Intrinsic quantized anomalous Hall effect in a moiré heterostructure

Serlin M, Tschirhart CL, Polshyn H, Zhang Y, Zhu J, Watanabe K, Taniguchi T, Balents L, Young AF. 2019. Intrinsic quantized anomalous Hall effect in a moiré heterostructure. Science. 367(6480), 900–903.

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Serlin, M.; Tschirhart, C. L.; Polshyn, HryhoriyISTA ; Zhang, Y.; Zhu, J.; Watanabe, K.; Taniguchi, T.; Balents, L.; Young, A. F.
Abstract
The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect combines topology and magnetism to produce precisely quantized Hall resistance at zero magnetic field. We report the observation of a QAH effect in twisted bilayer graphene aligned to hexagonal boron nitride. The effect is driven by intrinsic strong interactions, which polarize the electrons into a single spin- and valley-resolved moiré miniband with Chern number C = 1. In contrast to magnetically doped systems, the measured transport energy gap is larger than the Curie temperature for magnetic ordering, and quantization to within 0.1% of the von Klitzing constant persists to temperatures of several kelvin at zero magnetic field. Electrical currents as small as 1 nanoampere controllably switch the magnetic order between states of opposite polarization, forming an electrically rewritable magnetic memory.
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2019-12-19
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Science
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The authors acknowledge discussions with A. Macdonald, Y. Saito, and M. Zaletel.
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367
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6480
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900-903
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Serlin M, Tschirhart CL, Polshyn H, et al. Intrinsic quantized anomalous Hall effect in a moiré heterostructure. Science. 2019;367(6480):900-903. doi:10.1126/science.aay5533
Serlin, M., Tschirhart, C. L., Polshyn, H., Zhang, Y., Zhu, J., Watanabe, K., … Young, A. F. (2019). Intrinsic quantized anomalous Hall effect in a moiré heterostructure. Science. American Association for the Advancement of Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aay5533
Serlin, M., C. L. Tschirhart, Hryhoriy Polshyn, Y. Zhang, J. Zhu, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, L. Balents, and A. F. Young. “Intrinsic Quantized Anomalous Hall Effect in a Moiré Heterostructure.” Science. American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aay5533.
M. Serlin et al., “Intrinsic quantized anomalous Hall effect in a moiré heterostructure,” Science, vol. 367, no. 6480. American Association for the Advancement of Science, pp. 900–903, 2019.
Serlin M, Tschirhart CL, Polshyn H, Zhang Y, Zhu J, Watanabe K, Taniguchi T, Balents L, Young AF. 2019. Intrinsic quantized anomalous Hall effect in a moiré heterostructure. Science. 367(6480), 900–903.
Serlin, M., et al. “Intrinsic Quantized Anomalous Hall Effect in a Moiré Heterostructure.” Science, vol. 367, no. 6480, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2019, pp. 900–03, doi:10.1126/science.aay5533.
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