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When semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides heterostructures are stacked the twist angle and lattice mismatch leads to a periodic moir\'e potential. As the angle between the layers changes, so do the electronic properties. As the…

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayers with an interlayer twist exhibit a moire super-period, whose effects can manifest in both structural and electronic properties. Atomic displacements can lead to reconstruction into domains of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-23 Madeleine Phillips , C. Stephen Hellberg

Moir\'e transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) systems provide a tunable platform for studying electron-correlation driven quantum phases. Such phases have so far been found at rational fillings of the moir\'e superlattice, and it is…

Twist-engineering of the electronic structure of van-der-Waals layered materials relies predominantly on band hybridization between layers. Band-edge states in transition-metal-dichalcogenide semiconductors are localized around the metal…

We propose an effective lattice model for the moir\'e structure of the twisted bilayer dice lattice. In the chiral limit, we find that there are flat bands at the zero-energy level at any twist angle besides the magic ones and these flat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-25 Di Ma , Yu-Ge Chen , Yue Yu , Xi Luo

Moir\'e systems have emerged in recent years as a rich platform to study strong correlations. Here, we will discuss a simple, experimentally feasible setup based on periodically strained graphene that reproduces several key aspects of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-03 Qiang Gao , Junkai Dong , Patrick Ledwith , Daniel Parker , Eslam Khalaf

We develop a twist-angle transferable continuum model for twisted transition metal dichalcogenide (tTMD) homobilayers, using tMoTe2 and tWSe2 as examples. All model parameters are extracted from density functional theory (DFT) calculations…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-26 Xiao-Wei Zhang , Kaijie Yang , Chong Wang , Xiaoyu Liu , Ting Cao , Di Xiao

Chern insulators, which are the lattice analogs of the quantum Hall states, can potentially manifest high-temperature topological orders at zero magnetic field to enable next-generation topological quantum devices. To date, integer Chern…

Twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) forms a quasicrystal whose structural and electronic properties depend on the angle of rotation between its layers. Here we present a scanning tunneling microscopy study of gate-tunable tBLG devices supported…

It has been demonstrated that topological quantum spin Hall (QSH) state exist in twisted bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides. However, a comprehensive theoretical characterization of the topological edge states remains a topic of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Hao He , Zhao Gong , Shuai Li , Jian-Jun Liu , Hui-Ying Mu , Xing-Tao An

Moir\'e excitons are emergent optical excitations in 2D semiconductors with deep moir\'e superlattice potentials. While these excitations have been realized in several platforms, a system with dynamically tunable moir\'e potential to tailor…

The moir\'e Hubbard model describes correlations in certain homobilayer twisted transition metal dichalcogenides. Using exact diagonalization and density matrix renormalization group methods, we find magnetic Mott insulating and metallic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-15 Alexander Wietek , Jie Wang , Jiawei Zang , Jennifer Cano , Antoine Georges , Andrew Millis

An unconventional insulating phase and a superconducting phase were recently discovered in the twisted bilayer graphene [Y. Cao et al, Nature {\bf 556}, 80; {\bf 556}, 43 (2018)], but the relevant low-energy electronic states have not been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-02 Long Zhang

A two-dimensional (2D) hetero-bilayer system consisting of MoS2 on WSe2, deposited on epitaxial graphene, is studied by scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy at temperatures of 5 and 80 K. A moir\'e pattern is observed, arising…

Moir\'{e} superlattices in twisted bilayer graphene and transition-metal dichalcogenides have emerged as a powerful tool for engineering novel band structures and quantum phases of two-dimensional quantum materials. Here we investigate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-03-17 Xi-Wang Luo , Chuanwei Zhang

The interplay of topological characteristics in real space and reciprocal space can lead to the emergence of unconventional topological phases. In this Letter, we implement a novel mechanism for generating higher-Chern flat bands on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-23 Yifei Guan , Oleg V. Yazyev , Alexander Kruchkov

Recent experiments observed fractional Chern insulators (FCI) in twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ at zero magnetic field, yet even the single-particle model of this material is controversial, leading to unreliable predictions of the experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-15 Yujin Jia , Jiabin Yu , Jiaxuan Liu , Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman , Ziyue Qi , Nicolas Regnault , Hongming Weng , B. Andrei Bernevig , Quansheng Wu

Superconductivity has recently been observed in moir\'e transition-metal dichalcogenide bilayers. Here, we investigate the superconducting state in twisted WSe$_2$ using two complementary theoretical approaches. The first is based on the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-07 Waseem Akbar , Michał Zegrodnik

Unlike the spin-1/2 fermions, the Lieb and Dice lattices both host triply-degenerate low-energy excitations. Here, we discuss Moir\'e structures involving twisted bilayers of these lattices, which are shown to exhibit a tunable number of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-05 Xiaoting Zhou , Yi-Chun Hung , Baokai Wang , Arun Bansil

Moir\'e superlattices in van der Waals structures can be used to control the electronic properties of the material and lead to emergent correlated and topological phenomena. Its first demonstration in van der Waals magnets exhibited…