Hierarchy of Hofstadter states and replica quantum Hall ferromagnetism in graphene superlattices

Nature Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 525-529

  Yu, G L ^a   Gorbachev, R V ^a   Tu, J S ^a   Kretinin, A V ^a   Cao, Y ^a   Jalil, R ^a   Withers, F ^a   Ponomarenko, L A ^a,b   Piot, B A ^c   Potemski, M ^c   Elias, D C ^a,d   Chen, X ^b   Watanabe, K ^e   Taniguchi, T ^e   Grigorieva, I V ^a   Novoselov, K S ^a   Fal'Ko, V I ^b   Geim, A K ^a   Mishchenko, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c GRENOBLE HIGH MAGNETIC FIELD LABORATORY   (France)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON-ELECTRON INTERACTIONS; FERROMAGNETISM; FRACTALS; GRAPHENE; III-V SEMICONDUCTORS; MAGNETIC FIELDS;

CAPACITANCE SPECTROSCOPY; DENSITY OF STATE; FRACTAL PATTERNS; GRAPHENE SUPERLATTICES; INTERACTION EFFECT; LANDAU LEVELS; SELF-SIMILARITIES; VAN HOVE SINGULARITIES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84903784331     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2979     Document Type: Article

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