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Inter-cell and/or interlayer coupling in Moire superlattices can generate flatbands and collective eigenmodes that enable emergent physical phenomena, motivating extensive exploration of Moire-inspired photonic devices. However, the…

Moir\'e materials host a wealth of intertwined correlated and topological states of matter, all arising from flat electronic bands with nontrivial quantum geometry. A prominent example is the family of alternating-twist magic-angle graphene…

The relaxation of moir\'e superlattices in twisted bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) has been modeled using a set of neural-network-based approaches. We implemented and compared several architectures, including (i) an…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-09-17 Aleksei V. Belonovskii , Elizaveta I. Girshova , Erkki Lähderanta , Mikhail Kaliteevski

Moir\'e superlattices in two-dimensional materials provide a versatile platform to explore strongly correlated and topological phases. This work presents a practical theoretical workflow for studying the correlated and topological states in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-09 Xin Lu , Bo Xie , Jianpeng Liu

Structural moir\'e superstructures arising from two competing lattices may lead to unexpected electronic behavior, such as superconductivity or Mottness. Most investigated moir\'e heterostructures are based on van der Waals (vdW) materials,…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-10 Bing Liu , Tim Wagner , Stefan Enzner , Philipp Eck , Martin Kamp , Giorgio Sangiovanni , Ralph Claessen

Moir\'e patterns are a central motif in van der Waals heterostructures arising from the superposition of two-dimensional (2D) incommensurate lattices. These patterns reveal a wealth of correlated effects, influencing electronic, magnetic,…

Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) images are obtained for the first time on few layer and twisted multilayer epitaxial graphene states synthesized on n+ 6H-SiC a-plane non-polar surface. The twisted graphene is determined to have a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 P. Xu , M. L. Ackerman , S. D. Barber , J. K. Schoelz , P. M. Thibado , V. D. Wheeler , L. O. Nyakiti , R. L. Myers-Ward , C. R. Eddy , D. K. Gaskill

We introduce helical twisted quadrilayer graphene (HTQG), four graphene sheets rotated by the same small angle, as a versatile and experimentally accessible platform for correlated topological matter. HTQG consists of three moir\'e…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-06 Manato Fujimoto , Naoto Nakatsuji , Ashvin Vishwanath , Patrick Ledwith

We study the atomic structure of twisted bilayer graphene, with very small mismatch angles ($\theta \sim 0.28^0$), a topic of intense recent interest. We use simulations, in which we combine a recently presented semi-empirical potential for…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-15 Sandeep K. Jain , Vladimir Juricic , Gerard T. Barkema

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…

Twisted multilayer graphene, characterized by its moir\'e patterns arising from inter-layer rotational misalignment, serves as a rich platform for exploring quantum phenomena. Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are a promising…

Moir\'e superlattices created by the twisted stacking of two-dimensional crystalline monolayers can host electronic bands with flat energy dispersion in which interaction among electrons is strongly enhanced. These superlattices can also…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 Xiaomeng Liu , Cheng-Li Chiu , Jong Yeon Lee , Gelareh Farahi , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ashvin Vishwanath , Ali Yazdani

We study the effects of strain in moir\'e systems composed of honeycomb lattices. We elucidate the formation of almost perfect one-dimensional moir\'e patterns in twisted bilayer systems. The formation of such patterns is a consequence of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-20 Andreas Sinner , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Francisco Guinea

This paper presents a unified framework for determining the congruences on a number of monoids and categories of transformations, diagrams, matrices and braids, and on all their ideals. The key theoretical advances present an iterative…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-05-26 James East , Nik Ruskuc

Imposing incommensurable periodicity on the periodic atomic lattice can lead to complex structural phases consisting of locally periodic structure bounded by topological defects. Twisted trilayer graphene (TTG) is an ideal material platform…

Moir\'e superlattices in twisted van der Waals materials constitute a promising platform for engineering electronic and optical properties. However, a major obstacle to fully understanding these systems and harnessing their potential is the…

Moir\'e superlattices in van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures have given rise to a number of emergent electronic phenomena due to the interplay between atomic structure and electron correlations. A lack of a simple way to characterize…

Rotational misalignment or twisting of two mono-layers of graphene strongly influences its electronic properties. Structurally, twisting leads to large periodic supercell structures, which in turn can support intriguing strongly correlated…

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…

Moir\'e effects in twisted or lattice-incommensurate vertical assemblies of two-dimensional crystals give rise to a new class of quantum materials with rich transport and optical phenomena, including correlated electron physics in flat…