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TY - JOUR
T1 - High-temperature quantum oscillations caused by recurring Bloch states in graphene superlattices
AU - Krishna Kumar, Roshan
AU - Chen, X
AU - Auton, G. H.
AU - Mishchenko, Artem
AU - Bandurin, D. A.
AU - Morozov, Sergey V.
AU - Cao, Y
AU - Khestanova, E.
AU - Ben Shalom, Moshe
AU - Kretinin, A. V.
AU - Novoselov, K. S.
AU - Eaves, L.
AU - Grigorieva, I. V.
AU - Ponomarenko, Leonid Alexandrovich
AU - Falko, Vladimir
AU - Geim, A. K.
N1 - Copyright © 2017 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works http://www.sciencemag.org/about/science-licenses-journal-article-reuse This is an article distributed under the terms of the Science Journals Default License.
PY - 2017/7/14
Y1 - 2017/7/14
N2 - Cyclotron motion of charge carriers in metals and semiconductors leads to Landau quantization and magneto-oscillatory behavior in their properties. Cryogenic temperatures are usually required to observe these oscillations. We show that graphene superlattices support a different type of quantum oscillation that does not rely on Landau quantization. The oscillations are extremely robust and persist well above room temperature in magnetic fields of only a few tesla. We attribute this phenomenon to repetitive changes in the electronic structure of superlattices such that charge carriers experience effectively no magnetic field at simple fractions of the flux quantum per superlattice unit cell. Our work hints at unexplored physics in Hofstadter butterfly systems at high temperatures.
AB - Cyclotron motion of charge carriers in metals and semiconductors leads to Landau quantization and magneto-oscillatory behavior in their properties. Cryogenic temperatures are usually required to observe these oscillations. We show that graphene superlattices support a different type of quantum oscillation that does not rely on Landau quantization. The oscillations are extremely robust and persist well above room temperature in magnetic fields of only a few tesla. We attribute this phenomenon to repetitive changes in the electronic structure of superlattices such that charge carriers experience effectively no magnetic field at simple fractions of the flux quantum per superlattice unit cell. Our work hints at unexplored physics in Hofstadter butterfly systems at high temperatures.
U2 - 10.1126/science.aal3357
DO - 10.1126/science.aal3357
M3 - Journal article
VL - 357
SP - 181
EP - 184
JO - Science
JF - Science
SN - 0036-8075
IS - 6347
ER -