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Recent advances in the field of vertically stacked 2D materials have revealed a rich exciton landscape. In particular, it has been demonstrated that out-of-plane electrical fields can be used to tune the spectral position of spatially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Joakim Hagel , Samuel Brem , Ermin Malic

Since the discovery of the fascinating properties in magic-angle graphene, the exploration of moir\'e systems in other two-dimensional materials has garnered significant attention and given rise to a field known as 'moir\'e physics'. Within…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Zhao Gong , Qing-Qing Zhang , Hui-Ying Mu , Xing-Tao An , Jian-Jun Liu

Moir\'e superlattices serve as a playground for emerging phenomena, such as localization of band states, superconductivity, and localization of excitons. These superlattices are large and are often modeled in the zero angle limit, which…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-01 Christopher Linderälv , Joakim Hagel , Samuel Brem , Ermin Malic , Paul Erhart

Distinguished by their long lifetimes, strong dipolar interactions, and periodic confinement, moir\'e excitons provide a fertile territory for realizing interaction-driven excitonic phases beyond conventional semiconductor systems. Formed…

Spatial control of topology is highly desirable for realizing tunable quantum functionalities in materials. Moir\'e superlattices formed by twisting van der Waals heterostructures provide a natural platform for spatially modulated…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-28 Arjyama Bordoloi , Daniel Kaplan , Sobhit Singh

Moir\'e potentials in two-dimensional materials have been proven to be of fundamental importance to fully understand the electronic structure of van der Waals heterostructures, from superconductivity to correlated excitonic states. However,…

The interplay between many-body and spin-orbit effects (SOC) can lead to novel phenomena in solids. Chiral spin modes (CSM) are collective spin excitations that arise from such interplay and connect states with opposite chirality, which,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Zhexu Shan , Wenjian Su , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Shiyao Zhu , Yuanfeng Xu , Yanhao Tang

A twist between two systems offers the possibility to drastically change the underlying physical properties. To that end, we study the bandstructure of twisted moir\'e potentials in detail. At sets of commensurate twisting angles, the low…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-04-11 Dean Johnstone , Shanya Mishra , Zhaoxuan Zhu , Laurent Sanchez-Palencia

We develop a systematic theory for excitons subject to Fermi-Hubbard physics in moir\'e twisted transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Specifically, we consider excitons in moir\'e systems for which the valence band is in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-07 T. -S. Huang , Yang-Zhi Chou , C. L. Baldwin , Fengcheng Wu , Mohammad Hafezi

Van der Waals heterostructures based on TMDC semiconducting materials have emerged as promising materials due to their spin-valley properties efficiently contrived by the stacking-twist angle. The twist angle drastically alters the…

Moire patterns result from setting a 2D material such as graphene on another 2D material with a small twist angle or from the lattice mismatch of 2D heterostructures. We present a continuum model for the elastic energy of these bilayer…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Paul Cazeaux , Drake Clark , Rebecca Engelke , Philip Kim , Mitchell Luskin

Strain-induced lattice mismatch leads to moir\'{e} patterns in homobilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). We investigate the structural and electronic properties of such strained moir\'{e} patterns in TMD homobilayers. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-21 Sudipta Kundu , Indrajit Maity , Robin Bajaj , H. R. Krishnamurthy , Manish Jain

We propose an effective lattice model for the moir\'e structure of the twisted bilayer dice lattice. In the chiral limit, we find that there are flat bands at the zero-energy level at any twist angle besides the magic ones and these flat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-25 Di Ma , Yu-Ge Chen , Yue Yu , Xi Luo

Atomically thin moir\'e materials behave like elastic membranes where at very small twist angles, the van der Waals adhesion energy much exceeds the strain energy. In this ``marginal twist" regime, regions with low adhesion energy expand,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-26 Christophe De Beule , Gayani N. Pallewela , Mohammed M. Al Ezzi , Liangtao Peng , E. J. Mele , Shaffique Adam

Recently, moir\'{e} superlattices have attracted considerable attentions because they are found to exhibit intriguing electronic phenomena of tunable Mott insulators and unconventional superconductivity. These phenomena are highly related…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 Henan Fang , Mingwen Xiao

We explore the moir\'e magnon bands in twisted bilayer magnets with next-nearest neighboring Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions, assuming that the out-of-plane collinear magnetic order is preserved under weak interlayer coupling. By…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-07 Yu-Hang Li , Ran Cheng

The unique physics found in moir\'e superlattices of twisted or lattice-mismatched atomic layers hold great promise for future quantum technologies. However, twisted configurations are typically thermodynamically unfavorable, making the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-02 Matthieu Fortin-Deschênes , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Fengnian Xia

Twisting layers provide a rich ore for exotic physics in low dimensions. Despite the abundant discoveries of twistronics from the aspect of electronic structures, ferroic moir\'e textures are more plain and thus less concerned. Rigid…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-06 Haoshen Ye , Shuai Dong

We develop a continuum dislocation description of twist and stretch moire superlattices in 2D material bilayers. The continuum formulation is based on the topological constraints introduced by the periodic dislocation network associated…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-18 Emil Annevelink , Harley Johnson , Elif Ertekin

The formation of interfacial moir\'e patterns from angular and/or lattice mismatch has become a powerful approach to engineer a range of quantum phenomena in van der Waals heterostructures. For long-lived and valley-polarized interlayer…

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