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Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayers with an interlayer twist exhibit a moire super-period, whose effects can manifest in both structural and electronic properties. Atomic displacements can lead to reconstruction into domains of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-23 Madeleine Phillips , C. Stephen Hellberg

The creation of moir\'e patterns in crystalline solids is a powerful approach to manipulate their electronic properties, which are fundamentally influenced by periodic potential landscapes. In 2D materials, a moir\'e pattern with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Kyle L. Seyler , Pasqual Rivera , Hongyi Yu , Nathan P. Wilson , Essance L. Ray , David Mandrus , Jiaqiang Yan , Wang Yao , Xiaodong Xu

Recent experiments in twisted bilayer transition-metal dichalcogenides have revealed a variety of strongly correlated phenomena. To theoretically explore their origin, we combine here ab initio calculations with correlated model approaches…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-03 Marta Brzezińska , Sergii Grytsiuk , Malte Rösner , Marco Gibertini , Louk Rademaker

Moir\'e heterostructures consisting of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) hetero- and homobilayers have emerged as a promising material platform to study correlated electronic states. Optical signatures of strong correlations in the form…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-10 Natasha Kiper , Haydn S. Adlong , Arthur Christianen , Martin Kroner , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Atac Imamoglu

Two-dimensional (2D) moire systems based on twisted bilayer graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides provide a promising platform to investigate emergent phenomena driven by strong electron-electron interactions in partially-filled…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-28 Ya-Ning Ren , Hui-Ying Ren , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Lin He

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayers are a new class of tunable moir\'e systems attracting interest as quantum simulators of strongly-interacting electrons in two dimensions. In particular, recent theory predicts that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-01 Kevin Slagle , Liang Fu

The quantum spin Hall effect has been predicted in twisted homobilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) owing to the layer-pseudospin magnetic field. Recently, experimental observations have also confirmed such topological states of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Hao He , Zhao Gong , Qing-Jun Tong , Dawei Zhai , Wang Yao , Xing-Tao An

Superconductivity has recently been observed in moir\'e transition-metal dichalcogenide bilayers. Here, we investigate the superconducting state in twisted WSe$_2$ using two complementary theoretical approaches. The first is based on the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-07 Waseem Akbar , Michał Zegrodnik

Moir\'e materials, with superlattice periodicity many times the atomic length scale, have enabled the studies of strong electronic correlations and band topology with unprecedented tunability. However, nonvolatile control of the moir\'e…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-15 Kaifei Kang , Wenjin Zhao , Yihang Zeng , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jie Shan , Kin Fai Mak

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

Twisted bilayers of two-dimensional materials, such as twisted bilayer graphene, often feature flat electronic bands that enable the observation of electron correlation effects. In this work, we study the electronic structure of twisted…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-18 Valerio Vitale , Kemal Atalar , Arash A. Mostofi , Johannes Lischner

The moir\'e pattern observed in stacked non-commensurate crystal lattices, such as hetero-bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides, produces a periodic modulation of their bandgap. Excitons subjected to this potential landscape exhibit…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-09-08 I. R. Lavor , D. R. da Costa , L. Covaci , M. V. Milošević , F. M. Peeters , A. Chaves

Moir\'e transition metal dichalcogenides have served as a versatile platform for simulating Hubbard physics. Recent experiments have identified robust superconductivity in moir\'e bilayer WSe$_2$ for certain twist angles. Here, we propose…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-19 Hui-Ke Jin , Guangyue Ji , Zhan Wang , Jie Wang , Fu-Chun Zhang

Twisted transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayers exhibit periodic moir\'e potentials, which can trap excitons at certain high-symmetry sites. At small twist angles, TMD lattices undergo an atomic reconstruction, altering the moir\'e…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 Joakim Hagel , Samuel Brem , Ermin Malic

We revisit and extend the standard bosonic interpretation of interlayer excitons in the moir\'e potential of twisted heterostructures of transition-metal dichalcogenides. In our experiments, we probe a high quality MoSe$_2$/WSe$_2$ van der…

This work presents a first-principles study of the optoelectronic properties of vertically-stacked bilayer heterostructures composed of 2D transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). The calculations are performed using the density-functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-15 Khushboo Dange , Rachana Yogi , Alok Shukla

The observation of flat energy bands in transition metal dichalcogenide bilayers such as twisted WSe${}_2$ makes those materials interesting prospects for reproducing the behavior observed in graphene-based systems. We use an effective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-21 Mathieu Bélanger , Jérôme Fournier , David Sénéchal

For the first time, robust superconductivity has been independently observed in twisted WSe$_2$ bilayers by two separate groups [Y. Xia et al., arXiv:2405.14784; Y. Guo et al., arXiv:2406.03418.]. In light of this, we explore the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-14 Jihang Zhu , Yang-Zhi Chou , Ming Xie , Sankar Das Sarma

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

The valence band edge in tiny angle twist bilayers of MoS$_2$ and phosphorene is shown to consist of highly localized energy levels created by a `moir\'e quantum well', i.e. trapped by the interlayer moir\'e potential. These approximately…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 M. Fleischmann , R. Gupta , S. Sharma , S. Shallcross