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Twisted homobilayer transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) offers a versatile platform for exploring band topology, interaction-driven phases, and magnetic orders. We study the interaction-driven phases in twisted TMD homobilayers and their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-12 Taige Wang , Trithep Devakul , Michael P. Zaletel , Liang Fu

We develop the moir\'e band theory for M-valley twisted square homobilayers with layer groups $P$-$42m$ and $P$-$4m2$, and propose candidate material realizations. We show that moir\'e ferroelectricity-originating from sliding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Kejie Bao , Rui Shi , Huan Wang , Linghao Huang , Jing Wang

We demonstrate that interacting electrons in AB-stacked $\mathrm{MoTe}_2/\mathrm{WSe}_2$ realize a topological Kondo insulator at hole filling $\nu=2$ per moir\'e unit cell. In the presence of only local correlations, a symmetry of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-14 Andreas Gleis , Kevin Lucht , Po-Jui Chen , Daniele Guerci , Andrew J Millis , J. H. Pixley

Twisted bilayer systems with discrete magic angles, such as twisted bilayer graphene featuring moir\'{e} superlattices, provide a versatile platform for exploring novel physical properties. Here, we discover a class of superflat bands in…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-31 Hongfei Wang , Shaojie Ma , Shuang Zhang , Dangyuan Lei

Twisted van der Waals materials have risen as highly tunable platform for realizing unconventional superconductivity. Here we demonstrate how a topological superconducting state can be driven in a twisted graphene multilayer at a twist…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Maryam Khosravian , Elena Bascones , Jose L. Lado

We theoretically study a generalized Hubbard model on moir\'e superlattices of twisted bilayers, and find very rich filling-factor-dependent quantum phase diagrams tuned by interaction strength and twist angle. Strong long-range Coulomb…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-11 Haining Pan , Fengcheng Wu , Sankar Das Sarma

The recent discovery of topological flat bands in twisted transition metal dichalcogenide homobilayers and multilayer graphene has sparked significant research interest. We propose a new platform for realizing tunable topological moire flat…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-08 Xilong Xu , Haonan Wang , Li Yang

We introduce a generalizable, physics informed strategy for generating training data that enables a machine learning force field accurate over a broad range of twist angles and stacking layer numbers in moire systems. Applying this to…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-26 Yueyao Fan , Xiao-Wei Zhang , Yusen Ye , Xiaoyu Liu , Chong Wang , Kaijie Yang , Di Xiao , Ting Cao

We consider an effective Hubbard model with spin- and direction-dependent complex hoppings $t$, applied to twisted homobilayer WSe$_2$ using a variational Monte Carlo approach. The electronic correlations are taken into account by applying…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-10 Andrzej Biborski , Paweł Wójcik , Michał Zegrodnik

The discovery of superconductivity in twisted bilayer and twisted trilayer graphene has generated tremendous interest. The key feature of these systems is an interplay between interlayer coupling and a moir\'e superlattice that gives rise…

Recent advances in the field of vertically stacked 2D materials have revealed a rich exciton landscape. In particular, it has been demonstrated that out-of-plane electrical fields can be used to tune the spectral position of spatially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Joakim Hagel , Samuel Brem , Ermin Malic

Motivated by the observation of topological states in AB-stacked MoTe$_2$/WSe$_2$, we construct the symmetry-adapted Wannier states and tight-binding model for the quantum spin Hall bands in this system. Our construction is based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Xun-Jiang Luo , Minxuan Wang , Fengcheng Wu

Periodic stacking of topologically trivial and non-trivial layers with opposite symmetry of the valence and conduction bands induces topological interface states that, in the strong coupling limit, hybridize both across the topological and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 G. Krizman , B. A. Assaf , G. Bauer , G. Springholz , L. A. de Vaulchier , Y. Guldner

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

The discovery of quantized Chern numbers in twisted transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) homobilayers,including 3.7{deg} twisted MoTe2 and 1.23{deg} twisted WSe2,has emerged as a defining breakthrough in physics. A striking and unresolved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Ke Lv , Ya-Ning Ren , Lin He

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), with rotational misalignment close to 1.1$^\circ$, features isolated flat electronic bands that host a rich phase diagram of correlated insulating, superconducting, ferromagnetic, and topological…

In the absence of time reversal symmetry, orbital magnetization provides a sensitive probe of topology and interactions, with particularly rich phenomenology in Chern insulators where topological edge states carry large equilibrium…

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

Recent experiments discovered fractional Chern insulator states at zero magnetic field in twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ [C23,Z23] and WSe$_2$ [MD23]. In this article, we study the MacDonald Hamiltonian for twisted transition metal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-12 Simon Becker , Mengxuan Yang

We investigate the topological properties of Floquet-engineered twisted bilayer graphene above the magic angle driven by circularly polarized laser pulses. Employing a full Moir\'e-unit-cell tight-binding Hamiltonian based on…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-30 Gabriel E. Topp , Gregor Jotzu , James W. McIver , Lede Xian , Angel Rubio , Michael A. Sentef