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Twisted graphene bilayers provide a versatile platform to engineer metamaterials with novel emergent properties by exploiting the resulting geometric moir\'{e} superlattice. Such superlattices are known to host bulk valley currents at tiny…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 T. M. R. Wolf , J. L. Lado , G. Blatter , O. Zilberberg

The incommensurate stacking of multi-layered two-dimensional materials is a challenging problem from a theoretical perspective and an intriguing avenue for manipulating their physical properties. Here we present a multi-scale model to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Ziyan Zhu , Paul Cazeaux , Mitchell Luskin , Efthimios Kaxiras

Van der Waals heterostructures form a massive interdisciplinary research field, fueled by the rich material science opportunities presented by layer assembly of artificial solids with controlled composition, order and relative rotation of…

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) bare large Berry curvature hotspots readily exploitable for geometric band effects. Tailoring and enhancement of these features via strain is an active research direction. Here, we consider…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-08 Shahnaz Aas , Ceyhun Bulutay

Moir\'e semiconductors offer flat bands where Coulomb interactions and band topology intertwine, while interlayer coupling plays a central role in forming the moir\'e potential. However, limited interlayer coupling strength and the lack of…

Moir\'e superlattices of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterostructures give rise to rich excitonic phenomena associated with the interlayer twist angle and induced changes in the involved quantum states. Theoretical calculations of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-13 Sudipta Kundu , Tomer Amit , H. R. Krishnamurthy , Manish Jain , Sivan Refaely-Abramson

We report experimental and theoretical studies of MoTe$_2$-MoSe$_2$ heterobilayers with rigid moir\'e superlattices controlled by the twist angle. Using an effective continuum model that combines resonant interlayer electron tunneling with…

Two dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) have very interesting properties for optoelectronic devices. In this work we theoretically investigate and predict that superlattices comprised of MoS$_{2}$ and WSe$_{2}$ multilayers…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-10-29 Yong-Hong Zhao , Feng Yang , Jian Wang , Hong Guo , Wei Ji

The interplay between localized magnetic moments and itinerant electrons gives rise to exotic quantum states in condensed matter systems. Two-dimensional moire superlattices offer a powerful platform for engineering heavy fermion states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-17 Le Zhang , Wenqiang Zhou , Xinjie Fang , Zhen Zhan , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Yi-feng Yang , Shuigang Xu

Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs) are one of the most studied two-dimensional materials in the last 5-10 years due to their extremely interesting layer dependent properties. Despite the presence of vast research work on TMDs, the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 Kamalika Ghatak , Kyung Nam Kang , Eui-Hyeok Yang , Dibakar Datta

Twisted trilayer graphene hosts two moir\'e superlattices originating from two interfaces between graphene layers. However, the system is generally unstable to lattice relaxation at small twist angles and is expected to show a significantly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 Joonho Jang

Experimental demonstrations of tunable correlation effects in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene have put two-dimensional moir\'e quantum materials at the forefront of condensed-matter research. Other twisted few-layer graphitic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-27 Michael M. Scherer , Dante M. Kennes , Laura Classen

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…

We introduce helical twisted quadrilayer graphene (HTQG), four graphene sheets rotated by the same small angle, as a versatile and experimentally accessible platform for correlated topological matter. HTQG consists of three moir\'e…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-06 Manato Fujimoto , Naoto Nakatsuji , Ashvin Vishwanath , Patrick Ledwith

A twist between two systems offers the possibility to drastically change the underlying physical properties. To that end, we study the bandstructure of twisted moir\'e potentials in detail. At sets of commensurate twisting angles, the low…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-04-11 Dean Johnstone , Shanya Mishra , Zhaoxuan Zhu , Laurent Sanchez-Palencia

Fabricating van der Waals (vdW) bilayer heterostructures (BL-HS) by stacking the same or different two-dimensional (2D) layers, offers a unique physical system with rich electronic and optical properties. Twist-angle between component…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-17 Kha Tran , Junho Choi , Akshay Singh

We study the energetic stability and the local electronic structure of the general twisted trilayer graphene (TTG) with the top and bottom layers rotated with respect to the middle layer respectively by $\theta$ and $\theta'$. Approximate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Xianqing Lin , Cheng Li , Kelu Su , Jun Ni

The predicted formation of moire superlattices leading to confined excitonic states in heterostructures formed by stacking two lattice mismatched transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers was recently experimentally confirmed. Such…

In long-wavelength moir\'e superlattices of stacked transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), structural reconstruction ubiquitously occurs, which has reported to impact significantly their electronic properties. However, complete…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-28 Kai-Hui Li , Fei-Ping Xiao , Wen Guan , Yu-Long Xiao , Chang Xu , Jin-Ding Zhang , Chen-Fang Lin , Dong Li , Qing-Jun Tong , Si-Yu Li , An-Lian Pan

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…