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A balanced description of ground and excited states is essential for the description of many chemical processes. However, few methods can handle cases where static correlation is present, and often these scale very unfavourably with system…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-05-08 Hugh G. A. Burton , Alex J. W. Thom

We study the collective excitation modes of the Chern insulator states in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene aligned with hexagonal boron nitride (TBG/BN) at odd integer fillings ($\nu$) of the flat bands. For the $1 \times 1$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 Xianqing Lin , Quan Zhou , Cheng Li , Jun Ni

Inspired by experiments on magic angle twisted bilayer graphene, we present a lattice mean-field model for the quantum anomalous Hall effect in a moir\'e setting. Our hopping model thus provides a simple route to a moir\'e Chern insulator…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-05 Ahmed Khalifa , Ganpathy Murthy , Ribhu K. Kaul

Many graphene moir\'e superlattices host narrow bands with non-zero valley Chern numbers. We provide analytical and numerical evidence for a robust spin and/or valley polarized insulator at total integer band filling in nearly flat bands of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-13 Cécile Repellin , Zhihuan Dong , Ya-Hui Zhang , T. Senthil

In magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG), the moir\'e superlattice potential gives rise to narrow electronic bands1 which support a multitude of many-body quantum phases. Further richness arises in the presence of a perpendicular…

Interaction-driven spontaneous symmetry breaking lies at the heart of many quantum phases of matter. In moir\'e systems, broken spin/valley 'flavour' symmetry in flat bands underlies the parent state out of which ultimately correlated and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-22 Jeong Min Park , Yuan Cao , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

In magic angle twisted bilayer graphene, electron-electron interactions play a central role resulting in correlated insulating states at certain integer fillings. Identifying the nature of these insulators is a central question and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-19 Nick Bultinck , Eslam Khalaf , Shang Liu , Shubhayu Chatterjee , Ashvin Vishwanath , Michael P. Zaletel

Many-body electron-electron interaction effects are theoretically considered in monolayer graphene from a continuum effective field-theoretic perspective by going beyond the standard leading-order perturbative renormalization group (RG)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-01 Edwin Barnes , E. H. Hwang , R. E. Throckmorton , S. Das Sarma

We study the atomic and electronic structures of the commensurate double moir\'{e} superlattices in fully relaxed twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) nearly aligned with the hexagonal boron nitride (BN). The single-particle effective Hamiltonian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-31 Xianqing Lin , Jun Ni

We study the extended Hubbard model (EHM) with both onsite Hubbard interaction and the intersite density-density interaction between nearest-neighbors using the standard Hartree mean-field approximation (MFA) on the Bethe lattice. We found…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-31 Aleksey Alekseev , Konrad Jerzy Kapcia

In quantum chemistry, obtaining a system's mean-field solution and incorporating electron correlation in a post Hartree-Fock (HF) manner comprise one of the standard protocols for ground-state calculations. In principle, this scheme can…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Hong-Zhou Ye , Troy Van Voorhis

We study localization driven solely by interparticle interactions in moir\'e lattice systems without intrinsic disorder or externally imposed quasiperiodic potentials. We consider a one-dimensional bilayer with incommensurate lattice…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-03 Yan-Hao Yang , Zhihao Xu , Lei Ying , Qizhong Zhu

We have studied a one dimensional Hubbard superlattice with different Coulomb correlations at alternating sites for a half-filled band. Mean field calculations based on the Hartree-Fock approximation together with a real space…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Jayeeta Chowdhury , S. N. Karmakar , Bibhas Bhattacharyya

We present a framework to characterize Mott insulating phases within the interacting one-body picture, focusing on the Hubbard diamond chain featuring both Hubbard interactions and spin-orbit coupling simulated within cellular dynamical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-05 Theo N. Dionne , Santiago Villodre , Mikel Iraola , Maia G. Vergniory

We study the ground state of a trapped Bose gas, starting from the full many-body Schr{\"o}dinger Hamiltonian, and derive the nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger energy functional in the limit of large particle number, when the interaction potential…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-09-25 Mathieu Lewin , Phan Thành Nam , Nicolas Rougerie

We study the Hubbard model with time-reversal invariant flux and spin-orbit coupling and position-dependent onsite energies on the kagome lattice, using numerical and analytical methods. In particular, we perform calculations using real…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-08 Irakli Titvinidze , Julian Legendre , Karyn Le Hur , Walter Hofstetter

A path integral ground state approach has been used to estimate the ground-state energy and structural properties of hydrogen fluoride molecules pinned to a one-dimensional lattice. In the simulations, the molecules are assumed to be rigid,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-08-10 Tapas Sahoo , Gautam Gangopadhyay

Interplay of strong correlation and flat topological band has been a central problem in moir\'e systems such as the magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG). Recent studies show that Mott-like states may still be possible in TBG despite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-02 Jing-Yu Zhao , Boran Zhou , Ya-Hui Zhang

Recent observations of quantum anomalous Hall effects in moir\'e systems have revealed the emergence of interaction-driven ferromagnetism with significant orbital contributions. To capture this physics, we extend the modern theory of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Xiaoyu Liu , Chong Wang , Haoran Chen , Xiao-Wei Zhang , Ting Cao , Di Xiao

Time-reversal symmetric topological insulator is a novel state of matter that a bulk-insulating state carries dissipationless spin transport along the surfaces, embedded by the $Z_2$ topological invariant. In the noninteracting limit, this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-12 Hsin-Hua Lai , Hsiang-Hsuan Hung