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In the search of fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) effect, the conventional wisdom is to start from a flat Chern band isolated from the rest of the Hilbert space by band gaps, so that many-body interaction can be projected to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Wenqi Yang , Dawei Zhai , Tixuan Tan , Feng-Ren Fan , Zuzhang Lin , Wang Yao

The coexistence of superconductivity and fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) effect has recently been observed in twisted MoTe$_2$ and theoretically demonstrated in a model of repulsively interacting electrons under an emergent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-18 Daniele Guerci , Ahmed Abouelkomsan , Liang Fu

We demonstrate via exact diagonalization that AA-stacked TMD homobilayers host fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) states with fractionally quantized Hall conductance at fractional fillings $n=\frac{1}{3},\, \frac{2}{3}$ and zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-24 Aidan P. Reddy , Faisal F. Alsallom , Yang Zhang , Trithep Devakul , Liang Fu

We propose a new mechanism to explain the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect and the electric-field-induced topological phase transition in AB-stacked MoTe${}_2$/WSe${}_2$ moir\'e heterobilayers at $\nu=1$ hole filling. We suggest that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Yao-Wen Chang , Yia-Chung Chang

The discovery of fractional charge excitations in new platforms offers crucial insights into strongly correlated quantum phases. While a range of fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) states have recently been observed in two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Haiyang Pan , Shunshun Yang , Yuzhu Wang , Xiangbin Cai , Wei Wang , Yan Zhao , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Linlong Zhang , Youwen Liu , Bo Yang , Weibo Gao

Sliding is a ubiquitous phenomenon in moir\'e systems, but its direct influence on moir\'e bands, especially in multi-twist moir\'e systems, has been largely overlooked to date. Here, we theoretically show that sliding provides a unique…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Shi-Ping Ding , Miao Liang , Tian-Le Wu , Meng-Hao Wu , Jing-Tao Lü , Jin-Hua Gao , X. C. Xie

Moir\'e superlattices hosting flat bands and correlated states have emerged as a focal topic in condensed matter research. Through first-principles calculations, we investigate three-dimensional flat bands in alternating twisted NbSe$_2$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-08 Shuang Liu , Peng Chen , Shihao Zhang

Moir\'e materials host a wealth of intertwined correlated and topological states of matter, all arising from flat electronic bands with nontrivial quantum geometry. A prominent example is the family of alternating-twist magic-angle graphene…

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

Moir\'e superlattices based on two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have emerged as a highly versatile and fruitful platform for exploring correlated topological electronic phases. One of the most remarkable examples is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-02 Ming Xie , Mohammad Hafezi , Sankar Das Sarma

Electrons in topological flat bands can form novel topological states driven by the correlation effects. The penta-layer rhombohedral graphene/hBN moire superlattice has been shown to host fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect (FQAHE) at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Zhengguang Lu , Tonghang Han , Yuxuan Yao , Jixiang Yang , Junseok Seo , Lihan Shi , Shenyong Ye , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Long Ju

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

Twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ is a promising platform to investigate the interplay between band topology and many-body interaction. We present a theoretical study of its interaction-driven quantum phase diagrams based on a three-orbital model,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-16 Wen-Xuan Qiu , Bohao Li , Xun-Jiang Luo , Fengcheng Wu

Moir\'e superlattices in semiconductors exhibit a rich variety of interaction-induced topological states, including quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effects. A recent study hinted that twisted WSe2 homobilayer (tWSe2) could host a QAH state but…

The fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect (FQAHE), the analog of the fractional quantum Hall effect1 at zero magnetic field, is predicted to exist in topological flat bands under spontaneous time-reversal-symmetry breaking. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-29 Zhengguang Lu , Tonghang Han , Yuxuan Yao , Aidan P. Reddy , Jixiang Yang , Junseok Seo , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Liang Fu , Long Ju

Twisted MoTe$_2$ hosts intriguing correlated quantum phenomena including the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect in twisted bilayer (t-BL) MoTe$_2$ near 3.7$^\circ$, which is sensitive to the twist angle and moir\'e superlattices.…

Remarkable recent experiments have observed fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) effects at zero field and unusually high temperatures in twisted semiconductor bilayer $t$MoTe$_2$. Intriguing observations in these experiments such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-03 Ahmed Abouelkomsan , Aidan P. Reddy , Liang Fu , Emil J. Bergholtz

Moir\'e superlattices created by the twisted stacking of two-dimensional crystalline monolayers can host electronic bands with flat energy dispersion in which interaction among electrons is strongly enhanced. These superlattices can also…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 Xiaomeng Liu , Cheng-Li Chiu , Jong Yeon Lee , Gelareh Farahi , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ashvin Vishwanath , Ali Yazdani

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayers with an interlayer twist exhibit a moire super-period, whose effects can manifest in both structural and electronic properties. Atomic displacements can lead to reconstruction into domains of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-23 Madeleine Phillips , C. Stephen Hellberg

Moir\'e materials have become one of the most active fields in material science in recent years due to their high tunability, and their unique properties emerge from the Moir\'e-scale structure modulation. Here, we propose twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-17 Ikuma Tateishi , Motoaki Hirayama