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The rich physics of magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) results from the Coulomb interactions of electrons in flat bands of non-trivial topology. While the bands' dispersion is well characterized, accessing their topology remains an…

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Results are presented for the occupation probabilities and current densities of bulk and edge states of half-filled graphene in a cylindrical geometry, and irradiated by a circularly polarized laser. It is assumed that the system is closed,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Hossein Dehghani , Aditi Mitra

This theoretical work is devoted to investigating laser-irradiated Floquet topological magnon insulators on a two-dimensional checkerboard ferromagnet and corresponding topological phase transitions. It is shown that the checkerboard…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-08-31 Zhiqin Zhang , Wenhui Feng , Yingbo Yao , Bing Tang

We experimentally investigate the stability of a quantum gas with repulsive interactions in an optical 1D lattice subjected to periodic driving. Excitations of the gas in the lowest lattice band are analyzed across the complete stability…

Topological materials, known for their edge states robust against local perturbations, hold promise for next-generation quantum technologies, but remain scarce in nature and challenging to realize in static systems. The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger…

We study how fermions in molybdenum disulfide MoS$_2$ interact with a laser field and a static potential barrier, focusing on the transmission probability. Our aim is to understand and control photon-assisted quantum transport in this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Rachid El Aitouni , Aotmane En Naciri , Clarence Cortes , David Laroze , Ahmed Jellal

Optical conductivity measurements may provide access to distinct signatures of Floquet electronic phases, which are described theoretically by their quasienergy band structures. We characterize experimental observables of the Floquet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-27 Andrew Cupo , Joshuah T. Heath , Emilio Cobanera , James D. Whitfield , Chandrasekhar Ramanathan , Lorenza Viola

When twisted to angles near 1{\deg}, graphene multilayers provide a new window on electron correlation physics by hosting gate-tuneable strongly-correlated states, including insulators, superconductors, and unusual magnets. Here we report…

The theoretical analysis of topological insulators (TIs) has been traditionally focused on infinite homogeneous crystals with band gap in the bulk and nontrivial topology of their wavefunctions, or infinite wires whose boundaries host…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-21 Utkarsh Bajpai , Mark J. H. Ku , Branislav K. Nikolic

Dynamical control of Berry curvature remains an outstanding challenge in the engineering of topological phases. Here, we demonstrate control of magnon band structures via coherently driven phonons, based on \textit{ab initio} spin-lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Markus Weißenhofer , Philipp Rieger , Chandan K. Singh , M. S. Mrudul , Sergiy Mankovsky , Peter M. Oppeneer

Moir\'e superlattices have emerged as a versatile platform for exploring a wide range of ex- otic quantum phenomena. Unlike angstrom-scale materials, the moir\'e length-scale system contains a large number of atoms, and its electronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-10 Xueheng Kuang , Federico Escudero , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Francisco Guinea , Zhen Zhan

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) is a recently discovered two-dimensional superlattice structure which exhibits strongly-correlated quantum many-body physics, including strange metallic behavior and unconventional superconductivity. Most of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Cunyuan Jiang , Matteo Baggioli , Qing-Dong Jiang

The field of topological photonics studies unique and robust photonic systems that are immune to defects and disorders due to the protection of their underlying topological phases. Mostly implemented in static systems, the studied…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-20 Jicheng Jin , Li He , Jian Lu , Lin Chang , Chen Shang , John E. Bowers , Eugene J. Mele , Bo Zhen

Due to its incommensurate nature, moir\'e superlattices host not only acoustic phonons but also another type of soft collective modes called phasons. Here, we investigate the impact of electron-phason scattering on the transport properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Héctor Ochoa , Rafael M. Fernandes

The edge physics of graphene based systems is well known to be highly sensitive to the atomic structure at the boundary, with localized zero mode edge states found only on the zigzag type termination of the lattice. Here we demonstrate that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 M. Fleischmann , R. Gupta , D. Weckbecker , W. Landgraf , O. Pankratov , V. Meded , S. Shallcross

Moir\'e materials have emerged as a rich platform for exploring strong correlation effects in low dimensions, with twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) as a paradigmatic example. To distill the essential ingredients driving moir\'e-induced…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-19 Paban Kumar Patra , Ranjith R. Kumar , Yixuan Huang , Hridis K. Pal

We present a theoretical study of the intrinsic plasmonic properties of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) as a function of the twist angle $\theta$ (and other microscopic parameters such as temperature and filling factor). Our calculations,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 Lorenzo Cavicchi , Iacopo Torre , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Frank H. L. Koppens , Marco Polini

This work provides a convenient and powerful means towards the engineering of Floquet bands via Bloch oscillations, by adding a tilted linear potential to periodically driven lattice systems. The added linear field not only restricts the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 Xi Liu , Senmao Tan , Qing-hai Wang , Longwen Zhou , Jiangbin Gong

Recent measurements in several different laboratories report the observation of an approximately linear-in-temperature resistivity with a large twist-angle-dependent slope (or temperature coefficient) in moir\'e twisted bilayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-21 Sankar Das Sarma , Fengcheng Wu

A salient feature of solid-state topological materials in two dimensions is the presence of conducting electronic edge states that are insensitive to scattering by disorder. Such unidirectional edge states have been explored in many…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-28 Sebabrata Mukherjee , Mikael C. Rechtsman