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Electron correlation and topology are two central threads of modern condensed matter physics. Semiconductor moir\'e materials provide a highly tunable platform for studies of electron correlation. Correlation-driven phenomena, including the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Tingxin Li , Shengwei Jiang , Bowen Shen , Yang Zhang , Lizhong Li , Trithep Devakul , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Liang Fu , Jie Shan , Kin Fai Mak

The moir\'e pattern induced by lattice mismatch in transition-metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers causes the formation of flat bands, where interactions dominate the kinetic energy. At fractional fillings of the flat valence band, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-07 Yuting Tan , Pak Ki Henry Tsang , Vladimir Dobrosavljević , Louk Rademaker

Flat bands in moir\'e superlattices provide a fertile ground for correlated and topological phases, governed by their quantum geometric properties. While the valley-based paradigm captures key features in select materials, it breaks down in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Xiaoting Zhou , Yi-Chun Hung , Arun Bansil

Semiconducting two-dimensional materials and their heterostructures gained a lot of interest for applications as well as fundamental studies due to their rich optical properties. Assembly in van der Waals heterostacks can significantly…

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…

Emergent quantum phases driven by electronic interactions can manifest in materials with narrowly dispersing, i.e. "flat", energy bands. Recently, flat bands have been realized in a variety of graphene-based heterostructures using the…

The spectral properties of a non-Hermitian quasi-1D lattice in two of the possible dimerization configurations are investigated. Specifically, it focuses on a non-Hermitian diamond chain that presents a zero-energy flat band. The flat band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-19 C. Martínez-Strasser , M. A. J. Herrera , A. García-Etxarri , G. Palumbo , F. K. Kunst , D. Bercioux

Flexible long period moir\' e superlattices form in two-dimensional van der Waals crystals containing layers that differ slightly in lattice constant or orientation. In this Letter we show theoretically that isolated flat moir\' e bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-12 Fengcheng Wu , Timothy Lovorn , Emanuel Tutuc , A. H. MacDonald

We develop an analytical theory for lattice relaxation in twisted moir\'e heterobilayers, accounting for lattice mismatch, twist, external biaxial heterostrain, and different elastic constants. Starting from continuum elasticity, we derive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Christophe De Beule , Yiyang Lai , Liangtao Peng , Daniel Bennett , Shaffique Adam

In twisted bilayers of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), a combination of structural rippling and electronic coupling gives rise to periodic moir\'e potentials that can confine charged and neutral excitations. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-04 Sara Shabani , Dorri Halbertal , Wenjing Wu , Mingxing Chen , Song Liu , James Hone , Wang Yao , Dmitri N. Basov , Xiaoyang Zhu , Abhay N. Pasupathy

The presence of periodic modulation in graphene leads to a reconstruction of the band structure and formation of minibands. In an external uniform magnetic field, a fractal energy spectrum called Hofstadter butterfly is formed. Particularly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Alina Mreńca-Kolasińska , Szu-Chao Chen , Ming-Hao Liu

We perform an analytical study of the energy and entanglement spectrum of non-interacting fermionic bilayer honeycomb lattices in the presence of trigonal warping in the energy spectrum, on-site energy difference and uniform magnetic field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Z. Moradi , J. Abouie

Moir\'e structures in van der Waals heterostructures lead to emergent phenomena including superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene and optically accessible strongly-correlated electron states in transition metal dichalcogenide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-17 Liam P. McDonnell , Jacob J. S. Viner , Pasqual Rivera , Antonio Cammarata , Huseyin S. Sen , Xiaodong Xu , David C. Smith

Twisted bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have revealed a rich exciton landscape including hybrid excitons and spatially trapped moir\'e excitons that dominate the optical response of the material. Recent studies have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Joakim Hagel , Samuel Brem , Johannes Abelardo Pineiro , Ermin Malic

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) hosts a multitude of strongly correlated states at partial fillings of its flat bands. In a magnetic field, these flat bands further evolve into a unique Hofstadter spectrum renormalized by…

We investigate the electronic spectra and quantum Hall effect in twisted bilayer graphenes with various rotation angles under magnetic fields, using a model rigorously including the interlayer interaction. We describe the spectral evolution…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-31 Pilkyung Moon , Mikito Koshino

We calculate the energy bands for graphene monolayers when electrons move through a periodic electrostatic potential in the presence of a uniform perpendicular magnetic field. We clearly demonstrate the quantum fractal nature of the energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Godfrey Gumbs , Andrii Iurov , Danhong Huang , Liubov Zhemchuzhna

In this work we analyze a class of Moir\'e models consisting of an active honeycomb monolayer such as graphene or a hexagonal transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) on top of a substrate, in which the K and K' valleys of the active layer are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Abhijat Sarma

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

Combining monolayers of different two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors into heterostructures opens up a wealth of possibilities for novel electronic and optical functionalities. Exploiting them hinges on accurate measurements of the band…