# Moiré-driven topological electronic crystals in twisted graphene

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2026-08-04T23:52:15.407310Z

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08239-6

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2025-01-30

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2025-1-30

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## Title

- title: Moiré-driven topological electronic crystals in twisted graphene
  title_type: original
  lang: en

## Description

- description: In a dilute two-dimensional electron gas, Coulomb interactions can
    stabilize the formation of a Wigner crystal. Although Wigner crystals are topologically
    trivial, it has been predicted that electrons in a partially filled band can break
    continuous translational symmetry and time-reversal symmetry spontaneously, resulting
    in a type of topological electron crystal known as an anomalous Hall crystal.
    Here we report signatures of a generalized version of the anomalous Hall crystal
    in twisted bilayer–trilayer graphene, whose formation is driven by the moiré potential.
    The crystal forms at a band filling of one electron per four moiré unit cells
    (ν = 1/4) and quadruples the unit-cell area, coinciding with an integer quantum
    anomalous Hall effect. The Chern number of the state is exceptionally tunable,
    and it can be switched reversibly between +1 and −1 by electric and magnetic fields.
    Several other topological electronic crystals arise in a modest magnetic field,
    originating from ν = 1/3, 1/2, 2/3 and 3/2. The quantum geometry of the interaction-modified
    bands is likely to be very different from that of the original parent band, which
    enables possible future discoveries of correlation-driven topological phenomena.
  description_type: abstract
  lang: en

## Creator

- name: Ruiheng Su
  role: author
- name: Dacen Waters
  role: author
- name: Boran Zhou
  role: author
- name: Kenji Watanabe
  role: author
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3701-8119
  organization: National Institute for Materials Science
- name: Takashi Taniguchi
  role: author
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1467-3105
  organization: National Institute for Materials Science
- name: Ya-Hui Zhang
  role: author
- name: Matthew Yankowitz
  role: author
- name: Joshua Folk
  role: author

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organization: Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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## Keyword

- subject: Anomalous Hall crystal
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- subject: Twisted bilayer–trilayer graphene
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- subject: Moiré potential
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- description: 'This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after
    peer review (when applicable) and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of
    use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements,
    or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08239-6'
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## Embargo

start_date: 2025-01-22
end_date: 2026-07-22

## Journal

- title: Nature
  issn: '00280836'
  volume: '637'
  issue: '8048'
  start_page: 1084
  end_page: 1089

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