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Heterostructures of layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) host long-lived, tunable excitons, making them intriguing candidates for material-based quantum information applications. Light absorption in these systems induces a…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-25 Tomer Amit , Sivan Refaely-Abramson

Twisted atomically thin semiconductors are characterized by moir\'{e} excitons. Their optical signatures and selection rules are well understood. However, their hybridization with photons in the strong coupling regime for heterostructures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Jamie M. Fitzgerald , Joshua J. P. Thompson , Ermin Malic

Mechanisms of Mott transitions and dx2-y2-wave superconductivity (SC) are studied in the half-filled-band Hubbard model on square lattices with a diagonal hopping term (t'), using an optimization (or correlated) variational Monte Carlo…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Hisatoshi Yokoyama , Masao Ogata , Yukio Tanaka

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayers are a new class of tunable moir\'e systems attracting interest as quantum simulators of strongly-interacting electrons in two dimensions. In particular, recent theory predicts that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-01 Kevin Slagle , Liang Fu

The impressive physics and applications of intra- and interlayer excitons in a transition metal dichalcogenide twisted-bilayer make these systems compelling platforms for exploring the manipulation of their optoelectronic properties through…

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterobilayers provide a versatile platform to explore unique excitonic physics via properties of the constituent TMDs and external stimuli. Interlayer excitons (IXs) can form in TMD heterobilayers as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-02 Hanlin Fang , Qiaoling Lin , Yi Zhang , Joshua Thompson , Sanshui Xiao , Zhipei Sun , Ermin Malic , Saroj Dash , Witlef Wieczorek

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayers with an interlayer twist exhibit a moire super-period, whose effects can manifest in both structural and electronic properties. Atomic displacements can lead to reconstruction into domains of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-23 Madeleine Phillips , C. Stephen Hellberg

Collective quantum phenomena, such as the excitation of composite fermions1, spin waves2, and exciton condensation3,4, can emerge in strongly correlated systems like the fractional quantum Hall states5, spin liquids6, or excitonic…

Moir\'e transition metal dichalcogenides have served as a versatile platform for simulating Hubbard physics. Recent experiments have identified robust superconductivity in moir\'e bilayer WSe$_2$ for certain twist angles. Here, we propose…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-19 Hui-Ke Jin , Guangyue Ji , Zhan Wang , Jie Wang , Fu-Chun Zhang

In twisted bilayer graphene, long-wavelength lattice fluctuations on the scale of the moir\'e period are dominated by phason modes, i.e., acoustic branches of the incommensurate lattice resulting from coherent superpositions of optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-30 Héctor Ochoa

Strong electron-electron interaction can induce Mott insulating state, which is believed to host unusual correlated phenomena such as quantum spin liquid when quantum fluctuation dominates and unconventional superconductivity through…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-24 Qiang Gao , Haiyang Chen , Wen-shin Lu , Yang-hao Chan , Zhenhua Chen , Yaobo Huang , Zhengtai Liu , Peng Chen

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayers have recently emerged as a robust and tunable moir\'e system for studying and designing correlated electron physics. In this work, by combining large-scale first principle calculation and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-30 Yang Zhang , Noah F. Q. Yuan , Liang Fu

We consider dressing of excitonic properties by strongly correlated electrons in gate controlled twisted homo-bilayer heterostructures. The combined effect of the moir\'e potential and the Coulomb interaction supports the formation of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-16 Giacomo Mazza , Adriano Amaricci

We studied the possibility of exciton condensation in Mott insulating bilayers. In these strongly correlated systems an exciton is the bound state of a double occupied and empty site. In the strong coupling limit the exciton acts as a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-01-01 Louk Rademaker , Jeroen van den Brink , Jan Zaanen , Hans Hilgenkamp

Structural engineering of van der Waals heterostructures via stacking and twisting has recently been used to create moir\'e superlattices, enabling the realization of new optical and electronic properties in solid-state systems. In…

A half-filled-band Hubbard model on an anisotropic triangular lattice (t in two bond directions and t' in the other) is studied using an optimization variational Monte Carlo method, to consider the Mott transition and superconductivity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Tsutomu Watanabe , Hisatoshi Yokoyama , Yukio Tanaka , Jun-ichiro Inoue

Excitons, composite electron-hole quasiparticles, are known to play an important role in optoelectronic phenomena in many semiconducting materials. Recent experiments and theory indicate that the band-gap optics of the newly discovered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 Yuri N. Gartstein , Xiao Li , Chuanwei Zhang

Collective plasma excitations in moir\'e flat bands display unique properties reflecting strong electron-electron interactions and unusual carrier dynamics in these systems. Unlike the conventional two-dimensional plasmon modes, dispersing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-06 Ali Fahimniya , Cyprian Lewandowski , Leonid Levitov

Twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides, such as MoTe$_2$, provide a versatile platform for exploring correlated topological phases. This work investigates the interplay of perpendicular magnetic and electric fields in tuning the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-27 Tianhong Lu , Yi-Ming Wu , Luiz H. Santos

Two-dimensional Mott insulators host antiferromagnetic (AFM) correlations that are predicted to enhance the attractive interaction between empty (holons) and doubly occupied (doublons) sites, creating a novel pathway for exciton formation.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-12 Omar Mehio , Yuchen Han , Xinwei Li , Honglie Ning , Zach Porter , Stephen D. Wilson , David Hsieh