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Moir\'e materials provide a unique platform for studies of correlated many-body physics of the Fermi-Hubbard model on triangular spin-charge lattices. Bilayer Hubbard models are of particular significance with regard to the physics of Mott…

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

Moir\'e superlattices formed in two-dimensional semiconductor heterobilayers provide a new realization of Hubbard model physics in which the number of electrons per effective atom can be tuned at will. We report on an exact diagonalization…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-10 Nicolás Morales-Durán , Pawel Potasz , Allan H. MacDonald

Moir\'e structures in van der Waals heterostructures lead to emergent phenomena including superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene and optically accessible strongly-correlated electron states in transition metal dichalcogenide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-17 Liam P. McDonnell , Jacob J. S. Viner , Pasqual Rivera , Antonio Cammarata , Huseyin S. Sen , Xiaodong Xu , David C. Smith

The low symmetry and anistropic lattice of 1T$'$ WTe$_2$ is responsible for the existence of parallel one-dimensional channels in the moir\'e patterns of twisted bilayers. This gives the opportunity to explore moir\'e physics of a different…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-11 Samuel J. Magorrian , Nicholas D. M. Hine

The ability to control the properties of twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides in situ makes them an ideal platform for investigating the interplay of strong correlations and geometric frustration. Of particular interest are the…

Tailoring electron transfer dynamics across solid-liquid interfaces is fundamental to the interconversion of electrical and chemical energy. Stacking atomically thin layers with a very small azimuthal misorientation to produce moir\'e…

We develop a twist-angle transferable continuum model for twisted transition metal dichalcogenide (tTMD) homobilayers, using tMoTe2 and tWSe2 as examples. All model parameters are extracted from density functional theory (DFT) calculations…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-26 Xiao-Wei Zhang , Kaijie Yang , Chong Wang , Xiaoyu Liu , Ting Cao , Di Xiao

We report on the theoretical electronic spectra of twisted phosphorene bilayers exhibiting moir\'e patterns, as computed by means of a continuous approximation to the moir\'e superlattice Hamiltonian. Our model is constructed by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-23 Isaac Soltero , Jonathan Guerrero-Sánchez , Francisco Mireles , David A. Ruiz-Tijerina

Twisted graphene bilayers provide a versatile platform to engineer metamaterials with novel emergent properties by exploiting the resulting geometric moir\'{e} superlattice. Such superlattices are known to host bulk valley currents at tiny…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 T. M. R. Wolf , J. L. Lado , G. Blatter , O. Zilberberg

Moir\'e superlattices in twistronic heterostructures are a powerful tool for materials engineering. In marginally twisted (small misalignment angle, $\theta$) bilayers of nearly lattice-matched two-dimensional (2D) crystals moir\'e patterns…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 V. V. Enaldiev , F. Ferreira , J. G. McHugh , V. I. Fal'ko

Atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials can be vertically stacked with van der Waals bonds, which enable interlayer coupling. In the particular case of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayers, the relative direction between…

Twisted bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have revealed a rich exciton landscape including hybrid excitons and spatially trapped moir\'e excitons that dominate the optical response of the material. Recent studies have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Joakim Hagel , Samuel Brem , Johannes Abelardo Pineiro , Ermin Malic

Atomically-thin layers of two-dimensional materials can be assembled in vertical stacks held together by relatively weak van der Waals forces, allowing for coupling between monolayer crystals with incommensurate lattices and arbitrary…

Moir\'e superlattices of van der Waals heterostructures provide a powerful new way to engineer the electronic structures of two-dimensional (2D) materials. Many novel quantum phenomena have emerged in different moir\'e heterostructures,…

Two-dimensional moir\'e materials are formed by artificially stacking atomically thin monolayers. A wealth of correlated and topological quantum phases can be engineered via precise choice of stacking geometry. These designer electronic…

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

Twisted 2D bilayer materials are created by artificial stacking of two monolayer crystal networks of 2D materials with a desired twisting angle $\theta$. The material forms a moir\'e superlattice due to the periodicity of both top and…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-11 Yang Pan , Shutong Li , Mahfujur Rahaman , Ilya Milekhin , Dietrich R. T. Zahn

Topological flat bands at the Fermi level offer a promising platform to study a variety of intriguing correlated phase of matter. Here we present band engineering in the twisted orbital-active bilayers with spin-orbit coupling. The symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-15 Huan Wang , Yadong Jiang , Zhaochen Liu , Jing Wang

Moir\'{e} superlattices in twisted bilayer graphene and transition-metal dichalcogenides have emerged as a powerful tool for engineering novel band structures and quantum phases of two-dimensional quantum materials. Here we investigate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-03-17 Xi-Wang Luo , Chuanwei Zhang