Observation of Kekulé vortices around hydrogen adatoms in graphene

Abstract Fractional charges are one of the wonders of the fractional quantum Hall effect. Such objects are also anticipated in two-dimensional hexagonal lattices under time reversal symmetry—emerging as bound states of a rotating bond texture called a Kekulé vortex. However, the physical mechanisms...

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Main Authors: Yifei Guan, Clement Dutreix, Héctor González-Herrero, Miguel M. Ugeda, Ivan Brihuega, Mikhail I. Katsnelson, Oleg V. Yazyev, Vincent T. Renard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47267-8