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The study of twisted two-dimensional (2D) materials, where twisting layers create moir\'e superlattices, has opened new opportunities for investigating topological phases and strongly correlated physics. While systems such as twisted…

Twisted moir\'e superlattices hosting topological flat bands provide a platform to explore the interplay between topology and correlations. Here we investigate topological band structures in $\Gamma$-valley moir\'e systems based on…

Moir\'e lattices are a general feature of bilayer structures, where an additional periodic superstructure is generated by either lattice mismatch or from a twist angle. They have been shown to stabilise new ground states, including…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-17 Luke C. Rhodes , Dylan C. Houston , Olivia R. Armitage , Peter Wahl

The relative orientation (twist) of successive layers of stacked two-dimensional (2D) materials creates variations in the interlayer atomic registry. The variations often form a super lattice, called a moir\'e pattern, which can alter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Stephen Carr , Daniel Massatt , Mitchell Luskin , Efthimios Kaxiras

We propose an innovative quantum emulator based on Moire superlattices showing that, by employing periodical modulation on each lattice site, one can create tunable, artificial gauge fields with imprinting Peierls phases on the hopping…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-12-03 Ce Shang , Adel Abbout , Xiaoning Zang , Udo Schwingenschlogl , Aurelien Manchon

We propose a scheme to achieve breathing kagome moir\'e superlattices using three twisted layers of transition metal dichalcogenides. In this scheme, the top and bottom layers are twisted relative to the middle layer by small angles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Adrian Fedorko , Chao-Xing Liu , Zhen Bi

Recently, a moir\'e material has been proposed in which multiple domains of different topological phases appear in the moir\'e unit cell due to a large moir\'e modulation. Topological properties of such moir\'e materials may differ from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Ikuma Tateishi , Motoaki Hirayama

The marriage between a two-dimensional layered material (2DLM) and a complex transition metal oxide (TMO) results in a variety of physical and chemical phenomena that would not have been achieved in either material alone. Interesting recent…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-05-09 Kyeong Tae Kang , Jeongmin Park , Dongseok Suh , Woo Seok Choi

We develop a formalism that allows the study of correlations in space and time in both the superfluid and Mott insulating phases of the Bose-Hubbard Model. Specifically, we obtain a two particle irreducible effective action within the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-12-13 Matthew R. C. Fitzpatrick , Malcolm P. Kennett

Moir\'e lattices are aperiodic systems formed by a superposition of two periodic lattices with a relative rotational angle. In optics, the photonic moir\'e lattice has many appealing properties such as its ability to localize light, thus…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-02 Zixuan Gao , Zhenli Xu , Zhiguo Yang , Fangwei Ye

Understanding the nature of strongly correlated states in flat-band materials (such as moir\'e heterostructures) is at the forefront of both experimental and theoretical pursuits. While magnetotransport, scanning probe, and optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-05 Michał Papaj , Cyprian Lewandowski

Moir\'e superlattices of van der Waals heterostructures provide a powerful new way to engineer the electronic structures of two-dimensional (2D) materials. Many novel quantum phenomena have emerged in different moir\'e heterostructures,…

Two dimensional materials subject to long-wavelength modulations have emerged as novel platforms to study topological and correlated quantum phases. In this article, we develop a versatile and computationally inexpensive method to predict…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-03 Valentin Crépel , Jennifer Cano

The search for artificial topological superconductivity has been limited by the stringent conditions required for its emergence. As exemplified by the recent discoveries of various correlated electronic states in twisted van der Waals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-14 Shawulienu Kezilebieke , Viliam Vaňo , Md N. Huda , Markus Aapro , Somesh Chandra Ganguli , Peter Liljeroth , Jose L. Lado

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 common wisdom about quantum many-body systems is that emergent phases typically fall into either the Landau-Ginzburg paradigm or topological classifications. Experimentally realizing the intertwined emergence of spontaneous symmetry…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-07-04 Lei Chen , Bei-Bei Wang , Jianmin Yuan , Long Zhang , Jinsen Han , Yongqiang Li

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…

We discuss a two-dimensional system under the perturbation of a Moire potential, which takes the same geometry and lattice constant as the underlying lattices but mismatches up to relative rotation. Such a self-dual model belongs to the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-10-17 Biao Huang , W. Vincent Liu

The design of correlated materials challenges researchers to combine the maturing, high throughput framework of DFT-based materials design with the rapidly-developing first-principles theory for correlated electron systems. We review the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-05 Ran Adler , Chang-Jong Kang , Chuck-Hou Yee , Gabriel Kotliar

The supermoir\'e lattice, arising from the interference of multiple moir\'e patterns, dramatically reshapes the electronic band structure by introducing new minibands and modifying band dispersion. Concurrently, strong electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-11 Zekang Zhou , Cheng Shen , Kryštof Kolář , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Cyprian Lewandowski , Mitali Banerjee