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.
А. Л. Шилов, M. A. Kashchenko, Pierre A. Pantaleón, M. Kravtsov, Andrei Kudriashov, Zhen Zhan, T. Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Sergey Slizovskiy, Konstantin ‘kostya’ Novoselov, Vladimir I. Fal’ko, F. Guinea, D. A. Bandurin
Artur L. Shilov, M. A. Kashchenko, Pierre A. Pantaleón, Yibo Wang, Mikhail Kravtsov, Andrei Kudriashov, Zhen Zhan, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Sergey Slizovskiy, Konstantin ‘kostya’ Novoselov, Vladimir I. Fal’ko, F. Guinea, D. A. Bandurin
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