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Moire superlattices in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) and its derived structures can host exotic correlated quantum phenomena because the narrow moire flat minibands in those systems effectively enhance the electron-electron interaction.…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-18 Qiaoling Xu , Yuzheng Guo , Lede Xian

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

In superlattices of twisted semiconductor monolayers, tunable moir\'e potentials emerge, trapping excitons into periodic arrays. In particular, spatially separated interlayer excitons are subject to a deep potential landscape and they…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-02 Samuel Brem , Ermin Malic

We apply a multiscale modeling approach to study lattice reconstruction in marginally twisted bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD). For this, we develop DFT-parametrized interpolation formulae for interlayer adhesion energies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-21 V. V. Enaldiev , V. Zólyomi , C. Yelgel , S. J. Magorrian , V. I. Fal'ko

Moir\'e superlattices have emerged as a new platform for studying strongly correlated quantum phenomena, but these systems have been largely limited to van der Waals layer two-dimensional (2D) materials. Here we introduce moir\'e…

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) usually exist in two or more structural phases with different physical properties, and can be repeatedly switched between these phases via different stimuli, making them potentially…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-29 Priyanka Manchanda , Pankaj Kumar , Pratibha Dev

Moir\'e superlattices provide a compelling platform for exploring exotic correlated physics. Electronic interference within these systems often results in flat bands with localized electrons, which are typically described by effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Xianliang Zhou , Yifan Gao , Laiyuan Su , Z. F. Wang , Li Huang , Angel Rubio , Zhiwen Shi , Lede Xian

Recently, moir\'e superlattices have been found on the surface of topological insulators (TI) due to the rotational misalignment of topmost layers. In this work, we study the effects of moir\'e superlattices on the topological surface…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-05-03 Taige Wang , Noah F. Q. Yuan , Liang Fu

The predicted formation of moire superlattices leading to confined excitonic states in heterostructures formed by stacking two lattice mismatched transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers was recently experimentally confirmed. Such…

Moir\'e superlattices can induce correlated-electronic phases in twisted van-der-Waals materials. Strongly correlated quantum phenomena emerge, such as superconductivity and the Mott-insulating state. However, moir\'e superlattices produced…

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…

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

This work presents a first-principles study of the optoelectronic properties of vertically-stacked bilayer heterostructures composed of 2D transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). The calculations are performed using the density-functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-15 Khushboo Dange , Rachana Yogi , Alok Shukla

Moir\'{e} superlattices in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) heterobilayers exhibit various correlated insulating states driven by long-range Coulomb interactions, and these states crucially alter exciton resonances, particularly at…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-04 Junghwan Kim , Dinh Van Tuan , Hanan Dery

Strong evidence of unconventional superconductivity has been very recently reported experimentally in twisted transition metal dichalcogenide bilayer and gathered a significant amount of interest. Here we consider the Hubbard model on a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-29 Andrzej Biborski , Michał Zegrodnik

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 transition metal dichalcogenides have emerged as important model systems for the investigation of correlated electron physics because their interaction strength, carrier concentration, band structure, and inversion symmetry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-01 Jiawei Zang , Jie Wang , Jennifer Cano , Andrew J. Millis

The valence band edge in tiny angle twist bilayers of MoS$_2$ and phosphorene is shown to consist of highly localized energy levels created by a `moir\'e quantum well', i.e. trapped by the interlayer moir\'e potential. These approximately…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 M. Fleischmann , R. Gupta , S. Sharma , S. Shallcross

The engineering of superlattices in two-dimensional van der Waals materials has enabled the realization of rich phase diagrams hosting topological and strongly correlated phases. While incommensurability is widespread in three-dimensional…

We reveal by first-principles calculations that the interlayer binding in a twisted MoS2/MoTe2 heterobilayer decreases with increasing twist angle, due to the increase of the interlayer overlapping degree, a geometric quantity describing…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-07 W. T. Geng , V. Wang , J. B. Lin , T. Ohno , J. Nara