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Xumin Chang1, Zui Tao2, Bowen Shen2
1Shanghai Jiao Tong University, State Key Laboratory of Micro-nano Engineering Science, Key Laboratory of Artificial Structures and Quantum Control (Ministry of Education), School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai 200240, China.
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Consecutive topological phase transitions (TPTs) between strongly correlated electronic phases that differ simultaneously in symmetry breaking and topological order are of fundamental interest in condensed matter physics, yet, rarely realized experimentally. We report two consecutive electric-field-driven TPTs at half filling (ν=1) in angle-aligned MoTe_{2}/WSe_{2} moiré heterobilayers. With increasing out-of-plane displacement field, a geometrically frustrated Mott insulator evolves into a ferromagnetic quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) Mott insulator, i.e., a spin-polarized topological Mott insulator without an observable charge-gap closure, and subsequently into an antiferromagnetic, valley-coherent Mott insulator (VC-AFM) accompanied by a continuous charge-gap collapse and the emergence of a critical metallic state. Layer-resolved magnetic circular dichroism (MCD), magneto-transport, and compressibility measurements jointly determine the phase diagram. The high-field evolution of the antiferromagnetic state reveals a metamagnetic-like transition at a critical field B^{*}, above which a Chern insulating transport response reappears. Our results establish the MoTe_{2}/WSe_{2} moiré platform as a tunable realization of an extended Kane-Mele-Hubbard model hosting sequential correlation-topology intertwined transitions.
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