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In twisted bilayers of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), a combination of structural rippling and electronic coupling gives rise to periodic moir\'e potentials that can confine charged and neutral excitations. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-04 Sara Shabani , Dorri Halbertal , Wenjing Wu , Mingxing Chen , Song Liu , James Hone , Wang Yao , Dmitri N. Basov , Xiaoyang Zhu , Abhay N. Pasupathy

Twisted multilayers of two-dimensional (2D) materials are an increasingly important platform for investigating quantum phases of matter, and in particular, strongly correlated electrons. The moir\'e pattern introduced by the relative twist…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-11 Mattia Angeli , Gabriel R. Schleder , Efthimios Kaxiras

Moire superlattices in twisted transition metal dichalcogenide bilayers have emerged as a rich platform for exploring strong correlations using optical spectroscopy. Despite observation of rich Mott-Wigner physics stemming from an interplay…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Ido Schwartz , Yuya Shimazaki , Clemens Kuhlenkamp , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Martin Kroner , Ataç Imamoğlu

Bilayer Moir\'e structures are a highly tunable laboratory to investigate the physics of strongly correlated electron systems. Moir\'e transition metal dichalcogenides at low-energies, in particular, are believed to be described by a single…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-11-29 Mehdi Biderang , Mohammad-Hossein Zare , Jesko Sirker

Artificially twisted heterostructures of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) offer unprecedented control over their electronic and optical properties via the spatial modulation of interlayer interactions and structural…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-25 Nikhil Tilak , Guohong Li , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Eva Y. Andrei

The valence flat bands in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterobilayers are shown to exhibit strong intralayer spin-orbit coupling. This is reflected in a simple tight-binding model with spin-dependent complex hoppings based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Louk Rademaker

Semiconductor moir\'e superlattices have been shown to host a wide array of interaction-driven ground states. However, twisted homobilayers have been difficult to study in the limit of large moir\'e wavelength, where interactions are most…

Twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ is a promising platform to investigate the interplay between band topology and many-body interaction. We present a theoretical study of its interaction-driven quantum phase diagrams based on a three-orbital model,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-16 Wen-Xuan Qiu , Bohao Li , Xun-Jiang Luo , Fengcheng Wu

Twisted bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors have enabled the discovery of superconductivity, ferromagnetism, correlated insulators and a series of new topological phases of matter. However, the connection between…

The discovery of flat-bands in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has underscored the potential of moire engineering for correlated states, but such phases are notoriously difficult to realize and highly fragile against perturbations.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Yalan Wei , Shifang Li , Yuke Song , Chaoyu He

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…

Twisted magnetic van der Waals (vdW) materials offer a promising route for multiferroic engineering, yet modeling large-scale moir\'e superlattices remains challenging. Leveraging a newly developed SpinGNN++ framework that effectively…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-24 Haiyan Zhu , Hongyu Yu , Weiqin Zhu , Guoliang Yu , Changsong Xu , Hongjun Xiang

A minimal model of a graphene topological insulator heterostructure is considered, where a moire superlattice modulates the Rashba spin orbit interaction. In the spin degenerate, spin orbit free limit, the reduced Brillouin zone contains…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Paula Mellado

The relative twist angle between layers of near-lattice-matched van der Waals materials is critical for the emergent correlated phenomena associated with moire flat bands. However, the concept of angle rotation control is not exclusive to…

The recent discovery of topological flat bands in twisted transition metal dichalcogenide homobilayers and multilayer graphene has sparked significant research interest. We propose a new platform for realizing tunable topological moire flat…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-08 Xilong Xu , Haonan Wang , Li Yang

In commensurate twisted homobilayers, purely radial Rashba spin-orbit fields can emerge. We employ first-principles calculations to investigate the band structures and the spin-orbit fields close to the high-symmetry points $K$ and $\Gamma$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Thomas Naimer , Paulo E. Faria Junior , Klaus Zollner , Jaroslav Fabian

We investigate the influence of different spin-orbit couplings on topological phase transitions in the bilayer Kane-Mele model. We find that the competition between intrinsic spin-orbit coupling and Rashba spin-orbit coupling can lead to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-15 Hui Pan , Xin Li , Zhenhua Qiao , Cheng-Cheng Liu , Yugui Yao , Shengyuan A. Yang

We investigate strong coupling topological superconductivity in twisted moir\'e bilayer WSe$_2$. Our approach is based on an effective $t$-$J$ model with displacement-field-dependent complex hoppings, which is treated with the variational…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-15 Waseem Akbar , Andrzej Biborski , Louk Rademaker , Michał Zegrodnik

At $n=3/4$ filling of the moir\'e flat band, transition metal dichalcogenide moir\'e bilayers will develop kagome charge order. We derive an effective spin model for the resulting localized spins and find that its further neighbor spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-06 Johannes Motruk , Dario Rossi , Dmitry A. Abanin , Louk Rademaker

Recent experiments in twisted bilayer transition-metal dichalcogenides have revealed a variety of strongly correlated phenomena. To theoretically explore their origin, we combine here ab initio calculations with correlated model approaches…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-03 Marta Brzezińska , Sergii Grytsiuk , Malte Rösner , Marco Gibertini , Louk Rademaker