Microwave spectroscopic evidence of a moir'e-commensurate electron crystal in monolayer graphene
cond-mat.mes-hall, cond-mat.str-el
Submitted: 2026-10-15
Updated: 2026-10-15
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The gist: We probe the conductivity of the lowest Landau level of a moiré-aligned monolayer graphene device by broadband microwave transmission through a coplanar waveguide (about 50 mK, 15.4--18 T),
Abstract
We probe the conductivity of the lowest Landau level of a moiré-aligned monolayer graphene device by broadband microwave transmission through a coplanar waveguide (about 50 mK, 15.4--18 T), isolating the longitudinal channel through a low-minus-high frequency band difference D(ν). We resolve a series of minima in D(ν) that drift with field along lines of fixed carrier density rather than fixed Landau filling, the hallmark of moiré-commensurate electron crystals. The strongest minimum is present at every field and matches no fractional quantum Hall or integer Hofstadter state. It lies at band filling s=1/3, one electron for every three moiré cells---the generalized Wigner crystal that DaSilva, Jung, and MacDonald predict as the most favorable fixed-density (t=0) commensuration. The weaker minima fall near neighboring commensurate fillings.
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