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We perform a theoretical study of the orbital effect of a magnetic field on a proximity-coupled islands array of $p_{x}+ip_{y}$ topological superconductors. To describe the system, we generalize the tight-binding model of the Hofstadter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Omri Lesser , Yuval Oreg

We show that topological frequency band structures emerge in two-dimensional electromagnetic lattices of metamaterial components without the application of an external magnetic field. The topological nature of the band structure manifests…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-05 Vassilios Yannopapas

The supermoir\'e lattice, arising from the interference of multiple moir\'e patterns, dramatically reshapes the electronic band structure by introducing new minibands and modifying band dispersion. Concurrently, strong electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-11 Zekang Zhou , Cheng Shen , Kryštof Kolář , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Cyprian Lewandowski , Mitali Banerjee

Quasicrystals are long-range ordered and yet non-periodic. This interplay results in a wealth of intriguing physical phenomena, such as the inheritance of topological properties from higher dimensions, and the presence of non-trivial…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-07-04 Konrad Viebahn , Matteo Sbroscia , Edward Carter , Jr-Chiun Yu , Ulrich Schneider

The emergence of high transition temperature (Tc) superconductivity in strongly correlated materials remains a major unsolved problem in physics. High-Tc materials, such as cuprates, are generally complex and not easily tunable, making…

We investigate the physics of photonic band structures of the moir\'e patterns that emerged when overlapping two uni-dimensional (1D) photonic crystal slabs with mismatched periods. The band structure of our system is a result of the…

Moir\'e superlattices of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) enable unprecedented spatial control of electron wavefunctions in an artificial lattice with periodicities more than ten times larger than that of atomic…

Emergent quantum phases driven by electronic interactions can manifest in materials with narrowly dispersing, i.e. "flat", energy bands. Recently, flat bands have been realized in a variety of graphene-based heterostructures using the…

The thermodynamical phenomenological theory of magnetically active superconducting materials and magnetic-superconducting heterostructures is presented. The materials may exhibit arbitrarily strong anisotropy, parametric or structural.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-12-20 Dominik Rogula , Małgorzata Sztyren

We construct and solve a two-dimensional, chirally symmetric model of Dirac cones subjected to a quasiperiodic modulation. In real space, this is realized with a quasiperiodic hopping term. This hopping model, as we show, at the Dirac node…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-08 Yang-Zhi Chou , Yixing Fu , Justin H. Wilson , E. J. König , J. H. Pixley

The concept of twistronics and moir\'e physics, which is present in twisted two-dimensional bilayer materials, has recently attracted growing attention in various fields of science and engineering such as condensed matter physics,…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-18 Grigorii Ptitcyn , Nader Engheta

Moir\'e superlattices can induce correlated-electronic phases in twisted van-der-Waals materials. Strongly correlated quantum phenomena emerge, such as superconductivity and the Mott-insulating state. However, moir\'e superlattices produced…

Energy bands of electrons in a square lattice potential threaded by a uniform magnetic field exhibit a fractal structure known as the Hofstadter butterfly. Here we study a Fermi gas in a 2D optical lattice within a linear cavity with a tilt…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-02-06 Elvia Colella , Farokh Mivehvar , Francesco Piazza , Helmut Ritsch

The discovery of topological phases in condensed matter systems has changed the modern conception of phases of matter. The global nature of topological ordering makes these phases robust and hence promising for applications. However, the…

Moir\'e physics has transcended spatial dimensions, extending into synthetic domains and enabling novel quantum phenomena. We propose a theoretical model for a two-dimensional (2D) Moir\'e time crystal formed by ultracold atoms, induced by…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-03-03 Weijie Liang , Weiping Zhang , Keye Zhang

We present a theoretical study of transport properties through superconducting contacts based on a new formulation of boundary conditions that mimics interfaces for the quasiclassical theory of superconductivity. These boundary conditions…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 J. C. Cuevas , M. Fogelstrom

The emergence of twistronics provides an unprecedented platform to modulate the band structure, resulting in exotic electronic phenomena ranging from ferromagnetism to superconductivity. However, such concept on phonon engineering is still…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-25 Yufeng Zhang , Meng An , Dongxing Song , Haidong Wang , Weigang Ma , Xing Zhang

We show that the electronic spectrum of a tight-binding Hamiltonian defined in a quasiperiodic chain with an on-site potential given by a Fibonacci sequence, can be obtained as a superposition of Harper potentials. The electronic spectrum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-12 Gerardo G. Naumis , F. J. Lopez-Rodriguez

Quasicrystal is now open to search for novel topological phenomena enhanced by its peculiar structure characterized by an irrational number and high-dimensional primitive vectors. Here we extend the concept of a topological insulator with…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-12-02 Rasoul Ghadimi , Takanori Sugimoto , Takami Tohyama

Recently, moir\'e superlattices have been found on the surface of topological insulators (TI) due to the rotational misalignment of topmost layers. In this work, we study the effects of moir\'e superlattices on the topological surface…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-05-03 Taige Wang , Noah F. Q. Yuan , Liang Fu