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Skyrmionic transport and first-order phase transitions in a twisted bilayer graphene quantum Hall ferromagnet

Vineet Pandey1, Prasenjit Ghosh1, Riju Pal2, Sourav Paul1, Abhijith M B1, Kenji Watanabe3, Takashi Taniguchi4, Atindra Nath Pal2, and Vidya Kochat1,*

  • *Contact author: vidya@matsc.iitkgp.ac.in

Phys. Rev. B 113, L161110 – Published 13 April, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/xm64-4qry

Abstract

Large-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) realizes a multicomponent quantum Hall (QH) platform of spin, valley, and layer pseudospins with strong Coulomb interaction-driven symmetry broken phases. Here, we investigate the low energy Landau-level spectrum of layer-decoupled TBLG and identify skyrmion-textured charged excitations and a field-induced insulating transition to an intervalley coherent state at zero-filling factor. Symmetric potential difference perpendicular to TBLG demonstrated layer coherent population of ground states with uniform energy barriers, while the charge imbalance in the layers at finite displacement field led to multidomain nucleation and a pronounced hysteresis in the exchange-dominated transport regime suggesting first order phase transitions between different QH ferromagnetic ground states.

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