• 文献标题:   Long-range ballistic transport of Brown-Zak fermions in graphene superlattices
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   BARRIER J, KUMARAVADIVEL P, KUMAR RK, PONOMARENKO LA, XIN N, HOLWILL M, MULLAN C, KIM M, GORBACHEV RV, THOMPSON MD, PRANCE JR, TANIGUCHI T, WATANABE K, GRIGORIEVA IV, NOVOSELOV KS, MISHCHENKO A, FAL KO VI, GEIM AK, BERDYUGIN AI
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  • 出版物名称:   NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
  • ISSN:   2041-1723
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Manchester
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1038/s41467-020-19604-0
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

In quantizing magnetic fields, graphene superlattices exhibit a complex fractal spectrum often referred to as the Hofstadter butterfly. It can be viewed as a collection of Landau levels that arise from quantization of Brown-Zak minibands recurring at rational (p/q) fractions of the magnetic flux quantum per superlattice unit cell. Here we show that, in graphene-on-boron-nitride superlattices, Brown-Zak fermions can exhibit mobilities above 10(6)cm(2)V(-1)s(-1) and the mean free path exceeding several micrometers. The exceptional quality of our devices allows us to show that Brown-Zak minibands are 4q times degenerate and all the degeneracies (spin, valley and mini-valley) can be lifted by exchange interactions below 1K. We also found negative bend resistance at 1/q fractions for electrical probes placed as far as several micrometers apart. The latter observation highlights the fact that Brown-Zak fermions are Bloch quasiparticles propagating in high fields along straight trajectories, just like electrons in zero field. Here, the authors show that Brown-Zak fermions in graphene-on-boron-nitride superlattices exhibit mobilities above 10(6)cm(2)/V s and micrometer scale ballistic transport.