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most citedSecond generation Dirac cones and inversion symmetry breaking induced gaps in graphene/hexagonal boron nitride

225 citations · 1.3k across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Fractional High-Chern Insulator in Twisted Rhombohedral Graphene

Zexu Li, Wenxuan Wang, Fajie Wang +9

The realization of fractional Chern insulators opens up the possibility of exploring fractionally charged excitations and anyonic statistics in the absence of a magnetic field. A c…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Correlated Charge Density Wave Insulators in Chirally Twisted Triple Bilayer Graphene

Wenxuan Wang, Gengdong Zhou, Wenlu Lin +16

Electrons residing in flat-band system can play a vital role in triggering spectacular phenomenology due to relatively large interactions and spontaneous breaking of different dege…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Correlated insulators and charge density wave states in chirally twisted triple bilayer graphene

Geng-Dong Zhou, Yi-Jie Wang, Wen-Xuan Wang +2

Motivated by recent experimental observations of displacement-field-tuned correlated insulators at integer and half-integer fillings in chirally twisted triple bilayer graphene (CT…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 4 cited

Tunable Fractional Chern Insulators in Rhombohedral Graphene Superlattices

Jian Xie, Zihao Huo, Xin Lu +11

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) showing a transport effect with fractionally quantized Hall plateaus emerging under zero magnetic field, provide a radically new opportunity to e…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 2 cited

Multi-Meron Interactions and Statistics in Two-Dimensional Materials

Xiaobo Lu, Linghan Zhu, Li Yang

As a fundamental type of topological spin textures in two-dimensional (2D) magnets, a magnetic meron carries half-integer topological charge and forms a pair with its antithesis to…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 185 cited

Quantum critical behavior in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

Alexandre Jaoui, Ipsita Das, Giorgio Di Battista +7

The flat bands of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) host strongly-correlated electronic phases such as correlated insulators, superconductors and a strange-metal state.…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021

Tunable quantum confinement of neutral excitons using electric fields and exciton-charge interactions

Deepankur Thureja, Atac Imamoglu, Tomasz Smolenski +10

Quantum confinement is the discretization of energy when motion of particles is restricted to length scales smaller than their de Broglie wavelength. The experimental realization o…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 159 cited

Competing zero-field Chern insulators in Superconducting Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Petr Stepanov, Ming Xie, Takashi Taniguchi +5

The discovery of magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) has unveiled a rich variety of superconducting, magnetic and topologically nontrivial phases. The existence of all the…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 199 cited

Symmetry broken Chern insulators and magic series of Rashba-like Landau level crossings in magic angle bilayer graphene

Ipsita Das, Xiaobo Lu, Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman +5

Flat-bands in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) have recently emerged as a rich platform to explore strong correlations, superconductivity and mag-netism. However, the p…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 34 cited

Ultra-fast calorimetric measurements of the electronic heat capacity of graphene

Mohammed Ali Aamir, John N. Moore, Xiaobo Lu +4

Heat capacity is an invaluable quantity in condensed matter physics, yet it has been so far experimentally inaccessible in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials, owing…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 80 cited

Multiple Flat Bands and Topological Hofstadter Butterfly in Twisted Bilayer Graphene Close to the Second Magic Angle

Xiaobo Lu, Biao Lian, Gaurav Chaudhary +8

Moiré superlattices in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures provide 20 an efficient way to engineer electron band properties. The recent discovery of exotic qu…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 84 cited

A graphene Zener-Klein transistor cooled by a hyperbolic substrate

W. Yang, S. Berthou, X. Lu +11

Engineering of cooling mechanisms is a bottleneck in nanoelectronics. Whereas thermal exchanges in diffusive graphene are mostly driven by defect assisted acoustic phonon scatterin…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 225 cited

Second generation Dirac cones and inversion symmetry breaking induced gaps in graphene/hexagonal boron nitride

Eryin Wang, Xiaobo Lu, Shijie Ding +12

Graphene/h-BN has emerged as a model van der Waals heterostructure, and the band structure engineering by the superlattice potential has led to various novel quantum phenomena incl…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 89 cited

Switchable friction enabled by nanoscale self-assembly on graphene

Patrick Gallagher, Menyoung Lee, Francois Amet +8

Graphene monolayers are known to display domains of anisotropic friction with twofold symmetry and anisotropy exceeding 200 percent. This anisotropy has been thought to originate f…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 185 cited

Observation of an intrinsic bandgap and Landau level renormalization in graphene/boron-nitride heterostructures

Zhi-Guo Chen, Zhiwen Shi, Wei Yang +6

Van der Waals heterostructures formed by assembling different two-dimensional atomic crystals into stacks can lead to many new phenomena and device functionalities. In particular,…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 81 cited

Gate-dependent Pseudospin Mixing in Graphene/Boron Nitride Moire Superlattices

Zhiwen Shi, Chenhao Jin, Wei Yang +13

Electrons in graphene are described by relativistic Dirac-Weyl spinors with a two-component pseudospin1-12. The unique pseudospin structure of Dirac electrons leads to emerging phe…