At our weekly “Flat Club” in Geneva I presented on Friday 11 October the latest experiments from Andrea Young’s group, who observed the quantum anomalous Hall effect in twisted bilayer graphene. Download my slides here (PDF).
Title: Quantum Anomalous Hall effect in Twisted Bilayer Graphene
Abstract: A recent experiment brings together many topics discussed in earlier Flat Club meetings: namely the observation of a Quantum Anomalous Hall effect in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene aligned with hBN. In order to understand these results, we will discuss first the concept of a Chern insulator, its response in a magnetic field, and the role of ferromagnetism. Next, we will discuss how the alignment of hBN with twisted graphene opens up the possibility of creating a ferromagnetic Chern insulator. We will end with the experiments by the Young group who observed a QAH with a quantized rho_xy within 0.1% of h/e^2.To read:
Serlin et al., Intrinsic quantized anomalous Hall effect in a moiré heterostructure, https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.00261