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Ba$_8$CoNb$_6$O$_{24}$ presents a system whose Co$^{2+}$ ions have an effective spin 1/2 and construct a regular triangular-lattice antiferromagnet (TLAFM) with a very large interlayer spacing, ensuring purely two-dimensional character. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-17 Y. Cui , J. Dai , P. Zhou , P. S. Wang , T. R. Li , W. H. Song , J. C. Wang , L. Ma , Z. Zhang , S. Y. Li , G. M. Luke , B. Normand , T. Xiang , W. Yu

Two-dimensional semiconducting moir\'e materials have emerged as a highly tunable platform for exploring novel quantum phenomena. Recently, tMoTe2 has attracted significant attentions due to the observation of the long-sought fractional…

Entanglement underpins quantum information processing and computing, yet its experimental quantification in complex, many-body condensed matter systems remains a considerable challenge. Here, we reveal a highly entangled electronic phase…

We develop a theoretical framework for probing superconductivity with momentum resolution using the quantum twisting microscope (QTM), a planar tunneling device where a graphene tip is rotated relative to a two-dimensional sample. Because…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Yuval Waschitz , Ady Stern , Yuval Oreg

Moir\'e materials are artificial crystals formed at van der Waals heterojunctions that have emerged as a highly tunable platform to realize much of the rich quantum physics of electrons in atomic scale solids, also providing opportunities…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-24 Pawel Potasz , Nicolás Morales-Durán , Nai Chao Hu , Allan H. MacDonald

This review synthesizes recent advancements in the study of moir\'e magnetism. This emerging field, at the intersection of twistronics, topology, and strongly correlated systems, explores novel phenomena that arise when moir\'e potentials…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-06 Paula Mellado

Moir\'e superlattices formed in two-dimensional semiconductor heterobilayers provide a new realization of Hubbard model physics in which the number of electrons per effective atom can be tuned at will. We report on an exact diagonalization…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-10 Nicolás Morales-Durán , Pawel Potasz , Allan H. MacDonald

The multiple-spin exchange frequencies of the bilayer Wigner crystal are determined by the semiclassical method, which is asymptotically exact in the limit of dilute electron densities. The evolution of the exchange frequencies with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-05 Ilya Esterlis , Dmitry Zverevich , Zekun Zhuang , Alex Levchenko

Phases of matter are conventionally characterized by order parameters describing the type and degree of order in a system. For example, crystals consist of spatially ordered arrays of atoms, an order that is lost as the crystal melts. Like-…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-07-20 D. L. Campbell , R. M. Price , A. Putra , A. Valdés-Curiel , D. Trypogeorgos , I. B. Spielman

The characterization of quantum magnetism in a large spin ($\geq 1$) system naturally involves both spin-vectors and -tensors. While certain types of spin-vector (e.g., ferromagnetic, spiral) and spin-tensor (e.g., nematic in frustrated…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-05-12 Xiaofan Zhou , Xi-Wang Luo , Gang Chen , Suotang Jia , Chuanwei Zhang

Motivated by the recent experimental developments in van der Waals heterostructures, we investigate the emergent magnetism in Mott insulator - semimetal moir\'e superlattices by deriving effective spin models and exploring their phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-05 M. A. Keskiner , Pouyan Ghaemi , M. Ö. Oktel , Onur Erten

Artificially twisted heterostructures of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) offer unprecedented control over their electronic and optical properties via the spatial modulation of interlayer interactions and structural…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-25 Nikhil Tilak , Guohong Li , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Eva Y. Andrei

Wigner crystals are predicted as the crystallization of the dilute electron gas moving in a uniform background when the electron-electron Coulomb energy dominates the kinetic energy. The Wigner crystal has previously been observed in the…

Experimental demonstrations of tunable correlation effects in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene have put two-dimensional moir\'e quantum materials at the forefront of condensed-matter research. Other twisted few-layer graphitic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-27 Michael M. Scherer , Dante M. Kennes , Laura Classen

Within the framework of the $s$-$d(f)$ exchange model in the mean-field approximation for square, simple cubic, body-centered and face-centered cubic lattices, the formation of a ferromagnetic, spiral, and commensurate antiferromagnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-14 A. K. Pankratova , P. A. Igoshev , V. Yu. Irkhin

Twistronics, which exploits moire modulation of lattice and electronic structures in twisted bilayers, has emerged as a powerful approach to engineer novel quantum states. Recent efforts have expanded beyond two dimensional van der Waals…

The relationship between vacancy ordering and magnetism in TlFe1.6Se2 has been investigated via single crystal neutron diffraction, nuclear forward scattering, and transmission electron microscopy. The examination of chemically and…

We investigate the multiparticle ring exchange couplings of the two-dimensional triangular Wigner crystal in external commensurate triangular and honeycomb potentials, using a semiclassical approach valid in the regime where Coulomb…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-27 Ilya Esterlis , Alex Levchenko

Quantum particles on a lattice with competing long-range interactions are ubiquitous in physics. Transition metal oxides, layered molecular crystals and trapped ion arrays are a few examples out of many. In the strongly interacting regime,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-02 Yang Xu , Song Liu , Daniel A Rhodes , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , James Hone , Veit Elser , Kin Fai Mak , Jie Shan

Twisted homobilayer transition metal dichalcogenides - specifically twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ and twisted bilayer WSe$_2$ - have recently emerged as a versatile platform for strongly correlated and topological phases of matter. These…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-10 Bohao Li , Wen-Xuan Qiu , Fengcheng Wu , A. H. MacDonald