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The moir\'e superlattices formed by stacking 2D semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) with twisting angle or lattice mismatch have provided a versatile platform with unprecedented tunability for exploring many frontier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-07 Dawei Zhai , Hongyi Yu , Wang Yao

Twisted bilayer MoTe2 is a prototypical moire material in which long-wavelength superlattices amplify electron correlations, enabling a wealth of emergent quantum phases. To date, experimental efforts have focused primarily on small twist…

The low symmetry and anistropic lattice of 1T$'$ WTe$_2$ is responsible for the existence of parallel one-dimensional channels in the moir\'e patterns of twisted bilayers. This gives the opportunity to explore moir\'e physics of a different…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-11 Samuel J. Magorrian , Nicholas D. M. Hine

We study twisted bilayer WSe$_2$ within a continuum moir\'e model and introduce a method for treating finite geometries directly in the continuum framework, overcoming limitations associated with momentum-space formulations and Wannier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Yasser Saleem , Paweł Potasz , Anna Dyrdał , Björn Trauzettel , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

Twisted MoTe$_2$ hosts intriguing correlated quantum phenomena including the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect in twisted bilayer (t-BL) MoTe$_2$ near 3.7$^\circ$, which is sensitive to the twist angle and moir\'e superlattices.…

Two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures (HS) exhibit twist-angle ($\theta$) dependent interlayer charge transfer, driven by moir\'e potential that tunes the electronic band structure with varying $\theta$. Apart from the magic angles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-04 Vikas Arora , Pramoda K Nayak , Victor S Muthu , A K Sood

Two dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) have very interesting properties for optoelectronic devices. In this work we theoretically investigate and predict that superlattices comprised of MoS$_{2}$ and WSe$_{2}$ multilayers…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-10-29 Yong-Hong Zhao , Feng Yang , Jian Wang , Hong Guo , Wei Ji

We develop a theory for a qualitatively new type of disorder in condensed matter systems arising from local twist-angle fluctuations in two strongly coupled van der Waals monolayers twisted with respect to each other to create a flat band…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-06-30 Justin H. Wilson , Yixing Fu , S. Das Sarma , J. H. Pixley

Moir\'e phonons describe collective vibrations of a moir\'e superlattice produced by long-wavelength relative displacements of the constituent layers. Despite coming from the backfolding of the acoustic phonons of the individual layers,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Alejandro Ramos-Alonso , Hector Ochoa

Recent observations of superconductivity in twisted bilayer WSe$_2$ have extended the family of moir\'e superconductors beyond twisted graphene. In WSe$_2$ two different twist angles were studied, 3.65{\deg} and 5.0{\deg}, and two seemingly…

Lattice relaxation in twistronic bilayers with close lattice parameters and almost perfect crystallographic alignment of the layers results in the transformation of moir\'e pattern into a sequence of preferential stacking domains and domain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-30 M. A. Kaliteevsky , V. V. Enaldiev , V. I. Fal'ko

In stacks of two-dimensional crystals, mismatch of their lattice constants and misalignment of crystallographic axes lead to formation of moir\'{e} patterns. We show that moir\'{e} superlattice effects persist in twisted bilayer graphene…

The moir\'e pattern observed in stacked non-commensurate crystal lattices, such as hetero-bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides, produces a periodic modulation of their bandgap. Excitons subjected to this potential landscape exhibit…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-09-08 I. R. Lavor , D. R. da Costa , L. Covaci , M. V. Milošević , F. M. Peeters , A. Chaves

The discovery of quantized Chern numbers in twisted transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) homobilayers,including 3.7{deg} twisted MoTe2 and 1.23{deg} twisted WSe2,has emerged as a defining breakthrough in physics. A striking and unresolved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Ke Lv , Ya-Ning Ren , Lin He

Insulating, atomically flat transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) like WSe2 are ideal substrates for probing intrinsic graphene properties. Conventionally, their influence on graphene's band structure is assumed negligible, particularly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Chi Zhang , Shihao Zhang , Mengmeng Zhang , Lin He , Qi Zheng

Twisting bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) gives rise to a periodic moir\'{e} potential resulting in flat electronic bands with localized wavefunctions and enhanced correlation effects. In this work, scanning tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Laurent Molino , Leena Aggarwal , Indrajit Maity , Ryan Plumadore , Johannes Lischner , Adina Luican-Mayer

Emergent quantum phases driven by electronic interactions can manifest in materials with narrowly dispersing, i.e. "flat", energy bands. Recently, flat bands have been realized in a variety of graphene-based heterostructures using the…

Twisted bilayer systems with discrete magic angles, such as twisted bilayer graphene featuring moir\'{e} superlattices, provide a versatile platform for exploring novel physical properties. Here, we discover a class of superflat bands in…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-31 Hongfei Wang , Shaojie Ma , Shuang Zhang , Dangyuan Lei

Atomically thin moir\'e materials behave like elastic membranes where at very small twist angles, the van der Waals adhesion energy much exceeds the strain energy. In this ``marginal twist" regime, regions with low adhesion energy expand,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-26 Christophe De Beule , Gayani N. Pallewela , Mohammed M. Al Ezzi , Liangtao Peng , E. J. Mele , Shaffique Adam

We establish low-temperature resonant inelastic light scattering (RILS) spectroscopy as a tool to probe the formation of a series of moir\'e-bands in twisted WSe_{2} bilayers by accessing collective intermoir\'e-band excitations (IMBE). We…