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Moir\'e superlattices created by stacking atomic layers of transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors have emerged as a class of fascinating artificial photonic and electronic materials. An appealing attribute of these structures is the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Yueh-Chun Wu , Matthew DeCapua , ZhongChen Xu , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , YouGuo Shi , Jun Yan

Moir\'e heterobilayers exhibiting spatially varying band alignment and electron and hole localization that can be precisely controlled through the twist angle have emerged as exciting platforms for studying complex quantum phenomena. While…

Twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) has emerged as a promising platform to explore exotic electronic phases. However, the formation of moir\'e patterns in tBLG has thus far been confined to the introduction of twist angles between the layers.…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-10 Gabriel R. Schleder , Michele Pizzochero , Efthimios Kaxiras

The moir\'e superlattice system provides an excellent platform for exploring various novel quantum phenomena. To theoretically tackle the diverse correlated and topological states emerging from moir\'e superlattices, one usually adopts an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Bo Xie , Jianqi Huang , Jianpeng Liu

This review synthesizes recent advancements in the study of moir\'e magnetism. This emerging field, at the intersection of twistronics, topology, and strongly correlated systems, explores novel phenomena that arise when moir\'e potentials…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-06 Paula Mellado

Moir\'e superlattices formed by vertically stacking van der Waals layers host a rich variety of correlated electronic phases and function as novel photonic materials. The moir\'e potential of the superlattice, however, is fixed by the…

Twisted bilayer graphene exhibits electronic properties that are highly correlated with the size and arrangement of moir\'e patterns. While rigid rotation of two layers creates the topology of moir\'e patterns, local rearrangements of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-18 Aditya Dey , Shoieb Ahmed Chowdhury , Tara Peña , Sobhit Singh , Stephen M. Wu , Hesam Askari

In twisted van der Waals materials, local atomic relaxation can alter the underlying electronic structure. Characterizing lattice reconstruction and its susceptibility to strain is essential for understanding emergent electronic states,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Jesse C. Hoke , Yifan Li , Yuwen Hu , Julian May-Mann , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Trithep Devakul , Benjamin E. Feldman

Motivated by the recent experiments on van der Waals heterostructures involving metallic and Mott insulating layers, we construct a moir\'e extension of the Kondo-Heisenberg model and study its phase diagram via Abrikosov fermion mean field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-13 Jyotirish Das , Onur Erten

Spatial phase inhomogeneity at the nano- to microscale is widely observed in strongly-correlated electron materials. The underlying mechanism and possibility of artificially controlling the phase inhomogeneity are still open questions of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Cao , E. Ertekin , V. Srinivasan , W. Fan , S. Huang , H. Zheng , J. W. L. Yim , D. R. Khanal , D. F. Ogletree , J. C. Grossman , J. Wu

Moir\'e superlattices in twisted bilayers enable profound reconstructions of the electronic bandstructure, giving rise to correlated states with remarkable tunability. Extending this paradigm to van der Waals magnets, twisting creates…

Recent experimental progresses have demonstrated the great potential of electronic and excitonic moir\'e superlattices in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) for quantum many-body simulations and quantum optics applications. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-22 Qingjun Tong , Mingxing Chen , Feiping Xiao , Hongyi Yu , Wang Yao

Moir\'e superlattices of van der Waals heterostructures provide a powerful new way to engineer the electronic structures of two-dimensional (2D) materials. Many novel quantum phenomena have emerged in different moir\'e heterostructures,…

Photonic analogs of the moir\'e superlattices mediated by interlayer electromagnetic coupling are expected to give rise to rich phenomena such as nontrivial flatband topology. Here, we propose and demonstrate a scheme to tune the flatbands…

Optics · Physics 2023-09-29 Peilong Hong , Yi Liang , Zhigang Chen , Guoquan Zhang

Interactions between stacked two-dimensional (2D) atomic crystals can radically change their properties, leading to essentially new materials in terms of the electronic structure. Here we show that monolayers placed on an atomically flat…

Recent advances in twistronics of low-dimensional materials, such as bilayer graphene and transition-metal dichalcogenides, have enabled a plethora of unusual phenomena associated with moir\'e physics. However, several of these effects…

Optics · Physics 2020-05-18 Guangwei Hu , Alex Krasnok , Yarden Mazor , Cheng-Wei Qiu , Andrea Alù

Quasicrystals represent a category of rarely structured solids that challenge traditional periodicity in crystal materials. Recent advancements in the synthesis of two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals materials have paved the way for…

Moire materials, created by lattice-mismatch or/and twist-angle, have spurred great interest in excavating novel quantum phases of matter. Latterly, emergent interfacial ferroelectricity has been surprisingly found in spatial inversion…

The creation of moir\'e patterns in crystalline solids is a powerful approach to manipulate their electronic properties, which are fundamentally influenced by periodic potential landscapes. In 2D materials, a moir\'e pattern with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Kyle L. Seyler , Pasqual Rivera , Hongyi Yu , Nathan P. Wilson , Essance L. Ray , David Mandrus , Jiaqiang Yan , Wang Yao , Xiaodong Xu

Cooper-pair density modulation (CPDM) states are superconducting phases in which the order parameter varies periodically in real space without breaking translational symmetry. Recently, moire superlattices in layered materials have emerged…