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Localization of charge carriers in monolayers (MLs) of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) dramatically increases spin and valley coherence times, and, by analogy with other systems, the role of the hyperfine interaction should enhance.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-16 I. D. Avdeev , D. S. Smirnov

We apply a multiscale modeling approach to study lattice reconstruction in marginally twisted bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD). For this, we develop DFT-parametrized interpolation formulae for interlayer adhesion energies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-21 V. V. Enaldiev , V. Zólyomi , C. Yelgel , S. J. Magorrian , V. I. Fal'ko

2D layered materials have recently attracted tremendous interest due to their fascinating properties and potential applications. The interlayer interactions are much weaker than the intralayer bonds, allowing the as-synthesized materials to…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-04-21 Xin Luo , Chunxiao Cong , Xin Lu , Ting Yu , Qihua Xiong , Su Ying Quek

Turbostratic multilayer graphene, composed of randomly twisted and stacked graphene sheets, offers a naturally disordered yet tunable platform for exploring moir\'e physics beyond tedious artificial stacking. Using scanning tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Mona Garg , Ankit Kumar , Deepti Rana , Anmol Arya , Aswini R , Umesh Waghmare , G. U. Kulkarni , Goutam Sheet

Twisted bilayer two-dimensional transition-metal dichalgocenides (TMDCs) exhibit a range of novel phenomena such as the formation of moir\'e excitons and strongly correlated phases. The coupling between the layers is crucial for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-27 Eileen Schneider , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Janina Maultzsch

Large scale two-dimensional (2D) moir\'e superlattices are driving a revolution in designer quantum materials. The electronic interactions in these superlattices, strongly dependent on the periodicity and symmetry of the moir\'e pattern,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 M. Kögl , P. Soubelet , M. Brotons-Gisbert , A. V. Stier , B. D. Gerardot , J. J. Finley

Local strain engineering is an exciting approach to tune the optoelectronic properties of materials. Two dimensional (2D) materials such as 2D transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are particularly well suited for this purpose because…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-11 Ahmed Raza Khan , Teng Lu , Wendi Ma , Yuerui Lu , Yun Liu

Moir\'e superlattices formed from twisting trilayers of graphene are an ideal model for studying electronic correlation, and offer several advantages over bilayer analogues, including more robust and tunable superconductivity and a wide…

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) hold relevance for spin-triplet superconducting phases due to their inherent Ising spin-orbit coupling, but the majority of studies have so far focused on oversimplified models. In this work, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-30 Florian Kayatz , Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Jorge Cayao

Combining atomically-thin van der Waals materials into heterostructures provides a powerful path towards the creation of designer electronic devices. The interaction strength between neighboring layers, most easily controlled through their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-27 Matthew Yankowitz , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , Pablo San-Jose , Brian J. LeRoy

Twisted bilayer systems host a wealth of emergent phenomena, such as flat-band superconductivity, ferromagnetism, and ferroelectricity, arising from moir\'e superlattices and unconventional interlayer coupling. Despite their central role,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 A. Nakamura , Y. Chiashi , T. Shimojima , Y. Tanaka , S. Akatsuka , M. Sakano , S. Masubuchi , T. Machida , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , K. Ishizaka

Among two-dimensional (2D) materials, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) stand out for their remarkable electronic, optical, and chemical properties. In addition to being variable bandgap semiconductor materials, the atomic thinness…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-04 Md. Jobayer Aziz , Md Akibul Islam , Md. Rezwanul Karim , Arafat Ahmed Bhuiyan

Functionalities in crystalline materials are determined by 3-dimensional collective interactions of atoms. The confinement of dimensionality in condensed matter provides an exotic research direction to understand the interaction of atoms,…

Recent experiments have realized a twisted bilayer-like optical potential for ultra-cold atoms, which in contrast to solid-state set ups may allow for an arbitrary ratio between the inter- and intra-layer couplings. For commensurate Moir\'e…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-04-04 Ganesh C. Paul , Patrik Recher , Luis Santos

We argue that the relative thermal conductance between interfaces with different morphologies is controlled by crystal structure through $M_{min}/M_c > 1$, the ratio between the {\it minimum mode} count on either side $M_{min}$, and the…

Laser excitation has emerged as an effective tool for probing microscopic interactions and manipulating phases of matter. Among charge density wave (CDW) materials, 1T-TaS2 has garnered significant attention due to its diverse stacking…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-26 Jin Zhang , Yang Yang , Jia Zhang , Mengxue Guan , Jiyu Xu , Kun Yang , Xinghua Shi , Sheng Meng

Interlayer coupling is strongly implicated in the complex electronic properties of 1$T$-TaS$_2$ , but the interplay between this and electronic correlations remains unresolved. Here, we employ angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy…

We have performed Density Functional Theory (DFT) based calculations to investigate the effects of stacking patterns on the electronic and magnetic properties of several Nitride MXenes. MXenes, a relatively new addition to the family of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-28 Himangshu Sekhar Sarmah , Subhradip Ghosh

Twisted multilayers of two-dimensional (2D) materials are an increasingly important platform for investigating quantum phases of matter, and in particular, strongly correlated electrons. The moir\'e pattern introduced by the relative twist…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-11 Mattia Angeli , Gabriel R. Schleder , Efthimios Kaxiras

Van der Waals heterostructures based on TMDC semiconducting materials have emerged as promising materials due to their spin-valley properties efficiently contrived by the stacking-twist angle. The twist angle drastically alters the…