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Recent advances in twistronics of low-dimensional materials, such as bilayer graphene and transition-metal dichalcogenides, have enabled a plethora of unusual phenomena associated with moir\'e physics. However, several of these effects…

Optics · Physics 2020-05-18 Guangwei Hu , Alex Krasnok , Yarden Mazor , Cheng-Wei Qiu , Andrea Alù

Due to the large-period superlattices emerging in moire two-dimensional (2D) materials, electronic states in such systems exhibit low energy flat bands that can be used to simulate strongly correlated physics in a highly tunable setup.…

Symmetry plays a central role in defining magnetic phases, making tunable symmetry breaking across magnetic transitions highly desirable for discovering non-trivial magnetism. Magnetic moir\'e superlattices, formed by twisting…

We introduce twisted anisotropic homobilayers as a distinct class of moir\'e systems, characterized by a distinctive ``magic angle", $\theta_M$, where both the moir\'e unit cell and Brillouin zone collapse. Unlike conventional studies of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-04 D. J. P. de Sousa , Seungjun Lee , Francisco Guinea , Tony Low

Moir\'e superlattices in two-dimensional (2D) materials exhibit rich quantum phenomena, but ab initio modelling of these systems remains computationally prohibitive. Existing machine learning methods for accelerating density-functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-11 Zekun Lou , Alan M. Lewis , Mariana Rossi

The Moir\'e patterns generated by altering the structural parameters in a two or more layers of periodic materials, including single-layer structure, interlayer stacking, and twisting parameters, exhibit prosperous topological physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Peng Peng , Yuchen Peng , Aoqian Shi , Xiaogen Yi , Yizhou Wei , Jianjun Liu

Moir{\'e} heterostructures, created by stacking two-dimensional (2D) materials together with a finite lattice mismatch or rotational twist, represent a new frontier of designer quantum materials. Typically, however, this requires the…

Nanophotonic devices with moir\'e superlattice is currently attracting broad interest due to the unique periodicity and high efficiency control of photons. Till now, experimental investigations mainly focus on the single layer device, i.e.,…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-07 Qing Wang , Yuhang Li , Shaofeng Wang , Shuo Cao , Xiulai Xu , Chenjiang Qian

Twisted 2D materials form complex moir\'e structures that spontaneously reduce symmetry through picoscale deformation within a mesoscale lattice. We show twisted 2D materials contain a torsional displacement field comprised of three…

In long-wavelength moir\'e superlattices of stacked transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), structural reconstruction ubiquitously occurs, which has reported to impact significantly their electronic properties. However, complete…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-28 Kai-Hui Li , Fei-Ping Xiao , Wen Guan , Yu-Long Xiao , Chang Xu , Jin-Ding Zhang , Chen-Fang Lin , Dong Li , Qing-Jun Tong , Si-Yu Li , An-Lian Pan

We study magnetic geometries with Lifshitz and/or hyperscaling violation exponents (both with a hard wall cutoff in the IR and a smooth black brane horizon) which have a complex scalar field which couples to the magnetic field. The complex…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-08-28 Ning Bao , Sarah Harrison

Moir\'e superlattices can induce correlated-electronic phases in twisted van-der-Waals materials. Strongly correlated quantum phenomena emerge, such as superconductivity and the Mott-insulating state. However, moir\'e superlattices produced…

We discuss a two-dimensional system under the perturbation of a Moire potential, which takes the same geometry and lattice constant as the underlying lattices but mismatches up to relative rotation. Such a self-dual model belongs to the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-10-17 Biao Huang , W. Vincent Liu

Twisted van der Waals heterostructures and the corresponding superlattices, moire superlattices, are remarkable new material platforms, in which electron interactions and excited-state properties can be engineered. Particularly, the band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Xiaobo Lu , Xiaoqin Li , Li Yang

To study channeling radiation produced by an ultra-relativistic electron beam channeling through a single crystal, a lattice potential of the crystal is required for solving the transverse motion of beam electrons under the influence of the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-14 Jack J. Shi , Wade Rush

Moir\'e superlattices in the twisted bilayer graphene provide an unprecedented platform to investigate a wide range of exotic quantum phenomena. Recently, the twist degree of freedom has been introduced into various classical wave systems,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Weixuan Zhang , Deyuan Zou , Qingsong Pei , Wenjing He , Houjun Sun , Xiangdong Zhang

Ultraflat bands in twisted bilayers of two-dimensional materials have potential to host strong correlations, including the Mott-insulating phase at half-filling of the band. Using first principles density functional theory calculations, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-01-02 Mit H. Naik , Manish Jain

As a novel platform for exploring exotic quantum phenomena, the moir\'e lattice has garnered significant interest in solid-state physics, photonics, and cold atom physics. While moir\'e lattices in two- and three-dimensional systems have…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-10-22 Lu Zhou , Zheng-Chun Li , Keye Zhang , Zhihao Lan , Alessio Celi , Weiping Zhang

Quasicrystals are long-range ordered and yet non-periodic. This interplay results in a wealth of intriguing physical phenomena, such as the inheritance of topological properties from higher dimensions, and the presence of non-trivial…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-07-04 Konrad Viebahn , Matteo Sbroscia , Edward Carter , Jr-Chiun Yu , Ulrich Schneider

We lay down a nonlinear elastic constitutive framework for the modeling of some 2D crystals of current interest. The 2D crystals we treat are graphene, hexagonal boron nitride and some metal dichalcogenides: molybdenium disulfide (MoS$_2$),…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-17 D. Sfyris , G. I. Sfyris , C. Galiotis