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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

Moir\'e patterns with angular mismatch in van der Waals heterostructures composed of atomically thin semiconducting materials are a fascinating platform to engineer the optically generated excitonic properties towards novel quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-17 Keisuke Shinokita , Yuhei Miyauchi , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Kazunari Matsuda

It has been proposed that an extended version of the Hubbard model which potentially hosts rich correlated physics may be well simulated by the transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) moir\'{e} heterostructures. Motivated by recent reports of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-30 Yichen Xu , Xiao-Chuan Wu , Mengxing Ye , Zhu-Xi Luo , Chao-Ming Jian , Cenke Xu

Layered two-dimensional materials exhibit rich transport and optical phenomena in twisted or lattice-incommensurate heterostructures with spatial variations of interlayer hybridization arising from moir\'e interference effects. Here, we…

We study exciton energy spectrum and their propagation in moir\'e superlattices formed in transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers. In such structures, as a result of weak interlayer interaction, an effective, moir\'e, potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 A. M. Shentsev , M. M. Glazov

Transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers offer attractive opportunities to realize lattices of interacting bosons with several degrees of freedom. Such heterobilayers can feature moir\'e patterns that modulate their electronic band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-16 Mauro Brotons-Gisbert , Hyeonjun Baek , Aidan Campbell , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Brian D. Gerardot

We consider the dimer Hubbard model within Dynamical Mean Field Theory to study the interplay and competition between Mott and Peierls physics. We describe the various metal-insulator transition lines of the phase diagram and the break down…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-17 O. Nájera , M. Civelli , V. Dobrosavljević , M. J. Rozenberg

Motivated by recent experimental observations of opposite Chern numbers in $R$-type twisted MoTe$_2$ and WSe$_2$ homobilayers, we perform large-scale density-functional-theory (DFT) calculations with machine learning force fields to…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-21 Xiao-Wei Zhang , Chong Wang , Xiaoyu Liu , Yueyao Fan , Ting Cao , Di Xiao

Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) became one of the most studied nanostructures in the last decade. Combining two different TMDC monolayers results in a heterostructure whose properties can be individually tuned by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Marten Richter

We present a comprehensive dynamical mean field study of the triangular lattice moir\'e Hubbard model, which is believed to represent the physics of moir\'e bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides. In these materials, important aspects of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-28 Jiawei Zang , Jie Wang , Jennifer Cano , Antoine Georges , Andrew J. Millis

We theoretically investigate the corrections of exciton binding energy in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) due to the exciton-optical phonon coupling in the Fr$\ddot{o}$hlich interaction model by using the linear operator…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Zi-Wu Wang , Yao Xiao , Wei-Ping Li , Run-Ze Li , Zhi-Qing Li

Significant efforts have been dedicated to achieving excitonic insulators. In this paper, we explore a new problem of doping excitons into a Mott insulator instead of a band insulator. Specifically, we start with a Mott insulator on a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-16 Hui Yang , Ya-Hui Zhang

Two dimensional materials and their heterostructures constitute a promising platform to study correlated electronic states as well as many body physics of excitons. Here, we present experiments that unite these hitherto separate efforts and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-12 Yuya Shimazaki , Ido Schwartz , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Martin Kroner , Ataç Imamoğlu

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…

Excitons, Coulomb-bound electron-hole pairs, play a fundamental role in both optical excitation and correlated phenomena in solids. When an exciton interacts with other quasi-particles, few- and many-body excited states, such as trions,…

Electron-phonon-driven charge density waves can in some circumstances allow electronic correlations to become predominant, driving a system into a Mott insulating state. New insights into both the Mott state and preceding charge density…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-31 C. J. Butler , M. Yoshida , T. Hanaguri , Y. Iwasa

The electronic exciton polaron is a hypothetical many-body quasiparticle formed by an exciton dressed with a polarized electron-hole cloud in the Fermi sea (FS). It is predicted to display rich many-body physics and unusual roton-like…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 Erfu Liu , Jeremiah van Baren , Zhengguang Lu , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Dmitry Smirnov , Yia-Chung Chang , Chun Hung Lui

We explore the phase diagram of a twisted bilayer of strongly interacting electrons on a honeycomb lattice close to half-filling using the slave boson mean-field theory. Our analysis indicates that a variety of new phases can be realized as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-23 Ilia Komissarov , Onur Erten , Pouyan Ghaemi

A heterostructure of a semi-infinite metal and a Mott insulator is considered. It is supposed that both materials have an identical lattice spacing and hopping integrals and differ in the Hubbard repulsion which is negligible in the metal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Sherman , N. Voropajeva

Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) and their moir\'e interfaces have been demonstrated for correlated electron states, including Mott insulators and electron/hole crystals commensurate with moir\'e superlattices.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-08 Yusong Bai , Yiliu Li , Song Liu , Yinjie Guo , Jordan Pack , Jue Wang , Cory R. Dean , James Hone , X. -Y. Zhu