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Moir\'e superlattices in the twisted bilayer graphene provide an unprecedented platform to investigate a wide range of exotic quantum phenomena. Recently, the twist degree of freedom has been introduced into various classical wave systems,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Weixuan Zhang , Deyuan Zou , Qingsong Pei , Wenjing He , Houjun Sun , Xiangdong Zhang

We study the topological bands in twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides in an external magnetic field. We first focus on a paradigmatic model of WSe$_2$, which can be described in an adiabatic approximation as particles moving in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Kryštof Kolář , Kang Yang , Felix von Oppen , Christophe Mora

Twisted van der Waals heterostructures have recently been proposed as a condensed-matter platform for realizing controllable quantum models due to the low-energy moir\'e bands with specific charge distributions in moir\'e superlattices.…

Geometrical moir\'e patterns, generic for almost aligned bilayers of two-dimensional (2D) crystals with similar lattice structure but slightly different lattice constants, lead to zone folding and miniband formation for electronic states.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-01 David A. Ruiz-Tijerina , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

Moir\'e superlattices in twistronic heterostructures are a powerful tool for materials engineering. In marginally twisted (small misalignment angle, $\theta$) bilayers of nearly lattice-matched two-dimensional (2D) crystals moir\'e patterns…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 V. V. Enaldiev , F. Ferreira , J. G. McHugh , V. I. Fal'ko

Moir\'{e} superlattices in twisted bilayer graphene and transition-metal dichalcogenides have emerged as a powerful tool for engineering novel band structures and quantum phases of two-dimensional quantum materials. Here we investigate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-03-17 Xi-Wang Luo , Chuanwei Zhang

We study interlayer excitons in MoSe2/WSe2 heterobilayers, by combining lateral force microscopy and micro-photoluminescence spectroscopy. This allows us to correlate the spatial profile of the moir\'e superlattice with the distribution of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-21 L. Caussou , H. Moutaabbid , M. Bernard , F. Margaillan , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , C. Lagoin , F. Dubin , V. Voliotis

We investigate WSe$_2$-MoSe$_2$ heterobilayers with different twist angles $\theta \pm \delta$ between the two layers, by low-frequency Raman scattering. In sufficiently aligned samples with $\theta=0^\circ$, or $\theta=60^\circ$, and…

We report deterministic control over moir\'e superlattice interference pattern in twisted bilayer graphene by implementing designable device-level heterostrain with process-induced strain engineering, a widely used technique in industrial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-04 Tara Peña , Aditya Dey , Shoieb A. Chowdhury , Ahmad Azizimanesh , Wenhui Hou , Arfan Sewaket , Carla L. Watson , Hesam Askari , Stephen M. Wu

Stacked atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit fundamentally new physical properties compared to those of the individual layers. The twist angle between the layers plays a crucial role in tuning these properties.…

Motivated by recent experimental observations of opposite Chern numbers in $R$-type twisted MoTe$_2$ and WSe$_2$ homobilayers, we perform large-scale density-functional-theory (DFT) calculations with machine learning force fields to…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-21 Xiao-Wei Zhang , Chong Wang , Xiaoyu Liu , Yueyao Fan , Ting Cao , Di Xiao

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

Moir\'e materials with flat electronic bands provide a highly controllable quantum system for studies of strong-correlation physics and topology. In particular, angle-aligned heterobilayers of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-05 Yang Xu , Kaifei Kang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Kin Fai Mak , Jie Shan

Twistronic assembly of 2D materials employs the twist angle between adjacent layers as a tuning parameter for designing the electronic and optical properties of van der Waals heterostructures. Here, we study how interlayer hybridization,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-21 Fábio Ferreira , Samuel Magorrian , Vladimir Enaldiev , David Ruiz-Tijerina , Vladimir Fal'ko

Twisted bilayer graphene exhibits electronic properties that are highly correlated with the size and arrangement of moir\'e patterns. While rigid rotation of two layers creates the topology of moir\'e patterns, local rearrangements of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-18 Aditya Dey , Shoieb Ahmed Chowdhury , Tara Peña , Sobhit Singh , Stephen M. Wu , Hesam Askari

We develop a theoretical framework for probing moir\'e phonon modes using Raman spectroscopy, and illustrate it with the example of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG). These moir\'e phonons arise from interlayer sliding motion in twisted 2D…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-24 Vitor Dantas , Héctor Ochoa , Rafael M. Fernandes , Natalia B. Perkins

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…

Motivated by the recent discovery of superconductivity in twisted bilayer WSe$_2$, we analyze the correlated physics in this system in the framework of a continuum model for the moir\'e superlattice. Using the symmetries in a fine-tuned…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-09 Maine Christos , Pietro M. Bonetti , Mathias S. Scheurer

Transition metal dichalcogenide homobilayers unite two frontiers of quantum materials research: sliding ferroelectricity, arising from rhombohedral (R) stacking, and moir\'e quantum matter, emerging from small-angle twisting. The…

The recent observation of correlated phases in transition metal dichalcogenide moir\'e systems at integer and fractional filling promises new insight into metal-insulator transitions and the unusual states of matter that can emerge near…