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Twisted bilayer structures have emerged as a fascinating arena in condensed matter thanks to their highly tunable physics. The role of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in twisted bilayers has gained increasing attention due to its potential for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-25 Ludovica Zullo , Domenico Ninno , Giovanni Cantele

We show that bilayer graphene in the presence of a 2D superlattice potential provides a highly tunable setup that can realize a variety of flat band phenomena. We focus on two regimes: (i) topological flat bands with non-zero Chern numbers,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Aaron Dunbrack , Ahmed Abouelkomsan , Jiacheng Sun , Xu Du , Jennifer Cano

The low symmetry and anistropic lattice of 1T$'$ WTe$_2$ is responsible for the existence of parallel one-dimensional channels in the moir\'e patterns of twisted bilayers. This gives the opportunity to explore moir\'e physics of a different…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-11 Samuel J. Magorrian , Nicholas D. M. Hine

Motivated by the strong-correlation phenomenology observed near the superconducting phase in twisted bilayer WSe$_2$, we study multi-orbital $t$-$J$ models that are derived from different parameter regimes. The models contain effective…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-29 Chenyuan Li , Fang Xie , Jennifer Cano , Qimiao Si

The discovery of superconductivity and correlated electronic phases in twisted bilayer WSe$_2$ (Xia et al., Nature 2024; Guo et al., Nature 2025) has generated considerable excitement. Accompanying the superconductivity and a correlated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-28 Fang Xie , Chenyuan Li , Jennifer Cano , Qimiao Si

Flat electronic bands, which amplify electron correlations by quenching kinetic energy, provide an ideal foundation for exotic quantum phases. However, prevailing strategies -- including geometrically frustrated lattices, moire…

Electronic correlation effects are manifested in quantum materials when either the onsite Coulomb repulsion is large or the electron kinetic energy is small. The former is the dominant effect in the cuprate superconductors or heavy fermion…

Studies of twisted moir\'e systems have been mainly focused on two-dimensional (2D) materials such as graphene with Dirac points and transition-metal-dichalcogenide so far. Here we propose a twisted bilayer of 2D systems which feature…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-27 Ming-Rui Li , Ai-Lei He , Hong Yao

Motivated by the recent theoretical studies on a two-dimensional (2D) chiral Hamiltonian based on the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chains, we experimentally and computationally demonstrate that topological flat frequency bands can occur at open…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Kai Qian , Linghua Zhu , Keun Hyuk Ahn , Camelia Prodan

Recently, artificial moire superlattices of classical waves have aroused tremendous interest, inspired by the newly emergent twistronics that focuses on the peculiar electronic properties induced by flat bands. However, so far, the moire…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-28 Tingzhi Liu , Xingjian Zhang , Qicheng Zhang , Xiying Fan , Fengcheng Wu , Chunyin Qiu

Motivated by recent experiments demonstrating the creation of atomically sharp interfaces between hexagonal sapphire and cubic SrTiO$_3$ with finite twist, we here develop and study a general electronic band theory for this novel class of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-18 Bernhard Putzer , Lucas V. Pupim , Mathias S. Scheurer

We investigate electronic and transport properties of bismuth (111) bilayer in the context of stability of its topological properties against different perturbations. The effects of spin-orbit coupling variations, geometry relaxation and an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-05 M. Bieniek , T. Wozniak , P. Potasz

Motivated by the discovery of quasi-two-dimensional kagome metals AV$_3$Sb$_5$, we consider the theory of twisted bilayers in which the Fermi surface is near the $M$-point. Surprisingly, unlike twisted bilayers of graphene or transition…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-18 Julian Ingham , Mathias S. Scheurer , Harley D. Scammell

Twisted multilayers of two-dimensional (2D) materials are an increasingly important platform for investigating quantum phases of matter, and in particular, strongly correlated electrons. The moir\'e pattern introduced by the relative twist…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-11 Mattia Angeli , Gabriel R. Schleder , Efthimios Kaxiras

Conventional theories for Mott insulators involve well-localized electronic orbitals. This picture fails in the presence of topological obstructions in Chern bands which prevent the formation of exponentially localized orbitals and are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-24 Brandon Monsen , Martin Claassen

Recent theory and experiment have revealed that strong spin-orbit coupling can have dramatic qualitative effects on the band structure of weakly interacting solids. Indeed, it leads to a distinct phase of matter, the topological band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 D. A. Pesin , Leon Balents

Since the inception of moir\'e quantum matter, a foundational tenet of the field has been that the quantum geometry of emergent flat bands is faithfully inherited from the low-energy valleys of the constituent monolayers. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Yi-Chun Hung , Xiaoting Zhou , Arun Bansil

Twisted graphene moire superlattice has been demonstrated as an exotic platform for investigating correlated states and nontrivial topology. Among the moire family, twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG) is a tunable flat band system…

Two-dimensional electronic flat bands and their induced correlated electronic interactions have been discovered, probed, and tuned in interlayer regions of hexagonally shaped van der Waals moire superlattices. Fabrication of anisotropic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Yafei Li , Qing Yuan , Deping Guo , Cancan Lou , Xingxia Cui , Guangqiang Mei , Hrvoje Petek , Limin Cao , Wei Ji , Min Feng

We propose a new route to induce flat bands with a strong superconducting instability in graphene bilayers with heteroshear, where the 1D character of the moir\'e leads to stronger correlations than in twisted bilayer graphene. We adopt an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Jose Gonzalez , Tobias Stauber
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