Interplay between topological valley and quantum Hall edge transport

Fabian R. Geisenhof, Felix Winterer, Anna M. Seiler, Jakob Lenz, Ivar Martin and R. Thomas Weitz ()
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Fabian R. Geisenhof: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Felix Winterer: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Anna M. Seiler: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Jakob Lenz: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Ivar Martin: Argonne National Laboratory
R. Thomas Weitz: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Nature Communications, 2022, vol. 13, issue 1, 1-7

Abstract: Abstract An established way of realising topologically protected states in a two-dimensional electron gas is by applying a perpendicular magnetic field thus creating quantum Hall edge channels. In electrostatically gapped bilayer graphene intriguingly, even in the absence of a magnetic field, topologically protected electronic states can emerge at naturally occurring stacking domain walls. While individually both types of topologically protected states have been investigated, their intriguing interplay remains poorly understood. Here, we focus on the interplay between topological domain wall states and quantum Hall edge transport within the eight-fold degenerate zeroth Landau level of high-quality suspended bilayer graphene. We find that the two-terminal conductance remains approximately constant for low magnetic fields throughout the distinct quantum Hall states since the conduction channels are traded between domain wall and device edges. For high magnetic fields, however, we observe evidence of transport suppression at the domain wall, which can be attributed to the emergence of spectral minigaps. This indicates that stacking domain walls potentially do not correspond to a topological domain wall in the order parameter.

Date: 2022
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