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We present a practical method to detect, diagnose and engineer higher order Van Hove singularities in multiband systems, with no restrictions on the number of bands and hopping terms. The method allows us to directly compute the Taylor…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-15 Anirudh Chandrasekaran , Joseph J. Betouras

Twisted bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors have enabled the discovery of superconductivity, ferromagnetism, correlated insulators and a series of new topological phases of matter. However, the connection between…

We develop a low-energy continuum model to describe the moir\'{e} physics of heterostructures, which is a generalization of the celebrated Bistritzer-MacDonald (BM) method [R. Bistritzer and A. H. MacDonald, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 David T. S. Perkins , Joseph J. Betouras

We report the observation of spin-polarized superconductivity in Bernal bilayer graphene when doped to a saddle-point van Hove singularity generated by large applied perpendicular electric field. We observe a cascade of electrostatic…

Electron doping is an excellent tuning knob to explore different phases of matter in two-dimensional (2D) materials. For example, tuning the Fermi level at a van Hove singularity in twisted bilayer graphene can enhance electron-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Aitor Garcia-Ruiz , Ming-Hao Liu

Motivated by the growing interest in band structures featuring higher-order Van Hove singularities (HOVHS), we investigate a spinless fermion kagome system characterized by nearest-neighbor (NN) and next-nearest-neighbor (NNN) hopping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-11 Edrick Wang , Lakshmi Pullasseri , Luiz H. Santos

Twisted graphene multilayers have demonstrated to yield a versatile playground to engineer controllable electronic states. Here, by combining first-principles calculations and low-energy models, we demonstrate that twisted graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-04 Alejandro Lopez-Bezanilla , J. L. Lado

The interplay between electronic topology and superconductivity is the subject of great current interest in condensed matter physics. For example, superconductivity induced on the surface of topological insulators is predicted to be triplet…

Divergent density of states (DOS) can induce extraordinary phenomena such as significant enhancement of superconductivity and unexpected phase transitions. Moreover, van Hove singularities (VHSs) are known to lead to divergent DOS in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-20 Donghan Kim , Younsik Kim , Byungmin Sohn , Minsoo Kim , Bongju Kim , Tae Won Noh , Changyoung Kim

Van-Hove (VH) singularities in the single-particle band spectrum are important for interaction-driven quantum phases. Whereas VH points are usually spin-degenerate, in newly proposed altermagnets VH singularities can become spin-dependent,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-16 Peng Rao , Johannes Knolle , Laura Classen

The emergence of flat bands in twisted bilayer graphene at the magic angle can be understood in terms of a vanishing Fermi velocity of the Dirac cone. This is associated with van Hove singularities approaching the Fermi energy and becoming…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-05 A. S. Shankar , D. O. Oriekhov , Andrew K. Mitchell , L. Fritz

The recent advent of artificial structures has triggered the emergence of fascinating phenomena that could not exist in natural compounds. A prime example is twisted multilayers, i.e., moir\'e superlattices represented by magic-angle…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-11-13 Shun Asano , Youichi Yanase

We have performed first-principles calculations using density functional theory on a kagome lattice model with a chiral spin state, as a representative example demonstrating significant longitudinal and transverse thermoelectric properties.…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-14 Kaiki Shibata , Naoya Yamaguchi , Hikaru Sawahata , Fumiyuki Ishii

The recent discovery of unconventional superconductivity has pointed to twisted WSe$_2$ bilayer as a versatile platform for studying the correlated and topological phases of matter. Here we analyze the effect of the displacement field and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-27 Michał Zegrodnik , Waseem Akbar , Andrzej Biborski , Louk Rademaker

While advances in electronic band theory have brought to light new topological systems, understanding the interplay of band topology and electronic interactions remains a frontier question. In this work, we predict new interacting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-26 Pedro Castro , Daniel Shaffer , Yi-Ming Wu , Luiz H. Santos

We investigate the electronic structure of the new family of kagome metals AV$_{3}$Sb$_{5}$ (A = K, Rb, Cs) using first-principles calculations. We analyze systematically the evolution of the van Hove singularities (vHss) across the entire…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-03 Harrison LaBollita , Antia S. Botana

Applying in-plane uniaxial pressure to strongly correlated low-dimensional systems has been shown to tune the electronic structure dramatically. For example, the unconventional superconductor Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ can be tuned through a single Van…

We introduce twisted trilayer graphene (tTLG) with two independent twist angles as an ideal system for the precise tuning of the electronic interlayer coupling to maximize the effect of correlated behaviors. As established by experiment and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-12 Ziyan Zhu , Stephen Carr , Daniel Massatt , Mitchell Luskin , Efthimios Kaxiras

Tantalum diselenide (TaSe2) is an exciting material that hosts charge density wave order (CDW) and superconductivity. Thus, providing a playing field for examining the interactions of fundamental electronic quantum states in materials.…

Using the continuum model for low energy non-interacting electronic structure of moir\'e van der Waals heterostructures developed by Bistritzer and MacDonald [1], we study the competition between spin, charge, and superconducting order in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-16 Evan Laksono , Jia Ning Leaw , Alexander Reaves , Manraaj Singh , Xinyun Wang , Shaffique Adam , Xingyu Gu