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We report on measurements of quantized conductance in gate-defined quantum point contacts in bilayer graphene that allow the observation of subband splittings due to spin-orbit coupling. The size of this splitting can be tuned from 40 to 80…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-05 L. Banszerus , B. Frohn , T. Fabian , S. Somanchi , A. Epping , M. Müller , D. Neumaier , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , F. Libisch , B. Beschoten , F. Hassler , C. Stampfer

We generate experimentally a honeycomb refractive index pattern in an atomic vapor cell using electromagnetically-induced transparency. We study experimentally and theoretically the propagation of polarized light beams in such "photonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-13 Zhaoyang Zhang , Shun Liang , Feng Li , Shaohuan Ning , Yiming Li , G. Malpuech , Yanpeng Zhang , Min Xiao , D. Solnyshkov

Moir\'e effects in twisted or lattice-incommensurate vertical assemblies of two-dimensional crystals give rise to a new class of quantum materials with rich transport and optical phenomena, including correlated electron physics in flat…

Moir\'e heterostructures provide a powerful framework for tailoring electronic band structures via controlled long-range periodic superlattice potentials. Beyond widely studied moir\'e-tailored flat bands, folded band structures can host…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-29 R. Ganser , M. P. T. Masilamani , B. Geldiyev , M. M. Hirschmann , A. Consiglio , J. Schusser , D. Di Sante , M. Ünzelmann , F. Reinert

We demonstrate a generic mechanism to realize topological flat minibands by confining massive Dirac fermions in a periodic moir\'e potential, which can be achieved in a heterobilayer of transition metal dichalcogenides. We show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-28 Ying Su , Heqiu Li , Chuanwei Zhang , Kai Sun , Shi-Zeng Lin

We illustrate the possibility of realizing band gaps in graphene-like systems that fall outside the existing classification of gapped Dirac Hamiltonians in terms of masses. As our primary example we consider a band gap arising due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-31 Thomas Iadecola , Titus Neupert , Claudio Chamon

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) subject to a sequence of commensurate external periodic potentials reveals the formation of moir\'{e} fractals (MF) that share striking similarities with the central place theory (CPT) of economic geography,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Deepanshu Aggarwal , Rohit Narula , Sankalpa Ghosh

The spectrum of excitations a two-dimensional, planar honeycomb lattice of two-level atoms coupled by the in-plane electromagnetic field may exhibit band gaps that can be opened either by applying an external magnetic field or by breaking…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-27 Pierre Wulles , Sergey E. Skipetrov

We propose a tunable optical setup to engineer topologically nontrivial flat bands in twisted bilayer graphene under circularly polarized light. Using both analytical and numerical calculations, we demonstrate that nearly flat bands can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-18 Yantao Li , H. A. Fertig , Babak Seradjeh

Moir\'e superlattices in twisted van der Waals materials constitute a promising platform for engineering electronic and optical properties. However, a major obstacle to fully understanding these systems and harnessing their potential is the…

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 novel physics of twisted bilayer graphene has motivated extensive studies of magic-angle flat bands hosted by moir\'e structures in electronic, photonic and acoustic systems. On the other hand, bound states in the continuum (BICs) have…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-13 Lei Huang , Weixuan Zhang , Xiangdong Zhang

Excitation and control of antiferromagnetic magnon modes lie at the heart of coherent antiferromagnetic spintronics. Here, we propose a topological surface magnon-polariton as a new approach in the prototypical magnonic material hematite.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Weixin Li , Rundong Yuan , Fenglin Zhong , Bo Peng , Jean-Philippe Ansermet , Haiming Yu

We report on the theoretical electronic spectra of twisted phosphorene bilayers exhibiting moir\'e patterns, as computed by means of a continuous approximation to the moir\'e superlattice Hamiltonian. Our model is constructed by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-23 Isaac Soltero , Jonathan Guerrero-Sánchez , Francisco Mireles , David A. Ruiz-Tijerina

The Moir\'e superlattice has attracted growing interest in the electromagnetic and optical communities. Here, we extend this concept to time-varying photonic systems by superposing two binary modulations on the refractive index with…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-17 Zhaohui Dong , Xianfeng Chen , Luqi Yuan

Van der Waals heterostructures provide a versatile platform for tailoring electronic properties through the integration of two-dimensional materials. Among these combinations, the interaction between bilayer graphene and transition metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 M. Masseroni , M. Gull , A. Panigrahi , N. Jacobsen , F. Fischer , C. Tong , J. D. Gerber , M. Niese , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , L. Levitov , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin , H. Duprez

We predict that photonic moir\'e patterns created by two mutually twisted periodic sublattices in quadratic nonlinear media allow the formation of parametric solitons under conditions that are strongly impacted by the geometry of the…

Twisted double- and mono-bilayer graphene are graphene-based moir\'e materials hosting strongly correlated fermions in a gate-tunable conduction band with a topologically non-trivial character. Using unbiased exact diagonalization…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-22 Patrick H. Wilhelm , Thomas C. Lang , Mathias S. Scheurer , Andreas M. Läuchli

We theoretically study in-plane acoustic phonons of graphene/hexagonal boron nitride moir\'e superlattice by using a continuum model. We demonstrate that the original phonon bands of individual layers are strongly hybridized and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-03 Lukas P. A. Krisna , Mikito Koshino

In recent years, twisted bilayer graphene has become a hot topic and inspired the research upsurge of photonic moir\'e lattice. Here, we designed a photonic moir\'e superlattice with two synthetic twist angles and constructed a synthetic…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-17 Z. N. Liu , X. Q. Zhao , J. Yao , C. Zhang , J. L. Xu , S. N. Zhu , H. Liu