Coexisting massive and massless Dirac fermions in moiré-reconstructed bilayer graphene
We report the emergence of massless Dirac fermions in moiré-reconstructed bands of bilayer graphene (BLG) aligned with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). Magnetotransport measurements reveal that while the primary BLG band retains a parabolic dispersion with a Berry phase of $2π$, the moiré-induced secondary bands at $n/n_0 = \pm 4$ host chiral massless quasiparticles with a Berry phase $π$ and a Fermi velocity $v_m \approx 3.6 \times 10^5 \mathrm{m s^{-1}}$. This transition from massive to massless carriers arises from topological band reconstruction driven by the hBN moiré potential. Our results demonstrate that moiré engineering in BLG/hBN offers a powerful route to tune band topology and realize coexisting Dirac and massive fermions within a single crystalline platform.
Authors
- Takashi Taniguchi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1467-3105)
- Kenji Watanabe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3701-8119)
- Mohit Kumar Jat
- Aveek Bid (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2378-7980)
Institutions
- National Institute for Materials Science (JP)
- Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (IN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical review. B./Physical review. B
- Published
- 2026-01-16
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/v45r-zcvc
- Primary Topic
- Graphene research and applications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00