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Chin. Phys. B, 2025, Vol. 34(3): 037201    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/adb411
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Anomalous Hall effect in Bernal tetralayer graphene enhanced by spin-orbit interaction

Zhuangzhuang Qu(曲壮壮)1, Zhihao Chen(陈志豪)2,3, Xiangyan Han(韩香岩)1, Zhiyu Wang(王知雨)1, Zhuoxian Li(李卓贤)1, Qianling Liu(刘倩伶)1, Wenjun Zhao(赵文俊)1, Kenji Watanabe4, Takashi Taniguchi4, Zhi-Gang Cheng(程智刚)2,3,†, Zizhao Gan(甘子钊)1, and Jianming Lu(路建明)1,‡
1 State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;
2 Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;
3 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;
4 National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, 305-0044, Japan
Abstract  Spin-orbit interaction (SOI) can be introduced by the proximity effect to modulate the electronic properties of graphene-based heterostructures. In this work, we stack trilayer WSe2 on Bernal tetralayer graphene to investigate the influence of SOI on the anomalous Hall effect (AHE). In this structurally asymmetric device, by comparing the magnitude of AHE at positive and negative displacement fields, we find that AHE is strongly enhanced by bringing electrons in proximity to the WSe2 layer. Meanwhile, the enhanced AHE signal persists up to 80 K, providing important routes for topological device applications at high temperatures.
Keywords:  anomalous Hall effect      proximity effect      Bernal tetralayer graphene      spin-orbit interaction  
Received:  22 January 2025      Revised:  05 February 2025      Accepted manuscript online:  08 February 2025
PACS:  72.80.Vp (Electronic transport in graphene)  
  73.40.-c (Electronic transport in interface structures)  
Fund: Project supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant Nos. 2021YFA1400100 and 2024YFA1409700) and the National Natural Science Foudation of China (Grant Nos. 12374168 and T2325026).
Corresponding Authors:  Zhi-Gang Cheng, Jianming Lu     E-mail:  zgcheng@iphy.ac.cn;jmlu@pku.edu.cn

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Zhuangzhuang Qu(曲壮壮), Zhihao Chen(陈志豪), Xiangyan Han(韩香岩), Zhiyu Wang(王知雨), Zhuoxian Li(李卓贤), Qianling Liu(刘倩伶), Wenjun Zhao(赵文俊), Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Zhi-Gang Cheng(程智刚), Zizhao Gan(甘子钊), and Jianming Lu(路建明) Anomalous Hall effect in Bernal tetralayer graphene enhanced by spin-orbit interaction 2025 Chin. Phys. B 34 037201

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