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Moir\'e superlattices in twisted bilayers enable profound reconstructions of the electronic bandstructure, giving rise to correlated states with remarkable tunability. Extending this paradigm to van der Waals magnets, twisting creates…

We study the magnetic response of buckled honeycomb-lattice materials. The buckling breaks the sublattice symmetry, enhances the spin-orbit coupling, and allows the tuning of a topological quantum phase transition. As a result, there are…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-02 Shengyuan A. Yang , Hui Pan , Fan Zhang

With the help of the Berry curvature and the first Chern number $($$\textit{C}_1$$)$, we both analytically and numerically investigate and thus simulate artificial magnetic monopoles formed in parameter space of the Hamiltonian of a driven…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Ze-Lin Zhang , Ming-Feng Chen , Huai-Zhi Wu , Zhen-Biao Yang

Highly uniform and ordered nanodot arrays are crucial for high performance quantum optoelectronics including new semiconductor lasers and single photon emitters, and for synthesizing artificial lattices of interacting quasiparticles towards…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 Hongyi Yu , Gui-Bin Liu , Jianju Tang , Xiaodong Xu , Wang Yao

Spin Berry curvature characterizes the band topology as the spin counterpart of Berry curvature and is crucial in generating novel spintronics functionalities. By breaking the crystalline inversion symmetry, the spin Berry curvature is…

We predict an in-plane, or hidden, Berry curvature (BC) for magnons in electrically insulating quasi-2D magnets and demonstrate that the hidden magnon Berry curvature (HMBC) gives rise to a previously unrecognized form of vertical,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Atul Rathor , Sahanawaj Akhtar , Arijit Haldar

Multilayer moir\'e materials can exhibit topological electronic features yet are inherently quasiperiodic -- leading to wave function interference whose Anderson-localizing tendency can be mitigated by topology. We consider a quasiperiodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Xinghai Zhang , Justin H. Wilson , Matthew S. Foster

We propose two thermo-spintronic responses in proximity induced superconductors with spin-orbit coupled band - spin Nernst effect and thermal Edelstein effect stemming respectively from momentum-space and mixed superconducting Berry…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-25 Zhen-Cheng Liao , Cong Xiao , Zhi Wang , Qian Niu

Higher-pseudospin fermions, associated with multiple band-crossings in topological semimetals, are the condensed matter analogues of higher-spin fermions in high-energy physics. In this paper, we demonstrate that analyzing the response of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Sajid Sekh , Ipsita Mandal

The toolbox quantities used for manipulating the flow of light include typically amplitude, phase, and polarization. Pseudospins, such as those arising from valley degrees of freedom in photonic structures, have recently emerged as an…

Frustrated bilayer quantum magnets have attracted attention as flat-band spin systems with unconventional thermodynamic properties. We study the low-temperature properties of a frustrated honeycomb-lattice bilayer spin-$\frac{1}{2}$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-26 Taras Krokhmalskii , Vasyl Baliha , Oleg Derzhko , Jörg Schulenburg , Johannes Richter

The moir\'e superlattice formed by ABC stacked trilayer graphene aligned with a hexagonal boron nitride substrate (TG/h-BN) provides an interesting system where both the bandwidth and the topology can be tuned by an applied perpendicular…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-05 Ya-Hui Zhang , T. Senthil

We propose a general theory of anisotropic band flattening in moir\'e systems at the $\Gamma$ valley. For a two-dimensional semiconductor with a rectangular unit cell of $C_{2z}$ or mirror symmetries, we find that a larger effective mass…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-01 Huan Wang , Zhaochen Liu , Yadong Jiang , Jing Wang

Existing smart composite piezoelectric beam models in the literature mostly ignore the electro-magnetic interactions and adopt the linear elasticity theory. However, these interactions substantially change the controllability and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-21 Ahmet Ozkan Ozer

We present a comprehensive $1/S$ study of the field-induced dynamical properties of the nearest-neighbor $XXZ$ antiferromagnet on a honeycomb lattice using the formalism of the nonlinear spin-wave theory developed for this model. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-01-15 P. A. Maksimov , A. L. Chernyshev

We investigate how the Berry force (i.e. the pseudo-magnetic force operating on nuclei as induced by electronic degeneracy and spin-orbit coupling (SOC)) might modify a post-transition state bifurcation (PTSB) reaction path and affect…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-11-16 Zhen Tao , Tian Qiu , Joseph E. Subotnik

Moir\'e superlattices have emerged as a premier platform for simulating the Hubbard model, yet achieving high tunability in square-lattice systems remains a key challenge. We demonstrate that $\Gamma$-valley twisted square homobilayers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Rui Shi , Kejie Bao , Huan Wang , Jing Wang

Moir\'e engineering offers new pathways for manipulating emergent states in twisted layered materials and lattice-mismatched heterostructures. With the key role of the geometry of the underlying lattice in mind, here we introduce the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-17 Yi-Chun Hung , Xiaoting Zhou , Arun Bansil

We introduce a new class of moir\'e systems and materials based on monolayers with triangular lattices and low-energy states at the M points of the Brillouin zone. These M-point moir\'e materials are fundamentally distinct from those…

We investigate spin-valley instabilities and their connection to the reentrant superconducting states recently observed in the twisted bilayer dichalcogenide WSe$_2$ at a $5^o$ twist angle. Starting from an effective three-orbital faithful…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-21 Lauro B. Braz , Luis G. G. V. Dias da Silva