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Guorui Chen1,2, Aaron L Sharpe3,4,5, Eli J Fox3,6
1Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.
Abstract:
The flat bands resulting from moiré superlattices exhibit fascinating correlated electron phenomena such as correlated insulators, ( Nature 2018, 556 (7699), 80-84), ( Nature Physics 2019, 15 (3), 237) superconductivity, ( Nature 2018, 556 (7699), 43-50), ( Nature 2019, 572 (7768), 215-219) and orbital magnetism. ( Science 2019, 365 (6453), 605-608), ( Nature 2020, 579 (7797), 56-61), ( Science 2020, 367 (6480), 900-903) Such magnetism has been observed only at particular integer multiples of n0, the density corresponding to one electron per moiré superlattice unit cell. Here, we report the experimental observation of ferromagnetism at noninteger filling (NIF) of a flat Chern band in a ABC-TLG/hBN moiré superlattice. This state exhibits prominent ferromagnetic hysteresis behavior with large anomalous Hall resistivity in a broad region of densities centered in the valence miniband at n = -2.3n0. We observe that, not only the magnitude of the anomalous Hall signal, but also the sign of the hysteretic ferromagnetic response can be modulated by tuning the carrier density and displacement field. Rotating the sample in a fixed magnetic field demonstrates that the ferromagnetism is highly anisotropic and likely purely orbital in character.
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