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Twisted bilayers of two-dimensional (2D) materials are proving a fertile ground for investigating strongly correlated electron phases. This is because the moir\'e pattern introduced by the relative twist between layers introduces…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-13 Hao Tang , Stephen Carr , Efthimios Kaxiras

We present a low-energy model describing the reconstruction of the electronic spectrum in twisted bilayers of honeycomb crystals with broken sublattice symmetry. The resulting moir\'e patterns are classified into two families with different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 H. Ochoa , A. Asenjo-Garcia

Motivated by recent experiments demonstrating the creation of atomically sharp interfaces between hexagonal sapphire and cubic SrTiO$_3$ with finite twist, we here develop and study a general electronic band theory for this novel class of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-18 Bernhard Putzer , Lucas V. Pupim , Mathias S. Scheurer

Sliding and twisting van der Waals layers with respect to each other gives rise to moir\'e structures with emergent electronic properties. Electrons in these moir\'e structures feel weak potentials that are typically in the tens of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-14 Drew Edelberg , Hemant Kumar , Vivek Shenoy , Héctor Ochoa , Abhay N. Pasupathy

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

We present a systematic theoretical study on the structural and electronic properties of twisted trilayer transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) WSe$_2$, where two independent moir\'e patterns form between adjacent layers. Using a continuum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Naoto Nakatsuji , Takuto Kawakami , Hayato Tateishi , Koichiro Kato , Mikito Koshino

Engineering moir\'e superlattices in van der Waals heterostructures provides fundamental control over emergent electronic, structural, and optical properties allowing to affect topological and correlated phenomena. This control is achieved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Dongdong An , Tao Zhang , Qiaoling Xu , Hailing Guo , Majeed Ur Rehman , Dante M. Kennes , Angel Rubio , Lei Wang , Lede Xian

Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures are an emergent class of metamaterials comprised of vertically stacked two-dimensional (2D) building blocks, which provide us with a vast tool set to engineer their properties on top of the already rich…

Twistronic assembly of 2D materials employs the twist angle between adjacent layers as a tuning parameter for designing the electronic and optical properties of van der Waals heterostructures. Here, we study how interlayer hybridization,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-21 Fábio Ferreira , Samuel Magorrian , Vladimir Enaldiev , David Ruiz-Tijerina , Vladimir Fal'ko

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

Twistronics, originally conceptualized within the electronics domain to modulate electronic properties through the twist angle between stacked two-dimensional (2D) materials, presents a groundbreaking approach in material science. This…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-02-22 Ingrid Torres , Alex Krasnok

Moir\'e superlattices, engineered through precise stacking of van der Waals (vdW) layers, hold immense promise for exploring strongly correlated and topological phenomena. However, these applications have been held back by the common…

Moir\'e superlattices formed in stacks of two or more 2D crystals with similar lattice structures have recently become excellent platforms to reveal new physics in low-dimensional systems. They are, however, highly sensitive to the angle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-15 Tianyu Zhang , Chengxin Xiao , Hongxia Xue , Wang Yao , Dong-Keun Ki

One-dimensional (1D) moir\'e superlattices provide a new route to engineering reduced-dimensional electronic states in van der Waals materials, yet their electronic structure and microscopic origin remain largely unexplored. Here, we…

We investigate the electronic structure of a twisted multilayer graphene system forming a moir\'e pattern. We consider small twist angles separating the graphene sheets and develop a low-energy theory to describe the coupling of Dirac Bloch…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Christophe Mora , Nicolas Regnault , B. Andrei Bernevig

Studies of moire systems have elucidated the exquisite effect of quantum geometry on the electronic bands and their properties, leading to the discovery of new correlated phases. However, most experimental studies have been confined to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-19 Zhurun Ji , Yuzhou Zhao , Yicong Chen , Ziyan Zhu , Yuhui Wang , Wenjing Liu , Gaurav Modi , Eugene J. Mele , Song Jin , Ritesh Agarwal

We study the effects of heterostrain on moir\'e bands in twisted bilayer graphene and bilayer transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) systems. For bilayer graphene with twist angle near $1^\circ$, we show that heterostrain significantly…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-07 Zhen Bi , Noah F. Q. Yuan , Liang Fu

When two-dimensional atomic crystals are brought into close proximity to form a van der Waals heterostructure, neighbouring crystals can start influencing each others electronic properties. Of particular interest is the situation when the…

Berry curvature physics and quantum geometric effects have been instrumental in advancing topological condensed matter physics in recent decades. Although Landau level-based flat bands and conventional 3D solids have been pivotal in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 Pratap Chandra Adak , Subhajit Sinha , Amit Agarwal , Mandar M. Deshmukh

The emergence of twistronics provides an unprecedented platform to modulate the band structure, resulting in exotic electronic phenomena ranging from ferromagnetism to superconductivity. However, such concept on phonon engineering is still…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-25 Yufeng Zhang , Meng An , Dongxing Song , Haidong Wang , Weigang Ma , Xing Zhang