Quantum anomalous Hall effect from intertwined moiré bands
Name
2107.01796.pdf
Description
Submitted version
Size
3.31 MB
Format
Adobe PDF
Checksum (MD5)
d19b4b2f3f56c5de1fac4111346ea29b
Author(s)
Li, Tingxin
Jiang, Shengwei
Shen, Bowen
Zhang, Yang
Li, Lizhong
Tao, Zui
Devakul, Trithep
Watanabe, Kenji
Taniguchi, Takashi
Fu, Liang
Date Issued
December 23, 2021
Journal
Nature
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Citation
Li, Tingxin, Jiang, Shengwei, Shen, Bowen, Zhang, Yang, Li, Lizhong et al. 2021. "Quantum anomalous Hall effect from intertwined moiré bands." Nature, 600 (7890).
Version
Original manuscript
Abstract
Electron correlation and topology are two central threads of modern condensed matter physics. Semiconductor moiré materials provide a highly tuneable platform for studies of electron correlation1-12. Correlation-driven phenomena, including the Mott insulator2-5, generalized Wigner crystals2,6,9, stripe phases10 and continuous Mott transition11,12, have been demonstrated. However, non-trivial band topology has remained unclear. Here we report the observation of a quantum anomalous Hall effect in AB-stacked MoTe2 /WSe2 moiré heterobilayers. Unlike in the AA-stacked heterobilayers11, an out-of-plane electric field not only controls the bandwidth but also the band topology by intertwining moiré bands centred at different layers. At half band filling, corresponding to one particle per moiré unit cell, we observe quantized Hall resistance, h/e2 (with h and e denoting the Planck's constant and electron charge, respectively), and vanishing longitudinal resistance at zero magnetic field. The electric-field-induced topological phase transition from a Mott insulator to a quantum anomalous Hall insulator precedes an insulator-to-metal transition. Contrary to most known topological phase transitions13, it is not accompanied by a bulk charge gap closure. Our study paves the way for discovery of emergent phenomena arising from the combined influence of strong correlation and topology in semiconductor moiré materials.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Terms of Use
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike
Persistent DSpace Link
DOI of Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04171-1
