• 文献标题:   Quantum parity Hall effect in Bernal-stacked trilayer graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   STEPANOV P, BARLAS Y, CHE S, MYHRO K, VOIGT G, PI ZQ, WATANABE K, TANIGUCHI T, SMIRNOV D, ZHANG F, LAKE RK, MACDONALD AH, LAU CN
  • 作者关键词:   2d material, quantum hall effect, topological insulator, symmetryprotected phase, trilayer graphene
  • 出版物名称:   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
  • ISSN:   0027-8424
  • 通讯作者地址:   Ohio State Univ
  • 被引频次:   3
  • DOI:   10.1073/pnas.1820835116
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

The quantum Hall effect has recently been generalized from transport of conserved charges to include transport of other approximately conserved-state variables, including spin and valley, via spin-or valley-polarized boundary states with different chiralities. Here, we report a class of quantum Hall effect in Bernal-or ABA-stacked trilayer graphene (TLG), the quantum parity Hall (QPH) effect, in which boundary channels are distinguished by even or odd parity under the system's mirror reflection symmetry. At the charge neutrality point, the longitudinal conductance sigma(xx) is first quantized to 4e(2)/h at a small perpendicular magnetic field B-perpendicular to, establishing the presence of four edge channels. As B-perpendicular to increases, sigma(xx) first decreases to 2e(2)/h, indicating spin-polarized counterpropagating edge states, and then, to approximately zero. These behaviors arise from level crossings between even-and odd-parity bulk Landau levels driven by exchange interactions with the underlying Fermi sea, which favor an ordinary insulator ground state in the strong B-perpendicular to limit and a spin-polarized state at intermediate fields. The transitions between spin-polarized and -unpolarized states can be tuned by varying Zeeman energy. Our findings demonstrate a topological phase that is protected by a gate-controllable symmetry and sensitive to Coulomb interactions.