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Here we present a theory of mirror-symmetric magic angle twisted trilayer graphene. The electronic properties are described by a Hubbard model with long range tunneling matrix elements. The electronic properties are obtained by solving the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Alina Wania Rodrigues , Maciej Bieniek , Daniel Miravet , Pawel Hawrylak

When atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials are layered they often form incommensurate non-crystalline structures that exhibit long-period moir{\' e} patterns when examined by scanning probes. In this paper we present an approach…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-23 Jeil Jung , Arnaud Raoux , Zhenhua Qiao , Allan H. MacDonald

We study how well magnetic models can be implemented with ultracold bosonic atoms of two different hyperfine states in an optical superlattice. The system is captured by a two-species Bose-Hubbard model, but realizes in a certain parameter…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-07-28 Thomas Barthel , Christian Kasztelan , Ian P. McCulloch , Ulrich Schollwöck

Geometrically frustrated many-particle quantum systems are notoriously hard to study numerically but are of profound interest because of their unusual properties and emergent phenomena. In these systems energetic constraints cannot be…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-12-15 Jirayu Mongkolkiattichai , Liyu Liu , Davis Garwood , Jin Yang , Peter Schauss

We consider the one-orbital $N$-site repulsive Hubbard model on two kagome-like chains, both of which yield a completely dispersionless (flat) one-electron band. Using exact many-electron ground states in the subspaces with $n\le n_{\max}$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-12-13 O. Derzhko , M. Maksymenko , J. Richter , A. Honecker , R. Moessner

A periodic spatial modulation, as created by a moir\'e pattern, has been extensively studied with the view to engineer and tune the properties of graphene. Graphene encapsulated by hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) when slightly misaligned with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-31 M. Anđelković , S. P. Milovanović , L. Covaci , F. M. Peeters

Exotic collective phenomena emerge when bosons strongly interact within a lattice. However, creating a robust and tunable solid-state platform to explore such phenomena has been elusive. Dual moir\'e systems$-$compromising two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Amine Ben Mhenni , Elif Çetiner , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jonathan J. Finley , Nathan P. Wilson

Quantum magnetic properties in a geometrically frustrated lattice of spin-1/2 magnet, such as quantum spin liquid or solid and the associated spin fractionalization, are considered key in developing a new phase of matter. The feasibility of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-21 J. Gunasekera , A. Dahal , Y. Chen , J. Rodriguez , L. Harriger , S. Thomas , T. Heitmann , V. Dugaev , A. Ernst , D. K. Singh

We investigate the physics of photonic band structures of the moir\'e patterns that emerged when overlapping two uni-dimensional (1D) photonic crystal slabs with mismatched periods. The band structure of our system is a result of the…

We use a high-temperature expansion to explore spin correlations around a single hole in a two- dimensional lattice filled with a hard-core two component bose gas. We find that the spins around the hole develop ferromagnetic order and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-04-18 Yariv Yanay , Erich Mueller , Veit Elser

We present a systematic framework to construct model Hamiltonians that have unconventional superconducting pairing states as exact energy eigenstates, by incorporating multibody interactions (i.e., interactions among more than two…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-22 Shohei Imai , Naoto Tsuji

Novel superconducting phases have been found in various moir\'e heterostructures based on hexagonal lattices. However, the archetypal high-temperature superconductors (cuprates, iron-based and nickelate families) all share a square lattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-13 Toshikaze Kariyado , Yusuf Wicaksono , Ashvin Vishwanath , Pavel Volkov , Zhu-Xi Luo

We develop a structured theoretical framework used in our recent articles [Eur. Phys. J. B 92, 93 (2019) and Phys. Rev. B 101, 094427 (2020)] to characterize the unusual behavior of the magnetic spectrum, magnetization and magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-19 M. Georgiev , H. Chamati

Recent experiments have established that semiconductor-based moir\'e materials can host incompressible states at a series of fractional moir\'e-miniband fillings. These states have been identified as generalized Wigner crystals in which…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-21 Nicolás Morales-Durán , Pawel Potasz , Allan H. MacDonald

We present several interesting phenomena related to flatband ferromagnetism in the Hubbard model. The first is a mathematical theorem stating certain conditions under which a flatband ferromagnetic must necessarily be degenerate with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-24 Donovan Buterakos , Sankar Das Sarma

Understanding quantum many-body systems is at the heart of condensed matter physics. The ability to control the underlying lattice geometry of a system, and thus its many-body interactions, would enable the realization of and transition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Eric Anderson , Feng-Ren Fan , Jiaqi Cai , William Holtzmann , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Di Xiao , Wang Yao , Xiaodong Xu

The magnetocaloric effect is studied at the transition to saturation in the antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 Heisenberg model on the simplest two-dimensional lattices, namely the square and the triangular lattice. Numerical results are presented…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Honecker , S. Wessel

The kagome-lattice Hubbard model attracts widespread interest due to its flat-band and Van Hove singularity features, which can give rise to unconventional magnetism. We employ determinant quantum Monte Carlo simulations to systematically…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-03 Jingyao Wang , Zixuan Jia , Zenghui Fan , Qingzhuo Duan , Tianxing Ma

Detecting magnetic order at the nanoscale is of central interest for the study of quantum magnetism in general, and the emerging field of moir\'e magnets in particular. Here, we analyze the exciton band structure that arises from a periodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-18 Alex Gómez Salvador , Clemens Kuhlenkamp , Livio Ciorciaro , Michael Knap , Ataç İmamoğlu

The noninteracting electronic structures of tight binding models on bipartite lattices with unequal numbers of sites in the two sublattices have a number of unique features, including the presence of spatially localized eigenstates and flat…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-13 Natanael C. Costa , Tiago Mendes-Santos , Thereza Paiva , Raimundo R. dos Santos , Richard T. Scalettar