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Due to the large-period superlattices emerging in moire two-dimensional (2D) materials, electronic states in such systems exhibit low energy flat bands that can be used to simulate strongly correlated physics in a highly tunable setup.…

Stacking two-dimensional (2D) layered materials offers a powerful platform to engineer electronic and magnetic states. In general, the resulting states, such as Moir\'e magnetism, have a periodicity at the length scale of the Moir\'e unit…

A recent work by Zhao et al. [1] reports the realization of a synthetic Kondo lattice in a gate-tunable Moir\'e TMD bilayer system. The observation of a Kondo lattice is supported by a plateau (or dip, depending on filling) in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-14 Prathyush P. Poduval , Katharina Laubscher , Sankar Das Sarma

Moir\'e superlattices provide a compelling platform for exploring exotic correlated physics. Electronic interference within these systems often results in flat bands with localized electrons, which are typically described by effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Xianliang Zhou , Yifan Gao , Laiyuan Su , Z. F. Wang , Li Huang , Angel Rubio , Zhiwen Shi , Lede Xian

Moir\'e superlattices in twisted two-dimensional materials have generated tremendous excitement as a platform for achieving quantum properties on demand. However, the moir\'e pattern is highly sensitive to the interlayer atomic registry,…

Twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) has emerged as a promising platform to explore exotic electronic phases. However, the formation of moir\'e patterns in tBLG has thus far been confined to the introduction of twist angles between the layers.…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-10 Gabriel R. Schleder , Michele Pizzochero , Efthimios Kaxiras

Stacking two layers of graphene with a relative twist angle gives rise to moir\'e patterns, which can strongly modify electronic behavior and may lead to unconventional superconductivity. A synthetic version of twisted bilayers can be…

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

Moir\'e superlattices in van der Waals structures can be used to control the electronic properties of the material and lead to emergent correlated and topological phenomena. Its first demonstration in van der Waals magnets exhibited…

Moir\'e superlattices provide a powerful tool to engineer novel quantum phenomena in two-dimensional (2D) heterostructures, where the interactions between the atomically thin layers qualitatively change the electronic band structure of the…

The interplay of topological characteristics in real space and reciprocal space can lead to the emergence of unconventional topological phases. In this Letter, we implement a novel mechanism for generating higher-Chern flat bands on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-23 Yifei Guan , Oleg V. Yazyev , Alexander Kruchkov

Twistronics, which exploits moire modulation of lattice and electronic structures in twisted bilayers, has emerged as a powerful approach to engineer novel quantum states. Recent efforts have expanded beyond two dimensional van der Waals…

Twisted bilayers of two-dimensional semiconductors offer a versatile platform to engineer quantum states for charge carriers using moir\'e superlattice effects. Among the systems of recent interest are twistronic MoSe${}_{2}$/WSe${}_{2}$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-30 Isaac Soltero , Mikhail A. Kaliteevski , James G. McHugh , Vladimir V. Enaldiev , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

The discovery of superconductivity in twisted bilayer and twisted trilayer graphene has generated tremendous interest. The key feature of these systems is an interplay between interlayer coupling and a moir\'e superlattice that gives rise…

Quantum materials and phenomena have attracted great interest for their potential applications in next-generation microelectronics and quantum-information technologies. In one especially interesting class of quantum materials, moire…

Twistronics, the study of moir\'e superlattices of twisted bilayer 2D materials creating nontrivial physical effects, has recently revolutionized diverse subjects from materials to optoelectronics, nanophotonics, and beyond. Here, breaking…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-11 Vasu Dev , Yijie Shen

Bilayer graphene twisted at the angle of about 1.1{\deg} better known as magic angle, exhibits ultra-flat moir\'e superlattice bands that are a source of highly-tunable, exotic quantum phenomena. Such phenomena, like superconductivity,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-05 Giovanna Feraco , Wissem Boubaker , Petra Rudolf , Antonija Grubišić-Čabo

Symmetry considerations suggest that moire superlattices formed by twisted two-dimensional materials should preserve overall inversion symmetry. However, experiments consistently report robust ferroelectricity in systems such as twisted…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Di Fan , Changming Ke , Shi Liu

We develop a low-energy continuum model to describe the moir\'{e} physics of heterostructures, which is a generalization of the celebrated Bistritzer-MacDonald (BM) method [R. Bistritzer and A. H. MacDonald, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 David T. S. Perkins , Joseph J. Betouras

Artificially twisted heterostructures of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) offer unprecedented control over their electronic and optical properties via the spatial modulation of interlayer interactions and structural…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-25 Nikhil Tilak , Guohong Li , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Eva Y. Andrei