Article Displacement Field-Controlled Fractional Chern Insulators and Charge Density Waves in a Graphene/hBN Moiré Superlattice

Samuel H. Aronson ; Tonghang Han ; Zhengguang Lu ; Yuxuan Yao ; Jackson P. Butler ; Kenji Watanabe SAMURAI ORCID (National Institute for Materials Science) ; Takashi Taniguchi SAMURAI ORCID (National Institute for Materials Science) ; Long Ju ; Raymond C. Ashoori

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Samuel H. Aronson, Tonghang Han, Zhengguang Lu, Yuxuan Yao, Jackson P. Butler, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Long Ju, Raymond C. Ashoori. Displacement Field-Controlled Fractional Chern Insulators and Charge Density Waves in a Graphene/hBN Moiré Superlattice. Physical Review X. 2025, 15 (3), 031026. https://doi.org/10.1103/75gl-jzl6

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Rhombohedral stacked graphene (RSG) contains two key ingredients for the realization of correlated topological phases of matter: flat electronic bands and concentrated Berry curvature. The fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect was recently observed in an RSG-hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) moiré heterostructure when the conduction electrons were pushed away from the moiré interface by an applied electric displacement field. The question then arises about whether such topological states can also develop in RSG-hBN in a strong moiré potential. Here, we report the observation of low-field integer and fractional Chern insulator states in the moiré-proximal limit at filling factors ν = 1, 2/3, and 1/3 in addition to numerous trivial and topological charge density waves. We map out a correlated phase diagram that is highly sensitive to both displacement and magnetic fields, establishing the moiré-proximal regime as a tunable platform for studying the interplay between band topology and strong lattice effects.

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Keyword: fractional Chern insulators, graphene/hBN moiré
, displacement field control


Date published: 2025-07-24

Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)

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  • Physical Review X (ISSN: 21603308) vol. 15 issue. 3 031026

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  • National Science Foundation DMR-1231319
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program 1122374
  • U.S. Department of Energy DE-SC0025325
  • Office of Science
  • Basic Energy Sciences
  • Materials Sciences and Engineering Division

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First published URL: https://doi.org/10.1103/75gl-jzl6

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