Kagomé network of chiral miniband-edge states in double-aligned graphene-hexagonal boron nitride structures
arXiv:2202.06667 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.105.L201112
Abstract
Twistronic heterostructures have recently emerged as a new class of quantum electronic materials with properties determined by the twist angle between the adjacent two-dimensional materials. Here we study moiré superlattice minibands in graphene (G) encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) with an almost perfect alignment with both the top and bottom hBN crystals. We show that, for such an orientation of the unit cells of the hBN layers that locally breaks inversion symmetry of the graphene lattice, the hBN/G/hBN structure features a Kagomé network of topologically protected chiral states with energies near the miniband edge, propagating along the lines separating the areas with different miniband Chern numbers.
arXiv comment6 pages, 3 figures (Supplemental Material: 7 pages, 5 figures, 1 table)
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