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hBN alignment orientation controls moir\'e strength in rhombohedral graphene
Matan Uzan, Weifeng Zhi, Matan Bocarsly, Junkai Dong, Surajit Dutta, Nadav Auerbach, Niladri Sekhar Kander, Mikhail Labendik, Yuri Myasoedov, Martin E. Huber, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Daniel E. Parker, Eli Zeldov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20647

hBN alignment orientation controls moiré strength in rhombohedral graphene
Rhombohedral multilayer graphene hosts a rich landscape of correlated symmetry-broken phases, driven by strong interactions from its flat band edges. Aligning to hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) creates a moiré pattern, leading to recent observations of exotic ground states such as integer and fractional quantum anomalous Hall effects. Here, we show that the moiré effects and resulting correlated phase diagrams are critically influenced by a previously underestimated structural choice: the hBN a…