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Higher-order Bragg gaps in the electronic band structure of bilayer graphene renormalized by recursive supermoiré potential

arXiv:2304.01720 · doi:10.1038/s41467-024-46672-3

Abstract

This letter presents our findings on the recursive band gap engineering of chiral fermions in bilayer graphene doubly aligned with hBN. By utilizing two interfering moiré potentials, we generate a supermoiré pattern which renormalizes the electronic bands of the pristine bilayer graphene, resulting in higher-order fractal gaps even at very low energies. These Bragg gaps can be mapped using a unique linear combination of periodic areas within the system. To validate our findings, we used electronic transport measurements to identify the position of these gaps as functions of the carrier density and establish their agreement with the predicted carrier densities and corresponding quantum numbers obtained using the continuum model. Our work provides direct experimental evidence of the quantization of the area of quasi-Brillouin zones in supermoiré systems. It fills essential gaps in understanding the band structure engineering of Dirac fermions by a recursive doubly periodic superlattice potential.

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