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Wigner crystal, as the most fundamental exemplification where the many-body interaction forges the electrons into a solid, experiences an intriguing quantum melting where diverse intermediate phases are predicted to emerge near the quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-07 Zhongjie Wang , Meng Zhao , Lu Liu , Chunzheng Wang , Fang Yang , Hua Wu , Chunlei Gao

Moir\'e patterns of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterobilayers have proven to be an ideal platform to host unusual correlated electronic phases, emerging magnetism, and correlated exciton physics. While the existence of novel…

Van der Waals moir\'e materials have emerged as a highly controllable platform to study the electronic correlation phenomena. In particular, robust correlated insulating states have recently been discovered at both integer and fractional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-30 Tingxin Li , Jiacheng Zhu , Yanhao Tang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Veit Elser , Jie Shan , Kin Fai Mak

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

The rapidly growing class of atomically thin and tunable van der Waals materials is intensely investigated both in the context of fundamental science and for new technologies. There is in this connection a widespread need for new ways to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Shanshan Ding , Jose Antonio Valerrama Botia , Aleksi Julku , Zhigang Wu , G. M. Bruun

Twisted heterostructures of van der Waals materials have received much attention for their many remarkable properties. Here, we present a comprehensive theory of the long-range ordered magnetic phases of twisted bilayer $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-20 Muhammad Akram , Jesse Kapeghian , Jyotirish Das , Roser Valenti , Antia S. Botana , Onur Erten

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

The competition between Coulomb repulsion and kinetic energy in correlated systems can allow electrons to crystallize into Wigner solids. Despite researches across diverse two-dimensional Wigner platforms, the microscopic melting processes…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-06 Chaofei Liu , Jianwang Zhou , Wenao Liao , Zeyu Jiang , Chao Zhang , Tingfei Guo , Tianyou Zhai , Wenhao Zhang , Ying-Shuang Fu , Qi-Kun Xue

Generalized Wigner crystals (GWC) on triangular moir\'e superlattices, formed from stacking two layers of transition metal chalcogenides, have been observed at multiple fractional fillings [Nature 587, 214 - 218 (2020), Nat. Phys. 17, 715 -…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-01 Aman Kumar , Cyprian Lewandowski , Hitesh J. Changlani

Engineering moir\'e superlattices in van der Waals heterostructures provides fundamental control over emergent electronic, structural, and optical properties allowing to affect topological and correlated phenomena. This control is achieved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Dongdong An , Tao Zhang , Qiaoling Xu , Hailing Guo , Majeed Ur Rehman , Dante M. Kennes , Angel Rubio , Lei Wang , Lede Xian

Twisted magnetic van der Waals (vdW) materials offer a promising route for multiferroic engineering, yet modeling large-scale moir\'e superlattices remains challenging. Leveraging a newly developed SpinGNN++ framework that effectively…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-24 Haiyan Zhu , Hongyu Yu , Weiqin Zhu , Guoliang Yu , Changsong Xu , Hongjun Xiang

In van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures formed by stacking two monolayer semiconductors, lattice mismatch or rotational misalignment introduces an in-plane moir\'e superlattice. While it is widely recognized that a moir\'e superlattice can…

Moir\'e engineering in atomically thin van der Waals heterostructures creates artificial quantum materials with designer properties. We solve the many-body problem of interacting electrons confined to a moir\'e superlattice potential…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-28 Di Luo , Aidan P. Reddy , Trithep Devakul , Liang Fu

Moir\'e superlattices from stacks of van der Waals materials offer an exciting arena in the fields of condensed matter physics and materials science. Typically, these moir\'e superlattices consist of materials with identical or similar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-16 Yusen Ye , Jimin Qian , Xiao-Wei Zhang , Chong Wang , Di Xiao , Ting Cao

Moir\'e superlattices in the twisted bilayer graphene provide an unprecedented platform to investigate a wide range of exotic quantum phenomena. Recently, the twist degree of freedom has been introduced into various classical wave systems,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Weixuan Zhang , Deyuan Zou , Qingsong Pei , Wenjing He , Houjun Sun , Xiangdong Zhang

Long-range Coulomb forces give rise to correlated insulating states when charge particles populate a moir\'{e} superlattice at certain fractional filling factors. Such behavior is characterized by a broken translation symmetry wherein…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-13 Junghwan Kim , Hanan Dery , Dinh Van Tuan

The existence of Wigner crystallization, one of the most significant hallmarks of strong electron correlations, has to date only been definitively observed in two-dimensional systems. In one-dimensional (1D) quantum wires Wigner crystals…

Recently, moir\'e superlattices have been found on the surface of topological insulators (TI) due to the rotational misalignment of topmost layers. In this work, we study the effects of moir\'e superlattices on the topological surface…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-05-03 Taige Wang , Noah F. Q. Yuan , Liang Fu

Recent discoveries on Mott insulating and unconventional superconducting states in twisted bilayer graphene with Moir\'e superlattices have reshaped the landscape of ''twistronics'' and paved the way for developing high-temperature…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-12-13 Mourad Oudich , Xianghong Kong , Tan Zhang , Chengwei Qiu , Yun Jing

The search for artificial topological superconductivity has been limited by the stringent conditions required for its emergence. As exemplified by the recent discoveries of various correlated electronic states in twisted van der Waals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-14 Shawulienu Kezilebieke , Viliam Vaňo , Md N. Huda , Markus Aapro , Somesh Chandra Ganguli , Peter Liljeroth , Jose L. Lado