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The interlayer van der Waals interaction in twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) induces both in-plane and out-of-plane atomic displacements showing complex patterns that depend on the twist angle. In particular, for small twist angles, within…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Kunihiro Yananose , Giovanni Cantele , Procolo Lucignano , Sang-Wook Cheong , Jaejun Yu , Alessandro Stroppa

Breakthroughs in two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures have revealed that twisting creates a moir\'e pattern that quenches the kinetic energy of electrons, allowing for exotic many-body states. We show that cold-atomic, trapped…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-12 Yixing Fu , E. J. König , J. H. Wilson , Yang-Zhi Chou , J. H. Pixley

Thermoelectrics (TEs) are solid-state devices that can realize heat-electricity conversion. Transverse TEs require materials with a large Nernst effect, which typically requires a strong applied magnetic field. However, topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-08 Jiamin Wen , Kaustuv Manna , Dung Vu , Subhadeep Bej , Yu Pan , Claudia Felser , Brian Skinner , Joseph P. Heremans

Understanding the electronic transport properties of layered, van der Waals transition metal halides (TMHs) and chalcogenides is a highly active research topic today. Of particular interest is the evolution of those properties with changing…

The introduction of 'twist' or relative rotation between two atomically thin van der Waals (vdW) membranes gives rise to periodic Moire potential, leading to a substantial altercation of the band structure of the planar assembly. While most…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Phanibhusan S Mahapatra , Bhaskar Ghawri , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Subroto Mukerjee , Arindam Ghosh

The natural van der Waals heterostructure 4H$_b$-TaS$_2$ composed of alternating 1T- and 1H-TaS$_2$ layers serves as a platform for investigating the electronic correlations and layer-dependent properties of novel quantum materials. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 R. Mathew Roy , X. Feng , M. Wenzel , V. Hasse , C. Shekhar , M. G. Vergniory , C. Felser , A. V. Pronin , M. Dressel

We introduce a universal methodology for generating and manipulating altermagnetism in two-dimensional (2D) magnetic van der Waals (MvdW) materials through twisting. We find that a key in-plane 2-fold rotational operation can be achieved in…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-19 Yichen Liu , Junxi Yu , Cheng-Cheng Liu

Twistronics rooted in the twist operation towards bilayer van der Waals crystals is of both theoretical and technological importance. The realize of the correlated electronic behaviors under this operation encourages enormous effort to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-22 Yu-Hao Shen , Wen-Yi Tong , He Hu , Chun-Gang Duan

We study the manifestation of the Nernst effect in the Corbino disk subjected to the normal external magnetic field and to the radial temperature gradient. The Corbino geometry offers a precious opportunity for the direct measurement of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-30 A. V. Kavokin , B. L. Altshuler , S. G. Sharapov , P. S. Grigoryev , A. A. Varlamov

Twisted van der Waals bilayers provide an ideal platform to study the electron correlation in solids. Of particular interest is the 30 degree twisted bilayer honeycomb lattice system, which possesses an incommensurate moire pattern and…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-02 Yu-Hao Shen , Wen-Yi Tong , He Hu , Jun-Ding Zheng , Chun-Gang Duan

The ability to control magnetic interactions at the nanoscale is crucial for the development of next-generation spintronic devices and functional magnetic materials. In this work, we investigate theoretically, by means of many-body…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 Tomas T. Osterholt , D. O. Oriekhov , Lumen Eek , Cristiane Morais Smith , Rembert A. Duine

The Hall effect can be extended by inducing a temperature gradient in lieu of electric field that is known as the Nernst (-Ettingshausen) effect. The recently discovered spin Nernst effect in heavy metals continues to enrich the picture of…

Chiral spin textures such as skyrmions have attracted considerable attention due to their nontrivial topology, chirality, stability at the nanoscale, and potential for low-power spintronic devices. The recent discovery of intrinsic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Nihad Abuawwad , Samir Lounis

The Nernst effect is the transverse electric field produced by a longitudinal thermal gradient in presence of magnetic field. In the beginning of this century, Nernst experiments on cuprates were analyzed assuming that: i) The contribution…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-28 Kamran Behnia , Hervé Aubin

Electric generation of spin current via spin Hall effect is of great interest as it allows an efficient manipulation of magnetization in spintronic devices. Theoretically, spin current can be also created by a temperature gradient, which is…

We theoretically study the conditions under which a spin Nernst effect - a transverse spin current induced by an applied temperature gradient - can occur in a canted antiferromagnetic insulator, such as ${\rm LaFeO_3}$ and other materials…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Wesley Roberts , Bowen Ma , Martin Rodriguez-Vega , Gregory A. Fiete

We theoretically investigate topological spin transport of the magnon-polarons in bilayer magnet with two-dimensional square lattices. Our theory is motivated by recent reports on the van der Waals magnets which show the reversible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Gyungchoon Go , Se Kwon Kim

A large transverse thermoelectric response, known as anomalous Nernst effect (ANE) has been recently observed in several topological magnets. Building a thermopile employing this effect has been the subject of several recent propositions.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-09-24 Xiaokang Li , Zengwei Zhu , Kamran Behnia

The Nernst and Seebeck effects are crucial for thermoelectric energy harvesting. However, the linear anomalous Nernst effect requires magnetic materials with intrinsically broken time-reversal symmetry. In non-magnetic systems, the dominant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Harsh Varshney , Amit Agarwal

Kagome metal TbMn6Sn6 was recently discovered to be a ferrimagnetic topological Dirac material by scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy measurements. Here, we report the observation of large anomalous Nernst effect and anomalous…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-23 Heda Zhang , Jahyun Koo , Chunqiang Xu , Milos Sretenovic , Binghai Yan , Xianglin Ke