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High-Chern-number orbital magnetism in twisted rhombohedral graphene
Xirui Wang1, L Antonio Benítez2, Skandaprasad Rao3
1Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. xrwang@mit.edu.
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Realizing Chern insulators with Chern numbers >1 remains a major goal in quantum materials research. Such platforms promise multichannel dissipationless chiral transport and access to correlated phases beyond the conventional C = 1 paradigm. We discover high-Chern-number orbital magnets in twisted monolayer-multilayer rhombohedral graphene, denoted (1 + n) with n = 3, 4 and 5. Magnetotransport measurements show pronounced anomalous Hall effects at one and three electrons per moiré unit cell when they are polarized away from the moiré interface. Across these systems, we observe a clear topological hierarchy C = n, revealed by Středa trajectories and quantized Hall resistance, supported by self-consistent mean-field calculations. Moreover, we realize both electrical and magnetic switching of the high-Chern-number states by flipping the valley polarization. These results establish a tunable hierarchy of orbital Chern magnets in twisted rhombohedral graphene, offering systematic control of Chern number and topology through layer engineering in pristine graphene moiré systems.
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