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Moir\'e effects in twisted or lattice-incommensurate vertical assemblies of two-dimensional crystals give rise to a new class of quantum materials with rich transport and optical phenomena, including correlated electron physics in flat…

Twisted van der Waals (vdW) materials have emerged as a promising platform for exploring exotic quantum phenomena and engineering novel material properties in two dimensions, potentially revolutionizing developments in spintronics. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Fengjun Zhuo , Zhenyu Dai , Kai Chang , Hongxin Yang , Zhenxiang Cheng

Skyrmions are topological defects belonging to nontrivial homotopy classes in particle theory. Their remarkably stable topology has recently been observed in electromagnetic waves. For the evanescent fields near a surface, this has been…

Moir\'e magnetism, parallel with moir\'e electronics that has led to novel correlated and topological electronic states, emerges as a new venue to design and control exotic magnetic phases in twisted magnetic two-dimensional(2D) crystals.…

Recent proposals for the realization of time-reversal symmetry breaking and topological superconductivity in twisted nodal superconductors have led to a surge of theoretical and experimental studies of these systems, marking one of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-20 J. H. Pixley , Pavel A. Volkov

Second-order superlattices form when moir\'e superlattices of similar periodicities interfere with each other, leading to even larger superlattice periodicities. These crystalline structures have been engineered utilizing two-dimensional…

Skyrmions are promising for the next generation of spintronic and magnonic devices, but their zero-field stability and controlled nucleation through chiral interactions remain challenging. In this theoretical study, we explore the potential…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-13 Bilal Jabakhanji , Doried Ghader

Topological magnetism, characterized by topologically protected spin textures, offers rich physics and transformative prospects for spintronics. However, its stabilization typically demands external magnetic fields, preventing…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-06 Zhonglin He , Kaiying Dou , Wenhui Du , Ying Dai , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal , Yandong Ma

Twisted two-dimensional (2D) layered materials exhibit many novel and unique phenomena, such as insulation and superconductivity transition, and superlubricity. However, the effect of twisting on these phenomena remains unclear. A key…

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Structured light offers a promising solution for the increasing data demands of modern optical networks, opening up new degrees of freedom that can be leveraged for greater channel capacity and more bits per photon. However, its…

Topological transitions are fundamental phenomena in electronics, photonics, and quantum technologies. However, the scalability and tunability of Topological transitions in these systems have still been constrained by their material…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-18 Bo Tian , Xi Zhang , Ruitao Wu , Yuquan Zhang , Luping Du , Xiaocong Yuan

Moir\'e patterns made of two-dimensional (2D) materials represent highly tunable electronic Hamiltonians, allowing a wide range of quantum phases to emerge in a single material. Current modeling techniques for moir\'e electrons requires…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-05 Diyi Liu , Mitchell Luskin , Stephen Carr

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

A low twist angle between the two stacked crystal networks in bilayer graphene enables self-organized lattice reconstruction with the formation of a periodic domain. This superlattice modulates the vibrational and electronic structures,…

Moir\'e superlattices in two-dimensional materials provide a versatile platform to explore strongly correlated and topological phases. This work presents a practical theoretical workflow for studying the correlated and topological states in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-09 Xin Lu , Bo Xie , Jianpeng Liu

Twisted light carries a non-zero orbital angular momentum, that can be transferred from light to electrons and particles ranging from nanometers to micrometers. Up to now, the interplay between twisted light with dipolar systems has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 Lingyuan Gao , Sergei Prokhorenko , Yousra Nahas , Laurent Bellaiche

Twisted two-dimensional bi-layers offer exquisite control on the electronic bandstructure through the interlayer rotation and coupling, enabling magic-angle flat-band superconductivity and moir\'e excitons. Here, we demonstrate how…

Superoscillation (SO) wavefunctions, that locally oscillate much faster than its fastest Fourier component, in light waves have enhanced optical technologies beyond diffraction limits, but never been controlled into 2D periodic lattices.…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-01 Xin Ma , Hao Zhang , Wenjun Wei , Yuping Tai , Xinzhong Li , Yijie Shen

The skyrmion, which is characterised by a topological integer, is a structure that is topologically stable against local disturbances. The huge potential of skyrmions for use in magnetic storage systems has drawn considerable research…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-26 Jie Zhu , Sheng Liu , Yong-Sheng Zhang

We demonstrate that the concept of moir\'e flat bands can be generalized to achieve electronic band engineering in all three spatial dimensions. For many two dimensional van der Waals materials, twisting two adjacent layers with respect to…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-05 Lede Xian , Ammon Fischer , Martin Claassen , Jin Zhang , Angel Rubio , Dante M. Kennes