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Fractional quantum anomalous Hall effects realized in twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ and multilayer-graphene-based moir\'e heterostructures have captured a tremendous growth of interest. In this work, we propose that rhombohedral multilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Yanran Shi , Bo Xie , Fengfan Ren , Xinyu Cai , Zhongqing Guo , Qiao Li , Xin Lu , Nicolas Regnault , Zhongkai Liu , Jianpeng Liu

The specific rotational alignment of two-dimensional lattices results in a moir\'e superlattice with a larger period than the original lattices and allows one to engineer the electronic band structure of such materials. So far, transport…

Flat bands in moir\'e superlattices provide a fertile ground for correlated and topological phases, governed by their quantum geometric properties. While the valley-based paradigm captures key features in select materials, it breaks down in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Xiaoting Zhou , Yi-Chun Hung , Arun Bansil

A periodic spatial modulation, as created by a moir\'e pattern, has been extensively studied with the view to engineer and tune the properties of graphene. Graphene encapsulated by hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) when slightly misaligned with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-31 M. Anđelković , S. P. Milovanović , L. Covaci , F. M. Peeters

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…

Moir\'e superlattices in twisted two-dimensional materials have generated tremendous excitement as a platform for achieving quantum properties on demand. However, the moir\'e pattern is highly sensitive to the interlayer atomic registry,…

Enhancing superconductivity through material design is a central goal in quantum materials research. Moire engineering, where twisting stacked layers creates long-wavelength modulations and flat bands, has shown how electronic correlations…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-18 T. Bauch , F. Lombardi , G. Seibold

Topological flat bands, such as the band in twisted bilayer graphene, are becoming a promising platform to study topics such as correlation physics, superconductivity, and transport. In this work, we introduce a generic approach to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Da-Shuai Ma , Yuanfeng Xu , Christie S. Chiu , Nicolas Regnault , Andrew A. Houck , Zhida Song , B. Andrei Bernevig

The stacking order and twist angle provide abundant opportunities for engineering band structures of two-dimensional materials, including the formation of moire bands, flat bands, and topologically nontrivial bands. The inversion symmetry…

Twisted moir\'e superlattices hosting topological flat bands provide a platform to explore the interplay between topology and correlations. Here we investigate topological band structures in $\Gamma$-valley moir\'e systems based on…

Moir\'e superlattices in two-dimensional materials provide a versatile platform to explore strongly correlated and topological phases. This work presents a practical theoretical workflow for studying the correlated and topological states in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-09 Xin Lu , Bo Xie , Jianpeng Liu

Two-dimensional (2D) materials naturally form moir\'{e} patterns with other crystalline layers, such as other 2D material or the surface of a substrate. These patterns add a nanoscale characteristic length in the form of a superlattice: the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-12 Nicolas Rougemaille , Johann Coraux

The emergence of topologically non-trivial flat bands in moir\'e materials provides an opportunity to explore the interplay between topological physics and correlation effects, leading to the recent experimental realization of interacting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Kaijie Yang , Yunzhe Liu , Frank Schindler , Chao-Xing Liu

Recently twisted bilayer graphene (t-BLG) emerges as a new strongly correlated physical platform near a magic twist angle, which hosts many exciting phenomena such as the Mott-like insulating phases, unconventional superconducting behavior…

By merging bottom-up and top-down strategies we tailor graphene's electronic properties within nanometer accuracy, which opens up the possibility to design optical and plasmonic circuitries at will. In a first step, graphene electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-29 A. J. Martínez-Galera , I. Brihuega , A. Gutiérrez-Rubio , T. Stauber , J. M. Gómez-Rodríguez

Twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) has emerged as a promising platform to explore exotic electronic phases. However, the formation of moir\'e patterns in tBLG has thus far been confined to the introduction of twist angles between the layers.…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-10 Gabriel R. Schleder , Michele Pizzochero , Efthimios Kaxiras

The discovery of flat-bands in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has underscored the potential of moire engineering for correlated states, but such phases are notoriously difficult to realize and highly fragile against perturbations.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Yalan Wei , Shifang Li , Yuke Song , Chaoyu He

Topological insulators (TIs) are an emerging class of materials that host highly robust in-gap surface/interface states while maintaining an insulating bulk. While most notable scientific advancements in this field have been focused on TIs…

When using hexagonal boron-nitride (hBN) as a substrate for graphene, the resulting moir\'e pattern creates secondary Dirac points. By encapsulating a multilayer graphene within aligned hBN sheets the controlled moir\'e stacking may offer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-14 Robin Smeyers , Lucian Covaci , Milorad V. Milošević

We propose Landau levels as a probe for the topological character of electronic bands in two-dimensional moir\'e superlattices. We consider two configurations of twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG) that have very similar band structures,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 QuanSheng Wu , Jianpeng Liu , Oleg V. Yazyev