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Twisted heterostructures of van der Waals materials have received much attention for their many remarkable properties. Here, we present a comprehensive theory of the long-range ordered magnetic phases of twisted bilayer $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-20 Muhammad Akram , Jesse Kapeghian , Jyotirish Das , Roser Valenti , Antia S. Botana , Onur Erten

Moir\'e superlattices in van der Waals structures can be used to control the electronic properties of the material and lead to emergent correlated and topological phenomena. Its first demonstration in van der Waals magnets exhibited…

Moir\'e patterns are common in Van der Waals heterostructures and can be used to apply periodic potentials to elementary excitations. We show that the optical absorption spectrum of transition metal dichalcogenide bilayers is profoundly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-06 Fengcheng Wu , Timothy Lovorn , A. H. MacDonald

This work presents a platform that enables surface acoustic wave (SAW) modulation of both intralayer and interlayer excitons in MoS2/WSe2 heterostructures. Harnessing the coupled piezoelectric and strain fields of SAWs, this integrated…

Vertical van der Waals heterostructures of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides realize moir\'e systems with rich correlated electron phases and moir\'e exciton phenomena. For material combinations with small lattice mismatch and…

The supermoir\'e lattice, arising from the interference of multiple moir\'e patterns, dramatically reshapes the electronic band structure by introducing new minibands and modifying band dispersion. Concurrently, strong electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-11 Zekang Zhou , Cheng Shen , Kryštof Kolář , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Cyprian Lewandowski , Mitali Banerjee

Moir\'e superlattice designed in stacked van der Waals material provides a dynamic platform for hosting exotic and emergent condensed matter phenomena. However, the relevance of strong correlation effects and the large size of moir\'e unit…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Xiang Li , Yubing Qian , Weiluo Ren , Yang Xu , Ji Chen

We propose an all-optical Moir\'e-like exciton confinement by means of spatially periodic optical cavities. Such periodic photonic structures can control the material properties by coupling the matter excitations to the confined photons and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-05 Francesco Troisi , Hannes Hübener , Angel Rubio , Simone Latini

Controlling exciton recombination in atomically thin semiconductors is central to their optoelectronic functionality, as the competition between radiative and non-radiative decay channels governs emission efficiency. Existing approaches,…

Recently, moir\'{e} superlattices have attracted considerable attentions because they are found to exhibit intriguing electronic phenomena of tunable Mott insulators and unconventional superconductivity. These phenomena are highly related…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 Henan Fang , Mingwen Xiao

Van der Waals assembly enables exquisite design of electronic states in two-dimensional (2D) materials, often by superimposing a long-wavelength periodic potential on a crystal lattice using moir\'e superlattices. Here we show that…

The formation of flat electronic bands from long-wavelength superperiodic moir\'e potentials in van der Waals heterostructures underpins the creation and control of a host of highly-tuneable correlated and topological phases. The underlying…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-11 B. K. Saika , S. Buchberger , S. Mo , A. Rajan , D. Halliday , Y. -C. Yao , L. C. Rhodes , B. Sarpi , T. Balasubramanian , C. Polley , P. Wahl , P. D. C. King

Moir\'e superlattices (MSL) formed in angle-aligned bilayers of van der Waals materials have become a promising platform to realize novel two-dimensional electronic states. Angle-aligned trilayer structures can form two sets of MSLs which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-18 Xiong Huang , Lingxiu Chen , Shujie Tang , Chengxin Jiang , Chen Chen , Huishan Wang , Zhi-Xun Shen , Haomin Wang , Yong-Tao Cui

Moir\'e engineering in layered crystals has recently gained considerable attention due to the discovery of various structural and physical phenomena, including interfacial reconstruction, superconductivity, magnetism, and distinctive…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-14 Jieun Yeon , Kihyun Lee , Myeongjin Jang , Tae Keun Yun , Jongho Park , Changyoung Kim , Kwanpyo Kim

The interface of complex oxide heterostructures sets the stage for various electronic and magnetic phenomena. Many of these collective effects originate from the precise structural arrangement at the interface that in turn governs local…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Max Burian , Bill Francesco Pedrini , Nazaret Ortiz Hernandez , Hiroki Ueda , C. A. F. Vaz , Milan Radovic , Urs Staub

A mismatch of atomic registries between single-layer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) in a two dimensional van der Waals heterostructure produces a moir\'e superlattice with a periodic potential, which can be fine-tuned by…

Moir\'e superlattices based on two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have emerged as a highly versatile and fruitful platform for exploring correlated topological electronic phases. One of the most remarkable examples is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-02 Ming Xie , Mohammad Hafezi , Sankar Das Sarma

We develop a general theory for how an exciton in an atomically thin transition metal dichacogenide (TMD) monolayer couples to spin and charge correlations in an adjacent moire lattice created by a TMD bi-layer. Virtual tunneling of charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Aleksi Julku , Shanshan Ding , Georg M. Bruun

We study the energies and optical spectra of excitons in twisted bilayers of anisotropic van der Waals semiconductors exhibiting moir\'e patterns, taking phosphorene as a case study. Following the electronic Hamiltonian introduced by us in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Isaac Soltero , David A. Ruiz-Tijerina

Collective quantum phenomena, such as the excitation of composite fermions1, spin waves2, and exciton condensation3,4, can emerge in strongly correlated systems like the fractional quantum Hall states5, spin liquids6, or excitonic…