Proximity to WSe2 engineers the magnetic energy landscape in tMBG via induced SOC, enabling nonvolatile gate switching of QAH states and gate tuning between |C|=2, |C|=1, and metallic regimes without magnetic reset.
Family of High-Chern-Number Orbital Magnets in Twisted Rhombohedral Graphene
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Realizing Chern insulators with Chern numbers greater than one 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. Here, we discover a family of 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 moir\'e unit cell when they are polarized away from the moir\'e interface. Across the (1+n) systems, we observe a clear topological hierarchy C = n, revealed by the St\v{r}eda trajectories and the quantized Hall resistance. Our experimental observations are 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. Together, 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 moir\'e systems.
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New symmetry-broken Chern insulators with C = +3, ±2, ±1 at v = -2.5 or -2.6, plus the known C = -4 at v = -1, were observed in rhombohedral tetralayer graphene/hBN moiré superlattices and shown to be tunable via twist angle, electric field, and magnetic field.
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Proximity to WSe2 engineers the magnetic energy landscape in tMBG via induced SOC, enabling nonvolatile gate switching of QAH states and gate tuning between |C|=2, |C|=1, and metallic regimes without magnetic reset.
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Tunable high-Chern-number Chern insulators in rhombohedral tetralayer graphene/hBN moir\'e superlattices
New symmetry-broken Chern insulators with C = +3, ±2, ±1 at v = -2.5 or -2.6, plus the known C = -4 at v = -1, were observed in rhombohedral tetralayer graphene/hBN moiré superlattices and shown to be tunable via twist angle, electric field, and magnetic field.