• 文献标题:   Spontaneous Gully-Polarized Quantum Hall States in ABA Trilayer Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   WINTERER F, SEILER AM, GHAZARYAN A, GEISENHOF FR, WATANABE K, TANIGUCHI T, SERBYN M, WEITZ RT
  • 作者关键词:   multilayer graphene, quantum hall effect, dirac gullie, spontaneous symmetry breaking
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
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  • 被引频次:   1
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c00435
  • 出版年:   2022

▎ 摘  要

Bernal-stacked multilayer graphene is a versatileplatform to explore quantum transport phenomena and interactionphysics due to its exceptional tunability via electrostatic gating. Forinstance, upon applying a perpendicular electricfield, its bandstructure exhibits several off-center Dirac points (so-called Diracgullies) in each valley. Here, the formation of Dirac gullies and theinteraction-induced breakdown of gully coherence is explored viamagnetotransport measurements in high-quality Bernal-stacked(ABA) trilayer graphene. At zero magneticfield, multiple Lifshitztransitions indicating the formation of Dirac gullies are identified.In the quantum Hall regime, the emergence of Dirac gullies isevident as an increase in Landau level degeneracy. When tuningboth electric and magneticfields, electron-electron interactionscan be controllably enhanced until, beyond critical electric and magneticfields, the gully degeneracy is eventually lifted. The arisingcorrelated ground state is consistent with a previously predicted nematic phase that spontaneously breaks the rotational gully symmetry