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Skyrmions are topological defects belonging to nontrivial homotopy classes in particle theory. Their remarkably stable topology has recently been observed in electromagnetic waves. For the evanescent fields near a surface, this has been…

The relative orientation (twist) of successive layers of stacked two-dimensional (2D) materials creates variations in the interlayer atomic registry. The variations often form a super lattice, called a moir\'e pattern, which can alter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Stephen Carr , Daniel Massatt , Mitchell Luskin , Efthimios Kaxiras

The collective excitations of electrons in the bulk or at the surface, namely plasmons, play an important role in the properties of materials, and have generated the field of plasmonics. We report the observation of a highly unusual plasmon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Partha Goswami , U. P. Tyagi

We report experimental and theoretical studies of MoTe$_2$-MoSe$_2$ heterobilayers with rigid moir\'e superlattices controlled by the twist angle. Using an effective continuum model that combines resonant interlayer electron tunneling with…

The long wavelength moir\'e superlattices in twisted 2D structures have emerged as a highly tunable platform for strongly correlated electron physics. We study the moir\'e bands in twisted transition metal dichalcogenide homobilayers,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-19 Trithep Devakul , Valentin Crépel , Yang Zhang , Liang Fu

Moving metasurfaces support guided waves exhibiting unusual optical properties, including strong anisotropy, nonreciprocity, and hyperbolic dispersion. However, for these phenomena to be noticeable, high speeds are typically required,…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-22 Yarden Mazor , Andrea Alù

Twist-controlled moire superlattices (MS) have emerged as a versatile platform in which to realize artificial systems with complex electronic spectra. Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene (BLG) and hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) form an…

The moir\'e superlattice of misaligned atomic bilayers paves the way for designing a new class of materials with wide tunability. In this work, we propose a photonic analog of the moir\'e superlattice based on dielectric resonator…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-09 Chang-Hwan Yi , Hee Chul Park , Moon Jip Park

Graphene is an atomically thin plasmonic medium that supports highly confined plasmon polaritons, or nano-light, with very low loss. Electronic properties of graphene can be drastically altered when it is laid upon another graphene layer,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-25 S. S. Sunku , G. X. Ni , B. -Y. Jiang , H. Yoo , A. Sternbach , A. S. McLeod , T. Stauber , L. Xiong , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , P. Kim , M. M. Fogler , D. N. Basov

We reveal the existence of a new type of surface electromagnetic waves supported by hyperbolic metasurfaces, described by a conductivity tensor with an indefinite signature. We demonstrate that the spectrum of the hyperbolic metasurface…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-24 O. Yermakov , A. Ovcharenko , A. Bogdanov , I. Iorsh , Yu. S. Kivshar

Observation of strong correlations and superconductivity in twisted-bilayer-graphene have stimulated tremendous interest in fundamental and applied physics. In this system, the superposition of two twisted honeycomb lattices, generating a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-03-14 Zengming Meng , Liangwei Wang , Wei Han , Fangde Liu , Kai Wen , Chao Gao , Pengjun Wang , Cheng Chin , Jing Zhang

Harnessing electronic excitations involving coherent coupling to bosonic modes is essential for the design and control of emergent phenomena in quantum materials [1]. In situations where charge carriers induce a lattice distortion due to…

In twisted bilayer graphene, long-wavelength lattice fluctuations on the scale of the moir\'e period are dominated by phason modes, i.e., acoustic branches of the incommensurate lattice resulting from coherent superpositions of optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-30 Héctor Ochoa

Hyperbolic materials are receiving significant attention due to their ability to support electromagnetic fields with arbitrarily high momenta and, hence, to achieve very strong light confinement. Here, based on first-principles calculations…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-25 Zahra Torbatian , Dino Novko , Reza Asgari

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…

Twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides are ideal platforms to study flat-band phenomena. In this paper, we investigate flat-band plasmons in the hole-doped twisted bilayer MoS$_2$ (tb-MoS$_2$) by employing a full tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Xueheng Kuang , Zhen Zhan , Shengjun Yuan

We derive a material-realistic real-space many-body Hamiltonian for twisted bilayer graphene from first principles, including both single-particle hopping terms for $p_z$ electrons and long-range Coulomb interactions. By disentangling low-…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-24 Tom Westerhout , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Malte Rösner

Twisted bilayers of two-dimensional (2D) materials have emerged as a highly tunable platform to study and engineer properties of excitons. However, the atomistic description of these properties has remained a significant challenge as a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-13 Indrajit Maity , Arash A. Mostofi , Johannes Lischner

Two-dimensional heterostructures with layers of slightly different lattice vectors exhibit a new periodic structure known as moire lattices. Moire lattice formation provides a powerful new way to engineer the electronic structure of…

Inspired by the rich physics of twisted 2D bilayer moir\'{e} systems, we study Coulomb interacting systems subjected to two overlapping finite 1D lattice potentials of unequal periods through exact numerical diagonalization. Unmatching…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 DinhDuy Vu , S. Das Sarma