English
Related papers

Related papers: Parity-Dependent Moir\'e Superlattices in Graphene…

200 papers

Moir\'e superlattices constitute a versatile platform to investigate emergent phenomena arising from the interplay of strong correlations and topology, while offering flexible in situ tunability. However, the fabrication of such moir\'e…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Shuwen Sun , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

The incommensurate stacking of multi-layered two-dimensional materials is a challenging problem from a theoretical perspective and an intriguing avenue for manipulating their physical properties. Here we present a multi-scale model to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Ziyan Zhu , Paul Cazeaux , Mitchell Luskin , Efthimios Kaxiras

Moir\'e superlattices have emerged as a versatile platform for exploring a wide range of ex- otic quantum phenomena. Unlike angstrom-scale materials, the moir\'e length-scale system contains a large number of atoms, and its electronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-10 Xueheng Kuang , Federico Escudero , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Francisco Guinea , Zhen Zhan

The detailed study of the graphene (gr) moir\'e superlattices emerging due to the mismatch between the substrate's and gr-overlayer crystal lattices is inevitable because of its high technological relevance. However, little is known about…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-03 P. Süle , M. Szendrő

The van der Waals heterostructures are a fertile frontier for discovering emergent phenomena in condensed matter systems. They are constructed by stacking elements of a large library of two-dimensional materials, which couple together…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-22 William Dorrell , Harris Pirie , S. Minhal Gardezi , Nathan C. Drucker , Jennifer E. Hoffman

We report intriguing and hitherto overlooked low-field room temperature extremely large magnetoresistance (XMR) patterns in graphene/hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) superlattices that emerge due to the existence of open orbits within each…

Ferroelectricity (Valasek, J. Phys. Rev. 1921, 17, 475) - a spontaneous formation of electric polarisation - is a solid state phenomenon, usually, associated with ionic compounds or complex materials. Here we show that, atypically for…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-29 Aitor Garcia-Ruiz , Vladimir Enaldiev , Andrew McEllistrim , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

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

Standing wave patterns that arise on the surface of ferrofluids by (single frequency) parametric forcing with an ac magnetic field are investigated experimentally. Depending on the frequency and amplitude of the forcing, the system exhibits…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Hyun-Jae Pi , So-yeon Park , Jysoo Lee , Kyoung J. Lee

We report on the Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) observation of linear fringes together with spatially varying super-lattice structures on (0001) graphite (HOPG) surface. The structure, present in a region of a layer bounded by two…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-02-11 S. K. Choudhary , A. K. Gupta

We propose a class of graphene-based moir\'e systems hosting flat bands on kagome and honeycomb moir\'e superlattices. These systems are formed by stacking a graphene layer on a 2D substrate with lattice constant approximately $\sqrt{3}$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-18 Michael G. Scheer , Biao Lian

Moir\'e lattices provide a highly tunable platform for exploring the interplay between electronic correlations and band topology. Introducing a second moir\'e pattern extends this paradigm: interference between the two moir\'e patterns…

Two-dimensional materials on metallic surfaces or stacked one on top of the other can form a variety of moir\'e superstructures depending on the possible parameter and symmetry mismatch and misorientation angle. In most cases, such as…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-10 Virginia Carnevali , Stefano Marcantoni , Maria Peressi

Inspired by the recent experimental discovery of superconductivity emerging from a time-reversal symmetry-breaking normal state in tetralayer rhombohedral graphene, we here investigate superconducting instabilities in this system. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-13 Maine Christos , Pietro M. Bonetti , Mathias S. Scheurer

We study the atomic and electronic structures of the commensurate double moir\'{e} superlattices in fully relaxed twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) nearly aligned with the hexagonal boron nitride (BN). The single-particle effective Hamiltonian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-31 Xianqing Lin , Jun Ni

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…

Moir\'e patterns on Highly Oriented Pyrolytic Graphite surfaces due to dislocated graphene layers were studied. We observed that the apparent corrugations of the moir\'e patterns in scanning tunnelling microscopy images change as a function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-04 Dilek Yıldız , H. Şener Şen , Oğuz Gülseren , Oğuzhan Gürlü

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

Heterostructures of stacked two-dimensional lattices have shown great promise for engineering novel material properties. As an archetypal example of such a system, the hexagon-shared honeycomb-kagome lattice has been experimentally…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-21 Chan Bin Bark , Hanbyul Kim , Seik Pak , Hong-Guk Min , Sungkyun Ahn , Youngkuk Kim , Moon Jip Park

We introduce trilayer and multilayer moir\'e heterostructures that cannot be viewed from the ``moir\'e-of-moir\'e" perspective of helically-twisted trilayer graphene. These ``intrinsically trilayer" moir\'e systems feature periodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 Aaron Dunbrack , Jennifer Cano