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Various noncollinear spin textures and magnetic phases have been predicted in twisted two-dimensional CrI$_3$ due to competing ferromagnetic (FM) and antiferromagnetic (AFM) interlayer exchange from moir\'e stacking - with potential…

We demonstrate theoretically that the topology of energy bands and Fermi surface in bilayer graphene undergoes a very sensitive transition when extremely tiny lateral interlayer shift occurs in arbitrary directions. The phenomenon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-17 Young-Woo Son , Seon-Myeong Choi , Yoon Pyo Hong , Sungjong Woo , Seung-Hoon Jhi

The discovery of the quantization of particle transport in adiabatic pumping cycles of periodic structures by Thouless [Phys. Rev. B 27, 6083 (1983)] linked the Chern number, a topological invariant characterizing the quantum Hall effect in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-24 Wladimir A. Benalcazar , Jiho Noh , Mohan Wang , Sheng Huang , Kevin P. Chen , Mikael C. Rechtsman

The physics of phase transitions in low-dimensional systems has long been a subject of significant research interest. Long-range magnetic order in the strict two-dimensional limit, whose discovery circumvented the Mermin-Wagner theorem, has…

Despite the structures and properties of tilt grain boundaries of graphite surface and graphene have been extensively studied, their effect on the structures and electronic spectra of graphene layers has not been fully addressed. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-13 Long-Jing Yin , Jia-Bin Qiao , Wen-Xiao Wang , Zhao-Dong Chu , Kai Fen Zhang , Rui-Fen Dou , Chun Lei Gao , Jin-Feng Jia , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He

Stacking two atomic crystals with a twist between their crystal axes produces moir\'e potentials that modify the electronic properties. Here we show that double moir\'e potentials generated by superposing three atomic crystals create a new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-16 Xinyuan Lai , Guohong Li , Angela M. Coe , Jedediah H. Pixley , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Eva Y. Andrei

Topology and electron interactions are two central themes in modern condensed matter physics. Here we propose graphene based systems where both the band topology and interaction effects can be simply controlled with electric fields. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-20 Ya-Hui Zhang , Dan Mao , Yuan Cao , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , T. Senthil

Topological magnetic textures confined to two-dimensional (2D) non-orientable manifolds exhibit behaviors absent in planar systems. We investigate bimerons on M\"obius surfaces and show that the lack of global orientation alters…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Carlos Saji , Mario A. Castro , Vagson L. Carvalho-Santos , Eduardo Saavedra , Alvaro S. Nunez , Roberto E. Troncoso

The discovery that the band structure of electronic insulators may be topologically non-trivial has unveiled distinct phases of electronic matter with novel properties. Recently, mechanical lattices have been found to have similarly rich…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Noah P. Mitchell , Lisa M. Nash , Daniel Hexner , Ari Turner , William T. M. Irvine

When the atomic layers in a non-centrosymmetric van der Waals structure slide against each other, the interfacial charge transfer results in a reversal of the structures spontaneous polarization. This phenomenon is known as sliding…

Twisted multilayers of two-dimensional (2D) materials are an increasingly important platform for investigating quantum phases of matter, and in particular, strongly correlated electrons. The moir\'e pattern introduced by the relative twist…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-11 Mattia Angeli , Gabriel R. Schleder , Efthimios Kaxiras

We have used scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy to resolve the spatial variation of the density of states of twisted graphene layers on top of a highly oriented pyrolytic graphite substrate. Owing to the twist a moire pattern…

We construct a microscopic model based on superexchange theory for a moir\'e bilayer in chromium trihalides (Cr$X_3$, $X=$Br, I). In particular, we derive analytically the interlayer Heisenberg exchange and the interlayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Kok Wee Song

Moir\'e superlattices - periodic orbital overlaps and lattice-reconstruction between sites of high atomic registry in vertically-stacked 2D layered materials - are quantum-active interfaces where non-trivial quantum phases on novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Zachariah Hennighausen , Swastik Kar

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically non-trivial spin textures of potential interest for future information storage applications, and for such purposes, the control and understanding of single skyrmion creation is required. A scheme is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 Gen Yin , Yufan Li , Lingyao Kong , Roger K. Lake , C. L. Chien , Jiadong Zang

We investigate topological features of electronic structures which produce large anomalous Hall effect in the non-collinear antiferromagnetic metallic states of anti-perovskite manganese nitrides by first-principles calculations. We first…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-25 Vu Thi Ngoc Huyen , Michi-To Suzuki , Kunihiko Yamauchi , Tamio Oguchi

Recent progress in synthetic lattice systems has opened the door to novel explorations of topological matter. In particular, photonic devices and ultracold matter waves offer the unique possibility of studying the rich interplay between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Nader Mostaan , Fabian Grusdt , Nathan Goldman

Leveraging topological properties in the response of electromagnetic systems can greatly enhance their potential. Although the investigation of singularity-based electromagnetics and non-Hermitian electronics has considerably increased in…

We study topology in gapless phases of an interacting spinful model with spin-charge separation. We focus on the gapless boundaries between $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry-breaking phases. We find two topologically non-trivial gapless states that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-27 Polina Matveeva , Dmitri Gutman , Sam T. Carr

In this work we analyze a class of Moir\'e models consisting of an active honeycomb monolayer such as graphene or a hexagonal transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) on top of a substrate, in which the K and K' valleys of the active layer are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Abhijat Sarma