• 文献标题:   Charge Inversion and Topological Phase Transition at a Twist Angle Induced van Hove Singularity of Bilayer Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   KIM Y, HERLINGER P, MOON P, KOSHINO M, TANIGUCHI T, WATANABE K, SMET JH
  • 作者关键词:   twisted bilayer graphene, van hove singularity, moire superlattice, topological transition
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
  • 通讯作者地址:   Max Planck Inst Festkorperforsch
  • 被引频次:   32
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b01906
  • 出版年:   2016

▎ 摘  要

van Hove singularities (VHS's) in the density of states play an outstanding and diverse role for the electronic and thermodynamic properties of crystalline solids. At the critical point the Fermi surface connectivity changes, and topological properties undergo a transition. Opportunities to systematically pass a VHS at the turn of a voltage knob and study its diverse impact are however rare. With the advent of van der Waals heterostructures, control over the atomic registry of neighboring graphene layers offers an unprecedented tool to generate a low energy VHS easily accessible with conventional gating. Here we have addressed magnetotransport when the chemical potential crosses the twist angle induced VHS in twisted bilayer graphene. A topological phase transition is experimentally disclosed in the abrupt conversion of electrons to holes or vice versa, a loss of a nonzero Berry phase and distinct sequences of integer quantum Hall states above and below the singularity.