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Janus-induced atomic reconstruction amplifies twist-angle modulation of interlayer thermal transport in moiré bilayers

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2026-07-25 v1 Materials Science Applied Physics

Abstract

In two-dimensional moir\'e bilayers, atomic reconstruction, the spontaneous structural relaxation toward energy-minimizing stacking registries in the near-commensurate regime, can strongly modify local stacking and interlayer coupling, providing a possibility to significantly control phonon-mediated properties. Here we show that the twist-angle dependence of interlayer thermal conductance can be modified by introducing Janus-induced mirror-symmetry breaking into bilayer MoS2. The intrinsic out-of-plane dipole in MoSSe/MoS2 bilayers leads to frictionless interface, and reduces the lattice deformation energy, thereby promoting atomic-reconstruction into locally distorted aperiodic moir\'e patterns. These features weaken interlayer coupling and suppress phonon transmission across the interface, leading to an anomalously strong twist-angle dependence of thermal conductance, with a pronounced minimum at small twist angles and a reduction rate nearly one order of magnitude larger than that of twisted bilayer MoS2. Our results demonstrate that interlayer thermal transport is modified by atomic reconstruction, highlighting Janus-induced mirror-symmetry breaking as an effective way to promoting phonon engineering in two-dimensional moir\'e structures.

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@article{arxiv.2607.23103,
  title  = {Janus-induced atomic reconstruction amplifies twist-angle modulation of interlayer thermal transport in moiré bilayers},
  author = {Bin Xu and Rulei Guo and Jie Sun and Hiroo Suzuki and Takuma Yoshida and Ichiro Nakaya and Koki Sawasaki and Yasuhiko Hayashi and Shohei Chiashi and Tomoki Machida and Junichiro Shiomi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.23103},
  year   = {2026}
}