Hofstadter's butterfly and the fractal quantum Hall effect in moiré superlattices

Nature

Volumn 497, Issue 7451, 2013, Pages 598-602

  Dean, C R ^a   Wang, L ^b   Maher, P ^b   Forsythe, C ^b   Ghahari, F ^b   Gao, Y ^b   Katoch, J ^c   Ishigami, M ^c   Moon, P ^d   Koshino, M ^d   Taniguchi, T ^e   Watanabe, K ^e   Shepard, K L ^b   Hone, J ^b   Kim, P ^b  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON NITRIDE NANOTUBE; GRAPHENE;

CARBON; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON; MAGNETIC FIELD; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TOPOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYCLOTRON; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; LOW TEMPERATURE; MAGNETIC FIELD; NONHUMAN; PERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 84878398531     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12186     Document Type: Article

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