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Twisted homobilayer transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) offers a versatile platform for exploring band topology, interaction-driven phases, and magnetic orders. We study the interaction-driven phases in twisted TMD homobilayers and their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-12 Taige Wang , Trithep Devakul , Michael P. Zaletel , Liang Fu

Moir\'e superlattices in van der Waals heterostructures have emerged as a powerful tool for engineering novel quantum phenomena. Here we report the observation of a correlated interlayer exciton insulator in a double-layer heterostructure…

Geometrical moir\'e patterns, generic for almost aligned bilayers of two-dimensional (2D) crystals with similar lattice structure but slightly different lattice constants, lead to zone folding and miniband formation for electronic states.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-01 David A. Ruiz-Tijerina , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

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

We develop a microscopic theory for nonlinear optical response of moir\'e exciton-polaritons in bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Our theory allows to study the tunnel-coupled intralayer and interlayer excitonic modes for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Kok Wee Song , Oleksandr Kyriienko

We investigate the moir\'e band structures and the strong correlation effects in twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ for a wide range of twist angles, employing a combination of various techniques. Using large-scale first principles calculations, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-04 Cheng Xu , Jiangxu Li , Yong Xu , Zhen Bi , Yang Zhang

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

Topological flat bands formed in two-dimensional lattice systems offer unique opportunity to study the fractional phases of matter in the absence of an external magnetic field. Celebrated examples include fractional quantum anomalous Hall…

Moir\'e superlattices in van der Waals heterostructures provide a tunable platform to study emergent properties that are absent in the natural crystal form. Twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TB-TMDs) can host moir\'e flat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-27 En Li , Jin-Xin Hu , Xuemeng Feng , Zishu Zhou , Liheng An , Kam Tuen Law , Ning Wang , Nian Lin

We introduce and study a realistic model for superconductivity in twisted bilayer WSe$_{2}$, where electron pairing arises from spin-valley fluctuations in the weak-coupling regime. Our model comprises both the full continuum model…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-26 Constantin Schrade , Liang Fu

While transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) based moire materials have been shown to host various correlated electronic phenomena, topological states have not been experimentally observed until now. In this work, using first principles…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-04 Yang Zhang , Trithep Devakul , Liang Fu

Interacting many-body systems combining confined and extended dimensions, such as ladders and few layer systems are characterized by enhanced quantum fluctuations, which often result in interesting collective properties. Recently…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-29 Annabelle Bohrdt , Lukas Homeier , Immanuel Bloch , Eugene Demler , Fabian Grusdt

Two-dimensional semiconducting moir\'e materials have emerged as a highly tunable platform for exploring novel quantum phenomena. Recently, tMoTe2 has attracted significant attentions due to the observation of the long-sought fractional…

Moir\'e related physics in twisted bilayer two-dimensional (2D) materials has attracted widespread interest in condensed matter physics. Simulation of moir\'e related physics in cold atom platform is expected to outperform the 2D materials…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-07-03 Jian-Hua Zeng , Qizhong Zhu , Liang He

Strong electron correlation and spin-orbit coupling (SOC) provide two non-trivial threads to condensed matter physics. When these two strands of physics come together, a plethora of quantum phenomena with novel topological order have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-26 Jiang-Xiazi Lin , Ya-Hui Zhang , Erin Morissette , Zhi Wang , Song Liu , Daniel Rhodes , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , James Hone , J. I. A. Li

The quest for platforms to generate and control exotic excitonic states has greatly benefited from the advent of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers and their heterostructures. Among the unconventional excitonic states,…

The possibility of "orbitally selective Mott transitions" within a multiband Hubbard model, in which one orbital with large on-site electron-electron repulsion $U_1$ is insulating and another orbital, to which it is hybridized, with small…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-15 Yuxi Zhang , Chunhan Feng , Rubem Mondaini , George G. Batrouni , Richard T. Scalettar

Moir\'e super-potentials in two-dimensional materials allow unprecedented control of the ratio between kinetic and interaction energy. By this, they pave the way to study a wide variety of strongly correlated physics under a new light. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-03 Amir Dalal , Jonathan Ruhman

Square lattice Hubbard models with tunable hopping ratio $t'/t$ are highly promising for realizing a variety of quantum phases and for shedding light on key puzzles in correlated quantum materials, including higher-temperature…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-17 P. Myles Eugenio , Zhu-Xi Luo , Ashvin Vishwanath , Pavel A. Volkov

Recent experimental progress has established the twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) as a highly tunable platform for studying many-body physics. Particularly, the homobilayer TMDs under displacement field are believed to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-14 Feng Chen , D. N. Sheng