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Control of the interlayer twist angle in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures enables one to engineer a quasiperiodic moir\'e superlattice of tunable length scale. In twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), the simple moir\'e…

Moir\'e patterns can lead to fundamentally new electronic behavior when formed between two atomic lattices slightly shifted with respect to each other. A solid is however not just characterized by the atomic lattice, but also by charge or…

Moir\'e patterns are common in Van der Waals heterostructures and can be used to apply periodic potentials to elementary excitations. We show that the optical absorption spectrum of transition metal dichalcogenide bilayers is profoundly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-06 Fengcheng Wu , Timothy Lovorn , A. H. MacDonald

Superlattice engineering provides the means to reshape the fabric felt by quasiparticles moving in a material. Here we argue that bandstructure engineering with superlattices can be pushed to the extreme limit by stacking gapped van der…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 Li-kun Shi , Jing Ma , Justin C. W. Song

Two-dimensional systems with flat bands support correlated phases such as superconductivity and charge fractionalization. While twisted moire systems like twisted bilayer graphene have revealed such states, they remain complex to control.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 Elias Andrade , Alejandro Jimeno-Pozo , Pierre A. Pantaleon , Francisco Guinea , Gerardo G. Naumis

Recent advances in van der Waals heterostructures have opened the new frontier of moir\'{e} physics, whereby tuning the interlayer twist angle or adjusting lattice parameter mismatch have led to a plethora of exotic phenomena such as…

Stacking monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides into a heterostructure with a finite twist-angle gives rise to artificial moir\'e superlattices with a tunable periodicity. As a consequence, excitons experience a periodic potential,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Samuel Brem , Christopher Linderälv , Paul Erhart , Ermin Malic

Moir\'e heterostructures provide a powerful framework for tailoring electronic band structures via controlled long-range periodic superlattice potentials. Beyond widely studied moir\'e-tailored flat bands, folded band structures can host…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-29 R. Ganser , M. P. T. Masilamani , B. Geldiyev , M. M. Hirschmann , A. Consiglio , J. Schusser , D. Di Sante , M. Ünzelmann , F. Reinert

Electronic properties of crystals can be manipulated using spatially periodic modulations. Long-wavelength, incommensurate modulations are of particular interest, exemplified recently by moir\'e patterned van der Waals (vdW)…

Layered materials that stack different lattice symmetries are rare in nature. Misfit layered chalcogenides, which combine square and hexagonal lattices of rocksalt monochalcogenides and transition-metal dichalcogenides, provide a platform…

We theoretically study the effect of magnetic moir\'e superlattice on the topological surface states by introducing a continuum model of Dirac electrons with a single Dirac cone moving in the time-reversal symmetry breaking periodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-15 Zhaochen Liu , Huan Wang , Jing Wang

Forming long wavelength moir\'e superlattices (MSL) at small-angle twist van der Waals (vdW) bilayers has been a key approach to creating moir\'e flat bands. The small-angle twist, however, leads to strong lattice reconstruction, causing…

Charge density waves (CDWs) with superconductivity, competing Fermi surface instabilities and collective orders, have captured much interest in two-dimensional van der Waals (vdW) materials. Understanding of CDW suppression mechanism, its…

Quantum materials with layered kagome structures have drawn considerable attention due to their unique lattice geometry, which gives rise to flat bands co-existing with Dirac-like dispersions. The interplay between strong Coulomb…

Moir\'e superlattices in van der Waals heterostructures provide a tunable platform to study emergent properties that are absent in the natural crystal form. Twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TB-TMDs) can host moir\'e flat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-27 En Li , Jin-Xin Hu , Xuemeng Feng , Zishu Zhou , Liheng An , Kam Tuen Law , Ning Wang , Nian Lin

Van der Waals layered materials, such as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), are an exciting class of materials with weak interlayer bonding which enables one to create van der Waals heterostructures (vdWH). Recent work has shown that…

We investigate excitons in stacked transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) layers under perpendicularly applied electric field, herein MoSe$_2$/WSe$_2$ van der Waals heterostructures. Band structures are obtained with density functional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-19 A. Chaves , J. G. Azadani , V. Ongun Özçelik , R. Grassi , T. Low

Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures are an emergent class of metamaterials comprised of vertically stacked two-dimensional (2D) building blocks, which provide us with a vast tool set to engineer their properties on top of the already rich…

TaTe$_4$, a metallic charge-density wave (CDW) material discovered decades ago, has attracted renewed attention due to its rich interesting properties such as pressure-induced superconductivity and candidate non-trivial topological phase.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-07 R. Z. Xu , X. Du , J. S. Zhou , X. Gu , Q. Q. Zhang , Y. D. Li , W. X. Zhao , F. W. Zheng , M. Arita , K. Shimada , T. K. Kim , C. Cacho , Y. F. Guo , Z. K. Liu , Y. L. Chen , L. X. Yang

Moir\'e superlattices in van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures have given rise to a number of emergent electronic phenomena due to the interplay between atomic structure and electron correlations. A lack of a simple way to characterize…