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The metal-insulator transition (MIT) driven by electronic correlations is a fundamental and challenging problem in condensed-matter physics. Particularly, whether such a transition can be continuous remains open. The emergence of…

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Van der Waals heterostructures constitute a platform for investigating intriguing many-body quantum phenomena. In particular, transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) hetero-bilayers host long-lived interlayer excitons which exhibit permanent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Daniel Erkensten , Samuel Brem , Raül Perea-Causin , Ermin Malic

A new frontier in van der Waals twistronics is the development of three-dimensional (3D) supertwisted materials, where each successive atomic layer rotates by the same angle. While two-dimensional (2D) moire systems have been extensively…

Moir\'{e} superlattices in transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures provide a platform to engineer many-body interactions. Here, we realize a bichromatic moir\'{e} superlattice in an asymmetric WSe$_2$/WS$_2$/WSe$_2$ heterotrilayer…

Motivated by the recent experiments on van der Waals heterostructures involving metallic and Mott insulating layers, we construct a moir\'e extension of the Kondo-Heisenberg model and study its phase diagram via Abrikosov fermion mean field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-13 Jyotirish Das , Onur Erten

We report on the spatial coherence of interlayer exciton ensembles as formed in MoSe$_2$/WSe$_2$ heterostructures and characterized by point-inversion Michelson-Morley interferometry. Below 10 K, the measured spatial coherence length of the…

Two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures (HS) exhibit twist-angle ($\theta$) dependent interlayer charge transfer, driven by moir\'e potential that tunes the electronic band structure with varying $\theta$. Apart from the magic angles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-04 Vikas Arora , Pramoda K Nayak , Victor S Muthu , A K Sood

Moir\'{e} superlattices formed in WS$_2$/WSe$_2$ heterobilayers have emerged as an exciting platform to explore the quantum many-body physics. The key mechanism is the introduction of moir\'{e} potentials for the band-edge carriers induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Youwen Wang , Nanya Gao , Qingjun Tong

The emerging field of twistronics, which harnesses the twist angle between two-dimensional materials, represents a promising route for the design of quantum materials, as the twist-angle-induced superlattices offer means to control topology…

Twisted bilayers of two-dimensional semiconductors offer a versatile platform to engineer quantum states for charge carriers using moir\'e superlattice effects. Among the systems of recent interest are twistronic MoSe${}_{2}$/WSe${}_{2}$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-30 Isaac Soltero , Mikhail A. Kaliteevski , James G. McHugh , Vladimir V. Enaldiev , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

Interlayer excitons in layered materials constitute a novel platform to study many-body phenomena arising from long-range interactions between quantum particles. The ability to localise individual interlayer excitons in potential energy…

Excitons in semiconductors, bound pairs of excited electrons and holes, can form the basis for new classes of quantum optoelectronic devices. A van der Waals heterostructure built from atomically thin semiconducting transition metal…

Excitons dominate the optics of atomically-thin transition metal dichalcogenides and 2D van der Waals heterostructures. Interlayer 2D excitons, with an electron and a hole residing in different layers, form rapidly in heterostructures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-20 M. G. Burdanova , M. Liu , M. Staniforth , Y. Zheng , R. Xiang , S. Chiashi , A. Anisimov , E. I. Kauppinen , S. Maruyama , J. Lloyd-Hughes

Excitonic states of tightly-bound electron-hole pairs dominate the optical response in a growing class of two-dimensional (2D) materials and their van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures. In transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) a useful…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Jiayu David Cao , Konstantin S. Denisov , Igor Zutic

III-nitride wide bandgap semiconductors exhibit large exciton binding energies, preserving strong excitonic effects at room temperature. On the other hand, semiconducting two-dimensional (2D) materials, including MoS$_2$, also exhibit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-23 Danxuan Chen , Jin Jiang , Thomas F. K. Weatherley , Jean-François Carlin , Mitali Banerjee , Nicolas Grandjean

Coulomb bound electron-hole pairs, excitons, govern the optical properties of semi-conducting transition metal dichalcogenides like MoS$_2$ and WSe$_2$. We study optical transitions at the K-point for 2H homobilayer MoS$_2$ in Density…

The creation of moir\'e superlattices in twisted bilayers of two-dimensional crystals has been utilised to engineer quantum material properties in graphene and transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductors. Here, we examine the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-27 J. G. McHugh , V. V. Enaldiev , V. I. Fal'ko

Mott insulating behavior is induced by strong electron correlation and can lead to exotic states of matter such as unconventional superconductivity and quantum spin liquids. Recent advances in van der Waals material synthesis enable the…

Excitons in monolayer semiconductors have large optical transition dipole for strong coupling with light field. Interlayer excitons in heterobilayers, with layer separation of electron and hole components, feature large electric dipole that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-07 Wei-Ting Hsu , Bo-Han Lin , Li-Syuan Lu , Ming-Hao Lee , Ming-Wen Chu , Lain-Jong Li , Wang Yao , Wen-Hao Chang , Chih-Kang Shih

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