Programmable Quantum Anomalous Hall Insulator in Twisted Crystalline Flatbands

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Authors: Wenxuan Wang, Yijie Wang, Zaizhe Zhang, Zihao Huo, Gengdong Zhou, Shu Zhang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Xiaoxia Yang, Qing Dai, X. C. Xie, Kaihui Liu
+2 more Zhida Song, Xiaobo Lu
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Abstract

The isospin flavors in condensed matters can be continuously broken, forming various symmetry-broken quantum states. In moiré crystals, the competition between different isospin configurations can be effectively tuned by the twist angles and stacking orders. Here we report twisted double rhombohedral-trilayer-graphene as a new twisted crystalline flatband system showing rich moiré dependent topological phenomena. In devices with small twist angles, programmable Chern insulators with Chern number C = 3 at integer moiré filling v = 1 have been observed. We have further revealed an exotic hidden order which can quench the Chern insulator as well as multiple first-order transitions between different symmetry-broken phases. Interestly, in the device with a slightly larger twist angle, multiple Chern insulators with C = 1 at fractional moiré fillings including v = 1 / 4 , 1 / 3 , and 1 / 2 have been observed, whereas the Chern insulator at v = 1 is absent. Our study demonstrated the twisted flatbands form rhombohedral-multilayer-graphene as a new platform to study tunable high Chern insulators as well as new devices for quantum storage and computation.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Topological Materials and Phenomena Graphene research and applications Quantum and electron transport phenomena

Publication details

Journal / source
Physical Review X
Publisher
American Physical Society (APS)
Volume
16
Issue
1
Publication date
6 January 2026
Language
EN