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Quantum Hall drag of exciton condensate in graphene

Cornell Affiliated Author(s)

Author

Xiaomeng Liu
Kenji Watanabe
Takashi Taniguchi
Bertrand Halperin
Philip Kim

Abstract

An exciton condensate is a Bose–Einstein condensate of electron and hole pairs bound by the Coulomb interaction1,2. In an electronic double layer (EDL) subject to strong magnetic fields, filled Landau states in one layer bind with empty states of the other layer to form an exciton condensate3,4,5,6,7,8,9. Here we report exciton condensation in a bilayer graphene EDL separated by hexagonal boron nitride. Driving current in one graphene layer generates a near-quantized Hall voltage in the other layer, resulting in coherent exciton transport4,6. Owing to the strong Coulomb coupling across the atomically thin dielectric, quantum Hall drag in graphene appears at a temperature ten times higher than previously observed in a GaAs EDL. The wide-range tunability of densities and displacement fields enables exploration of a rich phase diagram of Bose–Einstein condensates across Landau levels with different filling factors and internal quantum degrees of freedom. The observed robust exciton condensation opens up opportunities to investigate various many-body exciton phases.

Date Published

Journal

Nature Physics

Volume

13

Issue

8

Number of Pages

746-750

ISSN Number

1745-2473, 1745-2481

URL

https://www.nature.com/articles/nphys4116

DOI

10.1038/nphys4116

Group (Lab)

Xiaomeng Liu Group

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