{"id":223523,"date":"2025-10-16T11:17:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/ultrasensitive-sensor-maps-magnetization-textures-in-rhombohedral-graphene"},"modified":"2025-10-16T11:17:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:17:56","slug":"ultrasensitive-sensor-maps-magnetization-textures-in-rhombohedral-graphene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/ultrasensitive-sensor-maps-magnetization-textures-in-rhombohedral-graphene","title":{"rendered":"Ultrasensitive sensor maps magnetization textures in rhombohedral graphene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ultrasensitive-sensor-maps-magnetization-textures-in-rhombohedral-graphene2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Graphene, which is comprised of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice, is a widely used material known for its advantageous electrical and mechanical properties. When graphene is stacked in a so-called rhombohedral (i.e., ABC) pattern, new electronic features are known to emerge, including a tunable band structure and a non-trivial topology.<\/p>\n<p>Due to these emerging properties, electrons in rhombohedral <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/graphene\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">graphene<\/a> can behave as if they are being influenced by \u201chidden\u201d magnetic fields, even if no <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/magnetic+field\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnetic field<\/a> is applied to them. While this interesting effect is well-documented, closely studying how electrons organize themselves in the material, with their spins and valley states pointing in different directions, has so far proved challenging.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Weizmann Institute of Science recently set out to further examine the local magnetization textures in rhombohedral graphene, using a nanoscale superconducting quantum interference device (nano-SQUID). Their paper, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-025-03035-z\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Physics<\/i>, offers new insight into the physical processes governing the correlated states previously observed in the material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graphene, which is comprised of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice, is a widely used material known for its advantageous electrical and mechanical properties. When graphene is stacked in a so-called rhombohedral (i.e., ABC) pattern, new electronic features are known to emerge, including a tunable band structure and a non-trivial [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,4,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}