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Landau Levels as a Probe for Band Topology in Graphene Moire Superlattices

Wu, QuanSheng  
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Liu, Jianpeng
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Guan, Yifei  
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February 3, 2021
Physical Review Letters

We propose Landau levels as a probe for the topological character of electronic bands in two-dimensional moire superlattices. We consider two configurations of twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG) that have very similar band structures, but show different valley Chern numbers of the flat bands. These differences between the AB-AB and AB-BA configurations of TDBG clearly manifest as different Landau level sequences in the Hofstadter butterfly spectra calculated using the tight-binding model. The Landau level sequences are explained from the point of view of the distribution of orbital magnetization in momentum space that is governed by the rotational C-2 and time-reversal T symmetries. Our results can be readily extended to other twisted graphene multilayers and h-BN/graphene heterostructures thus establishing the Hofstadter butterfly spectra as a powerful tool for detecting the nontrivial valley band topology.

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DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.056401
Web of Science ID

WOS:000614275000001

Author(s)
Wu, QuanSheng  
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Liu, Jianpeng
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Guan, Yifei  
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Yazyev, Oleg, V  
Date Issued

2021-02-03

Publisher

AMER PHYSICAL SOC

Published in
Physical Review Letters
Volume

126

Issue

5

Article Number

056401

Subjects

Physics, Multidisciplinary

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Physics

Peer reviewed

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March 26, 2021
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