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The combination of magnetism and topological properties in one material platform is attracting significant attention due to the potential of realizing low power consumption and error-robust electronic devices. Common practice is to start…

The discovery of topological phases of matter and topological boundary states had tremendous impact on condensed matter physics and photonics, where topological phases are defined via energy bands, giving rise to topological band theory.…

Large scale two-dimensional (2D) moir\'e superlattices are driving a revolution in designer quantum materials. The electronic interactions in these superlattices, strongly dependent on the periodicity and symmetry of the moir\'e pattern,…

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Topological flat bands at the Fermi level offer a promising platform to study a variety of intriguing correlated phase of matter. Here we present band engineering in the twisted orbital-active bilayers with spin-orbit coupling. The symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-15 Huan Wang , Yadong Jiang , Zhaochen Liu , Jing Wang

Designing topological materials with specific topological indices is a complex inverse problem, traditionally tackled through manual, intuition-driven methods that are neither scalable nor efficient for exploring the vast space of possible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Samuel Bird , Chiara Devescovi , Pascal Engeler , Agnes Valenti , Doruk Efe Gökmen , Robin Worreby , Valerio Peri , Sebastian D. Huber

Twisted bilayer graphene aligned with hexagonal boron nitride (TBG/hBN) hosts rich topological and correlated quantum phases, such as (fractional) Chern insulators, whose character is dictated by the topology of the moir\'{e} flat band.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-01 Huiwen Wang , Wei Jiang

Using machine learning methods, we explore different types of domain walls in the recently unveiled single-element ferroelectric, the bismuth monolayer [Nature 617, 67 (2023)]. Remarkably, our investigation reveals that the charged domain…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-04 Wei Luo , Yang Zhong , Hongyu Yu , Muting Xie , Yingwei Chen , Hongjun Xiang , Laurent Bellaiche

Topology, a mathematical concept, has recently become a popular and truly transdisciplinary topic encompassing condensed matter physics, solid state chemistry, and materials science. Since there is a direct connection between real space,…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-23 Nitesh Kumar , Satya N. Guin , Kaustuv Manna , Chandra Shekhar , Claudia Felser

It is shown on the examples of Moore and Gosper curves that two spatially shifted or twisted, pre-asymptotic space-filling curves can produce large-scale superstructures akin to moir\'e patterns. To study physical phenomena emerging from…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Henning U. Voss , Douglas J. Ballon

In this paper, we propose a new type of bulk-boundary correspondence as a generic approach to theoretically and experimentally detect fragile topological states. When the fragile phase can be written as a difference of a trivial atomic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Zhi-Da Song , Luis Elcoro , B. Andrei Bernevig

A number of topological phases are found to emerge in the ferromagnetic Kitaev-Heisenberg model on CaVO lattice in the presence of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. Heisenberg and Kitaev terms have been considered on nearest and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-05 Moumita Deb , Asim Kumar Ghosh

Topology describes properties of physical systems that remain constant under continuous deformations. For infinite vector waves, global topological invariants in position space are typically associated with periodic patterns. We demonstrate…

In twisted transition metal dichalcogenides (tTMDs), atomic reconstruction gives rise to moir\'e domains with alternating ferroelectric polarization, whose domain size and overall electric dipole moment are tunable by an out-of-plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Wei Ren , Shiyu Guo , Daochen Long , Noah Friedman , Jingyuan Xian , David Li , Jack Tavakley , Jeongsoo Park , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ke Wang

We investigate the interplay between disorder and superconducting pairing for a one-dimensional $p$-wave superconductor subject to slowly varying incommensurate potentials with mobility edges. With amplitude increments of the incommensurate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-12-12 Tong Liu , Hai-Yang Yan , Hao Guo

Materials with long-range order like ferromagnetism or ferroelectricity exhibit uniform, yet differently oriented three-dimensional regions called domains that are separated by two-dimensional topological defects termed domain…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-13 E. Hassanpour , M. C. Weber , A. Bortis , Y. Tokunaga , Y. Taguchi , Y. Tokura , A. Cano , Th. Lottermoser , M. Fiebig

We investigate the domain wall network in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) under the influence of interlayer bias and screening effect from the layered structure. Starting from the continuum model, we analyze the low-energy domain wall modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-22 Hao-Chien Wang , Chen-Hsuan Hsu

A variety of novel quantum phases have been achieved in twist bilayer graphene (tBLG) and other moire superlattices recently, including correlated insulators, superconductivity, magnetism, and topological states. These phenomena are very…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-22 Chunlong Wu , Qiang Wan , Cao Peng , Shangkun Mo , Renzhe Li , Keming Zhao , Yanping Guo , Shengjun Yuan , Fengcheng Wu , Chendong Zhang , Nan Xu

We give a self-contained and enriched review about topology properties in the rapidly growing field of topological states of matter (TSM). This review is mainly focus on the beautiful interplay of topology mathematics and condensed matter…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 Chunbo Zhao

Active matter encompasses different nonequilibrium systems in which individual constituents convert energy into non-conservative forces or motion at the microscale. This review provides an elementary introduction to the role of topology in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-28 Suraj Shankar , Anton Souslov , Mark J. Bowick , M. Cristina Marchetti , Vincenzo Vitelli

Twisted heterostructures of van der Waals materials have received much attention for their many remarkable properties. Here, we present a comprehensive theory of the long-range ordered magnetic phases of twisted bilayer $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-20 Muhammad Akram , Jesse Kapeghian , Jyotirish Das , Roser Valenti , Antia S. Botana , Onur Erten