Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Bulk valley transport and Berry curvature spreading at the edge of flat bands

  • Subhajit Sinha,
  • Pratap Chandra Adak,
  • R. S. Surya Kanthi,
  • Bheema Lingam Chittari,
  • L. D. Varma Sangani,
  • Kenji Watanabe,
  • Takashi Taniguchi,
  • Jeil Jung,
  • Mandar M. Deshmukh

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19284-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Spontaneous symmetry breaking of flat bands in twisted graphene systems may lead to anomalous Hall effect with a precursor state which has not been observed. Here, the authors probe this precursor state by observing bulk valley current and large nonlocal voltage several micrometers away from the charge current path in twisted double bilayer graphene.