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2026-01-03 06:24 UTC · cond-mat.mes-hall · cond-mat.mes-hall, cond-mat.mtrl-sci, cond-mat.str-el

Family of High-Chern-Number Orbital Magnets in Twisted Rhombohedral Graphene

Xirui Wang, L. Antonio Benítez, Vo Tien Phong, Wai In Chu, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Cyprian Lewandowski, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

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 moiré unit cell when they are polarized away from the moiré interface. Across the (1+n) systems, we observe a clear topological hierarchy C = n, revealed by the Středa 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 moiré systems.
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