fundamental for many coherent transport experiments. However, in graphene, tailoring a QPC with electrostatic gates remains challenging due to the formation of p-n junctions below gate electrodes along which electron and hole edge channels co-propagate and mix, short-circuiting the constriction. Here we show that this electron-hole mixing is drastically reduced in high mobility boron-nitride/graphene/boron-nitride van-der-Waals heterostructures thanks to the full degeneracy lifting of the Landau levels, enabling QPC operation with full channel pinch-off. We demonstrate gate-tunable selective transmission of quantum Hall edge channels through the QPC, both in the integer and the fractional quantum Hall regimes. This gate-control of edge channel propagation in graphene van-der-Waals heterostructures opens the door to quantum Hall interferometry and electron quantum optics experiments in the integer and fractional quantum Hall regimes of graphene.

New data in the fractional quantum Hall regime added

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