AVS 62nd International Symposium & Exhibition
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Paper 2D+EM+MG+NS+SS+TF-ThA8
Topological Winding Number Change and Broken Inversion Symmetry in a Hofstadter’s Butterfly

Thursday, October 22, 2015, 4:40 pm, Room 212C

Session: Heterostructures of 2D Materials
Presenter: Marc Bockrath, UC Riverside
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Recently several research groups have demonstrated accurate placement of graphene on hexagonal BN (hBN) with crystallographic alignment. Due to the resulting superlattice formed in the graphene/hBN heterostructures, an energy gap, secondary Dirac Points, and Hofstadter quantization in a magnetic field have been observed. Using aligned layer transfer we are able to produce graphene/hBN heterostructures with ~1 degree alignment accuracy, and measure the transport properties of the resulting systems. We observe an additional π Berry’s phase shift in the magneto-oscillations when tuning the Fermi level past the secondary Dirac points, originating from a change in topological winding number from odd to even when the Fermi-surface electron orbit begins to enclose the secondary Dirac points. At large hole doping inversion symmetry breaking generates a distinct hexagonal pattern in the longitudinal resistivity versus magnetic field and charge density. This results from a systematic pattern of replica Dirac points and gaps, reflecting the fractal spectrum of the Hofstadter butterfly.