Publication Date:
2014-07-06
Description:
Symmetry-breaking in a quantum system often leads to complex emergent behavior. In bilayer graphene (BLG), an electric field applied perpendicular to the basal plane breaks the inversion symmetry of the lattice, opening a band gap at the charge neutrality point. In a quantizing magnetic field, electron interactions can cause spontaneous symmetry-breaking within the spin and valley degrees of freedom, resulting in quantum Hall effect (QHE) states with complex order. Here, we report fractional QHE states in BLG that show phase transitions that can be tuned by a transverse electric field. This result provides a model platform with which to study the role of symmetry-breaking in emergent states with topological order.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Maher, Patrick -- Wang, Lei -- Gao, Yuanda -- Forsythe, Carlos -- Taniguchi, Takashi -- Watanabe, Kenji -- Abanin, Dmitry -- Papic, Zlatko -- Cadden-Zimansky, Paul -- Hone, James -- Kim, Philip -- Dean, Cory R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2014 Jul 4;345(6192):61-4. doi: 10.1126/science.1252875.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA. ; Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA. ; Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA. ; National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Japan. ; Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, ON N2L 2Y5, Canada. Institute for Quantum Computing, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada. ; Physics Program, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504, USA. ; Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA. pk2015@columbia.edu cdean@ccny.cuny.edu. ; Department of Physics, The City College of New York, New York, NY 10031, USA. pk2015@columbia.edu cdean@ccny.cuny.edu.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24994646" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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