• 文献标题:   High-order minibands and interband Landau level reconstruction in graphene moire superlattices
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LU XB, TANG J, WALLBANK JR, WANG SP, SHEN C, WU S, CHEN P, YANG W, ZHANG J, WATANABE K, TANIGUCHI T, YANG R, SHI DX, EFETOV DK, FAL KO VI, ZHANG GY
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   Chinese Acad Sci
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.102.045409
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

The propagation of Dirac fermions in graphene through a long-period periodic potential would result in a band folding together with the emergence of a series of cloned Dirac points (DPs) [C.-H. Park et al., Nat. Phys. 4, 213 (2008); Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 126804 (2008)]. In highly aligned graphene/hexagonal boron nitride (G/hBN) heterostructures, the lattice mismatch between the two atomic crystals generates a unique kind of periodic structure known as a moire superlattice. Of particular interest is the emergent phenomena related to the reconstructed band-structure of graphene, such as the Hofstadter butterfly [L. A. Ponomarenko et al., Nature (London) 497, 594 (2013); B. Hunt et al., Science 340, 1427 (2013); C. R. Dean et al., Nature(London) 497, 598 (2013)], topological currents [R. V Gorbachev et al., Science 346, 448 (2014)], gate-dependent pseudospin mixing [Z. Shi et al., Nat. Phys. 10, 743 (2014)], and ballistic miniband conduction [M. Lee et al., Science 353, 1526 (2016)]. However, most studies so far have been limited to the lower-order minibands, e.g., the first and second minibands counted from charge neutrality, and consequently the fundamental nature of the reconstructed higher-order miniband spectra still remains largely unknown. Here we report on probing the higher-order minibands of precisely aligned graphene moire superlattices by transport spectroscopy. Using dual electrostatic gating, the edges of these high-orderminibands, i.e., the third and fourth minibands, can be reached. Interestingly, we have observed interband Landau level (LL) crossing inducing gap closures in a multiband magnetotransport regime, which originates from band overlap between the second and third minibands. As observed, high-order minibands and LL reconstruction qualitatively match our simulated results.