• 文献标题:   Helical quantum Hall phase in graphene on SrTiO3
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   VEYRAT L, DEPREZ C, COISSARD A, LI XX, GAY F, WATANABE K, TANIGUCHI T, HAN Z, PIOT BA, SELLIER H, SACEPE B
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  • 出版物名称:   SCIENCE
  • ISSN:   0036-8075 EI 1095-9203
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Grenoble Alpes
  • 被引频次:   4
  • DOI:   10.1126/science.aax8201
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

The ground state of charge-neutral graphene under perpendicular magnetic field was predicted to be a quantum Hall topological insulator with a ferromagnetic order and spin-filtered, helical edge channels. In most experiments, however, an insulating state is observed that is accounted for by lattice-scale interactions that promote a broken-symmetry state with gapped bulk and edge excitations. We tuned the ground state of the graphene zeroth Landau level to the topological phase through a suitable screening of the Coulomb interaction with the high dielectric constant of a strontium titanate (SrTiO3) substrate. Robust helical edge transport emerged at magnetic fields as low as 1 tesla and withstanding temperatures up to 110 kelvin over micron-long distances. This versatile graphene platform may find applications in spintronics and topological quantum computation.