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Strain-induced lattice mismatch leads to moir\'{e} patterns in homobilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). We investigate the structural and electronic properties of such strained moir\'{e} patterns in TMD homobilayers. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-21 Sudipta Kundu , Indrajit Maity , Robin Bajaj , H. R. Krishnamurthy , Manish Jain

The moir\'e superlattice formed by ABC stacked trilayer graphene aligned with a hexagonal boron nitride substrate (TG/h-BN) provides an interesting system where both the bandwidth and the topology can be tuned by an applied perpendicular…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-05 Ya-Hui Zhang , T. Senthil

We study the transition of $\nu=1/3$ and $2/5$ fractional quantum Hall states of the honeycomb Hofstadter model as we tune to a two-orbital moir\'e superlattice Hamiltonian, motivated by the flat bands of twisted bilayer graphene in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-18 Bartholomew Andrews , Alexey Soluyanov

Two-dimensional moir\'e Chern bands provide an exceptional platform for exploring a variety of many-body quantum phases at zero magnetic field within a lattice system. One particular intriguing possibility is that flat Chern bands can, in…

Combining magnetism and nontrivial band topology gives rise to quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators and exotic quantum phases such as the QAH effect where current flows without dissipation along quantized edge states. Inducing magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Qile Li , Chi Xuan Trang , Weikang Wu , Jinwoong Hwang , Nikhil Medhekar , Sung-Kwan Mo , Shengyuan A. Yang , Mark T Edmonds

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect is sometimes observed in twisted bilayer graphene (tBG) when it is nearly aligned with an encapsulating hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) layer. We propose that the appearance or absence of the QAH effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 Jingtian Shi , Jihang Zhu , A. H. MacDonald

Moir\'e superlattices formed by semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) provide a highly tunable platform for investigating strongly correlated and topological quantum phases. As a prototypical example, twisted bilayer MoTe2…

A general mechanism is presented by which topological physics arises in strongly correlated systems without flat bands. Starting from a charge transfer insulator, topology emerges when the charge transfer energy between the cation and anion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-08 Trithep Devakul , Liang Fu

Recently, it has been pointed out that the twisting of bilayer WSe$_2$ would generate topologically non-trivial flat bands near the Fermi energy. In this work, we show that twisted bilayer WSe$_2$ (tWSe$_2$) with uniaxial strain exhibits a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 Jin-Xin Hu , Cheng-Ping Zhang , Ying-Ming Xie , K. T. Law

The standard theoretical framework for fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect (FQAH) assumes an isolated flat Chern band in the single particle level. In this paper we challenges this paradigm for the FQAH recently observed in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-12 Boran Zhou , Hui Yang , Ya-Hui Zhang

The valence band edge in tiny angle twist bilayers of MoS$_2$ and phosphorene is shown to consist of highly localized energy levels created by a `moir\'e quantum well', i.e. trapped by the interlayer moir\'e potential. These approximately…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 M. Fleischmann , R. Gupta , S. Sharma , S. Shallcross

The recent discovery of robust quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect in rhombohedral multilayer graphene (RMG) aligned with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has established a highly versatile platform for correlated topological matter. This…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-16 Jiannan Hua , Jing Ding , W. Zhu , Shui-gang Xu

To have a fully ab initio description of the Moir\'e pattern in a transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayer, we have carried out density functional theory calculations, taking accounts of both atomic registry in and the lattice…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-03 W. T. Geng , V. Wang , Y. C. Liu , T. Ohno , J. Nara

Quantum geometry of electronic wavefunctions results in fascinating topological phenomena. A prominent example is the intrinsic anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in which a Hall voltage arises in the absence of an applied magnetic field. The AHE…

Remarkable recent experiments on the moir\'e structure formed by pentalayer rhombohedral graphene aligned with a hexagonal Boron-Nitride substrate report the discovery of a zero field fractional quantum hall effect. These "(Fractional)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-10 Zhihuan Dong , Adarsh S. Patri , T. Senthil

We report that the twisted few layer graphite (tFL-graphite) is a new family of moir\'{e} heterostructures (MHSs), which has richer and highly tunable moir\'{e} flat band structures entirely distinct from all the known MHSs. A tFL-graphite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-02 Zhen Ma , Shuai Li , Meng-Meng Xiao , Ya-Wen Zheng , Ming Lu , HaiWen Liu , Jin-Hua Gao , X. C. Xie

The moir\'{e} structure of AB-stacked $\rm{MoTe_2/WSe_2}$ represents a natural platform to realize Kondo lattice models, due to the discrepancy of the bandwidth between the individual layers. Here, we study this system at the commensurate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-09 Fang Xie , Lei Chen , Yuan Fang , Qimiao Si

Moir\'e flatbands with high Chern numbers (C>1) offer opportunities to study the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effects that go beyond the Landau level paradigm with C=1, which remain unexplored yet. Here, we target the novel topological…

We introduce a generalizable, physics informed strategy for generating training data that enables a machine learning force field accurate over a broad range of twist angles and stacking layer numbers in moire systems. Applying this to…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-26 Yueyao Fan , Xiao-Wei Zhang , Yusen Ye , Xiaoyu Liu , Chong Wang , Kaijie Yang , Di Xiao , Ting Cao

Moir\'e lattices have served as the ideal quantum simulation platform for exploring novel physics due to the flat electronic bands resulting from the long wavelength moir\'e potentials. However, the large sizes of this type of system…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-12 Shengguo Yang , Jiaxin Chen , Chao-Fei Liu , Mingxing Chen