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Multiferroic materials with coupled ferroelectric and ferromagnetic properties are important for multifunctional devices due to their potential ability of controlling magnetism via electric field, and vice versa. The recent discoveries of…

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According to the recent studies on sliding/moire ferroelectricity, most 2D van der Waals nonferroelectric monolayers can become ferroelectric via multilayer stacking. In this paper we propose that similar strategy can be used to induce…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-24 Yuxuan Sheng , Junwei Liu , Jia Zhang , Menghao Wu

We propose ferroelectric layer sliding as a new approach to realize and manipulate topological quantum states in two-dimensional (2D) bilayer magnetic van der Waals materials. We show that stacking monolayer ferromagnetic topological states…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-13 Ning-Jing Yang , Jian-Min Zhang , Xiao-Ping Li , Zeying Zhang , Zhi-Ming Yu , Zhigao Huang , Yugui Yao

Although multiferroics have undergone extensive examination for several decades, the occurrence of ferroelectricity induced by orbital order is only scarcely documented. In this study, we propose the existence of spontaneous ferroelectric…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-07 Xiao-Feng Luo , Xu He , Rui Wang , Hongjun Xiang , Jin-Zhu Zhao

Magnetic van der Waals (vdW) materials offer a fantastic platform to investigate and exploit rich spin configurations stabilized in reduced dimensions. One tantalizing magnetic order is the interlayer antiferromagnetism in A-type vdW…

The interfacial coupling between electrons and magnons in adjacent layers can mediate an attractive electron-electron interaction and induce superconductivity. We consider magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene sandwiched between two…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-20 Bjørnulf Brekke , Asle Sudbø , Arne Brataas

Two-dimensional (2D) materials are being explored as a novel multiferroic platform. One of the most studied magnetoelectric multiferroic 2D materials are antiferromagnetically-coupled (AFM) CrI$_3$ bilayers. Neglecting magnetism, those…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-16 Shiva P. Poudel , Juan M. Marmolejo-Tejada , Joseph E. Roll , Martín A. Mosquera , Salvador Barraza-Lopez

Motivated by the recent experimental developments in van der Waals heterostructures, we investigate the emergent magnetism in Mott insulator - semimetal moir\'e superlattices by deriving effective spin models and exploring their phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-05 M. A. Keskiner , Pouyan Ghaemi , M. Ö. Oktel , Onur Erten

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

Layered antiferromagnetism is the spatial arrangement of ferromagnetic layers with antiferromagnetic interlayer coupling. Recently, the van der Waals magnet, chromium triiodide (CrI3), emerged as the first layered antiferromagnetic…

We conduct a comprehensive study of three different magnetic semiconductors, CrI$_3$, CrBr$_3$, and CrCl$_3$, by incorporating both few- and bi-layer samples in van der Waals tunnel junctions. We find that the interlayer magnetic ordering,…

We present a computational search for spin spiral ground states in two-dimensional transition metal halides that are experimentally known as van der Waals bonded bulk materials. Such spin spirals break the rotational symmetry of the lattice…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-14 Joachim Sødequist , Thomas Olsen

Twisted van der Waals heterostructures with flat electronic bands have recently emerged as a platform for realizing correlated and topological states with an extraordinary degree of control and tunability. In graphene-based moir\'e…

Two dimensional moir\'e systems have recently emerged as a platform in which the interplay between topology and strong correlations of electrons play out in non-trivial ways. Among these systems, twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG) is of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-03 Debasmita Giri , Dibya Kanti Mukherjee , H. A. Fertig , Arijit Kundu

The emerging field of twistronics, which harnesses the twist angle between two-dimensional materials, represents a promising route for the design of quantum materials, as the twist-angle-induced superlattices offer means to control topology…

Magnetic spin topological textures recently found their electrical counterparts in polar topologies emerging from the condensation of inhomogeneous polar atomic distortions. Here, we further extend the concept to other non-polar atomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-10 Fernando Gómez-Ortiz , Louis Bastogne , Philippe Ghosez

Recently, three different magnetic states were observed experimentally in trilayer CrI3 under pressure,including ferromagnetic (FM)-upupup, FM-downupdown and FM-upupdown. To reveal the nature of the observed three magnetic states, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-08 Zhen Zhang , Jing-Yang You , Bo Gu , Gang Su

Fabricating van der Waals (vdW) bilayer heterostructures (BL-HS) by stacking the same or different two-dimensional (2D) layers, offers a unique physical system with rich electronic and optical properties. Twist-angle between component…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-17 Kha Tran , Junho Choi , Akshay Singh

Interlayer stacking order has recently emerged as a unique degree of freedom to control crystal symmetry and physical properties in two-dimensional van der Waals (vdW) materials and heterostructures. By tuning the layer stacking pattern,…

Moir\'e materials have become one of the most active fields in material science in recent years due to their high tunability, and their unique properties emerge from the Moir\'e-scale structure modulation. Here, we propose twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-17 Ikuma Tateishi , Motoaki Hirayama