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We explore the flatness of conduction and valence bands of interlayer excitons in MoS$_2$/WSe$_2$ van der Waals heterobilayers, tuned by interlayer twist angle, pressure, and external electric field. We employ an efficient continuum model…

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Twisted van der Waals heterostructures and the corresponding superlattices, moire superlattices, are remarkable new material platforms, in which electron interactions and excited-state properties can be engineered. Particularly, the band…

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We demonstrate that the concept of moir\'e flat bands can be generalized to achieve electronic band engineering in all three spatial dimensions. For many two dimensional van der Waals materials, twisting two adjacent layers with respect to…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-05 Lede Xian , Ammon Fischer , Martin Claassen , Jin Zhang , Angel Rubio , Dante M. Kennes

Twisted multilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are a promising platform for realizing topological exciton phases. Here we propose that twisted TMD heterotrilayers WX$_2$/MX$_2$/WX$_2$ with layer symmetry represents a realistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Ze-Hong Guo , Tao Yan , Jin-Zhu Zhao , Yuan-Jun Jin , Qizhong Zhu

Ultraflat bands in twisted bilayers of two-dimensional materials have potential to host strong correlations, including the Mott-insulating phase at half-filling of the band. Using first principles density functional theory calculations, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-01-02 Mit H. Naik , Manish Jain

Van der Waals heterostructures of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides provide a unique platform to engineer optoelectronic devices tuning their optical properties via stacking, twisting, or straining. Using ab initio Many-Body…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 R. Reho , A. R. Botello-Méndez , D. Sangalli , M. J. Verstraete , Zeila Zanolli

We propose to engineer topological exciton structures in layered transition metal dichalcogenides through hybridizing different Rydberg states, which can be induced by a periodic electrostatic potential remotely imprinted from charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Na Zhang , Wang Yao , Hongyi Yu

Moir\'e heterostructures provide a powerful framework for tailoring electronic band structures via controlled long-range periodic superlattice potentials. Beyond widely studied moir\'e-tailored flat bands, folded band structures can host…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-29 R. Ganser , M. P. T. Masilamani , B. Geldiyev , M. M. Hirschmann , A. Consiglio , J. Schusser , D. Di Sante , M. Ünzelmann , F. Reinert

Twisted transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) present an intriguing platform for exploring excitons and their transport properties. By introducing a twist angle, a moir\'e superlattice forms, providing a spatially dependent exciton energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Willy Knorr , Samuel Brem , Giuseppe Meneghini , Ermin Malic

A family of semiconductors called as Chern band insulator are shown to host exciton bands with non-zero topological Chern integers and chiral exciton edge modes. Using a prototypical two-band Chern insulator model, we calculate a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Ke Chen , Ryuichi Shindou

Moir\'e effects in twisted or lattice-incommensurate vertical assemblies of two-dimensional crystals give rise to a new class of quantum materials with rich transport and optical phenomena, including correlated electron physics in flat…

We present a theory of optical absorption by interlayer excitons in a heterobilayer formed from transition metal dichalcogenides. The theory accounts for the presence of small relative rotations that produce a momentum shift between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Fengcheng Wu , Timothy Lovorn , A. H. MacDonald

Layered two-dimensional materials exhibit rich transport and optical phenomena in twisted or lattice-incommensurate heterostructures with spatial variations of interlayer hybridization arising from moir\'e interference effects. Here, we…

Transition-metal dichalcogenide heterostructures exhibit moir\'e patterns that spatially modulate the electronic structure across the material's plane. For certain material pairs, this modulation acts as a potential landscape with deep,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-12 David A. Ruiz-Tijerina , Isaac Soltero , Francisco Mireles

The properties of van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures are drastically altered by a tunable moir\'e superlattice arising from periodic variations of atomic alignment between the layers. Exciton diffusion represents an important channel of…

The search for artificial topological superconductivity has been limited by the stringent conditions required for its emergence. As exemplified by the recent discoveries of various correlated electronic states in twisted van der Waals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-14 Shawulienu Kezilebieke , Viliam Vaňo , Md N. Huda , Markus Aapro , Somesh Chandra Ganguli , Peter Liljeroth , Jose L. Lado

Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) feature exceptional optical properties that are dominated by excitons, tightly bound electron-hole pairs. Forming van der Waals heterostructures by deterministically stacking individual…

Heterostructures of van der Waals bonded layered materials offer unique means to tailor dielectric screening with atomic-layer precision, opening a fertile field of fundamental research. The optical analyses used so far have relied on…

In two-dimensional electronic lattices, changes in the topology of the Fermi surface (Lifshitz transitions) lead to Van Hove singularities characterized by a divergence in the electronic density of states. Van Hove singularities can enhance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Lakshmi Pullasseri , Luiz H. Santos

Moir\'e superlattices of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterostructures give rise to rich excitonic phenomena associated with the interlayer twist angle and induced changes in the involved quantum states. Theoretical calculations of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-13 Sudipta Kundu , Tomer Amit , H. R. Krishnamurthy , Manish Jain , Sivan Refaely-Abramson