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In this work, we reveal a curious type of moir\'e effect that selectively modifies the surface states of bulk crystal. We synthesize mixed-dimensional heterostructures consisting of a noble gas monolayer grow on the surface of bulk Bi(111),…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-10 Shuming Yu , Zhentao Fu , Dingkun Qin , Enting Li , Hao Zhong , Xingzhe Wang , Keming Zhao , Shangkun Mo , Qiang Wan , Yiwei Li , Jie Li , Jianxin Zhong , Hong Ding , Nan Xu

Twisted graphene bilayers provide a versatile platform to engineer metamaterials with novel emergent properties by exploiting the resulting geometric moir\'{e} superlattice. Such superlattices are known to host bulk valley currents at tiny…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 T. M. R. Wolf , J. L. Lado , G. Blatter , O. Zilberberg

Ferroelectricity and metallicity cannot coexist due to the screening effect of conducting electrons, and a large number of stable monolayers with 1T/1T$^{\prime}$ phase lack spontaneous polarization due to inversion symmetry. In this work,…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-26 Haohao Sheng , Zhong Fang , Zhijun Wang

According to the recent studies on sliding/moire ferroelectricity, most 2D van der Waals nonferroelectric monolayers can become ferroelectric via multilayer stacking. In this paper we propose that similar strategy can be used to induce…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-24 Yuxuan Sheng , Junwei Liu , Jia Zhang , Menghao Wu

In twisted transition metal dichalcogenides (tTMDs), atomic reconstruction gives rise to moir\'e domains with alternating ferroelectric polarization, whose domain size and overall electric dipole moment are tunable by an out-of-plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Wei Ren , Shiyu Guo , Daochen Long , Noah Friedman , Jingyuan Xian , David Li , Jack Tavakley , Jeongsoo Park , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ke Wang

Strong electron correlation and spin-orbit coupling (SOC) provide two non-trivial threads to condensed matter physics. When these two strands of physics come together, a plethora of quantum phenomena with novel topological order have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-26 Jiang-Xiazi Lin , Ya-Hui Zhang , Erin Morissette , Zhi Wang , Song Liu , Daniel Rhodes , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , James Hone , J. I. A. Li

Bilayer moir\'e structures have attracted significant attention recently due to their spatially modulated layer degrees of freedom. However, the layer-dependent transport mechanism in the moir\'e structures is still a problem to be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 Chao-Jie Ren , Zhao Gong , Hui-Ying Mu , Xing-Tao An , Wang Yao , Jian-Jun Liu

Topological polar textures in ferroelectrics have attracted significant interest for their potential for energy-efficient and high-density data storage and processing. Among these, polar merons and antimerons are predicted in strained and…

Twisted transition-metal dichalcogenides host highly tunable moir\'e potentials, flat bands, and correlated electronic phases, yet the role of disorder in shaping these emergent properties remains largely unresolved. Using scanning…

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…

Experimental demonstrations of tunable correlation effects in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene have put two-dimensional moir\'e quantum materials at the forefront of condensed-matter research. Other twisted few-layer graphitic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-27 Michael M. Scherer , Dante M. Kennes , Laura Classen

Two-dimensional (2D) moire systems based on twisted bilayer graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides provide a promising platform to investigate emergent phenomena driven by strong electron-electron interactions in partially-filled…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-28 Ya-Ning Ren , Hui-Ying Ren , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Lin He

Moir\'e engineering in two-dimensional van der Waals bilayer crystals has emerged as a flexible platform for controlling strongly correlated electron systems. The competition between valleys for the band extremum energy position in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-11 Sam Olin , Erekle Jmukhadze , Allan H. MacDonald , Wei-Cheng Lee

Twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ near two-degree twists has emerged as a platform for exotic correlated topological phases, including ferromagnetism and a non-Abelian fractional spin Hall insulator. Here we reveal the unexpected emergence of an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-16 Cheong-Eung Ahn , Donghae Seo , Gyeoul Lee , Youngwook Kim , Gil Young Cho

Magnetoelectric effects and their coupling to light helicity are important for both fundamental science and applications in sensing, communication, and data storage. Traditional approaches require complex device architectures, involving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-05 Eric Anderson , Heonjoon Park , Kaijie Yang , Jiaqi Cai , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Liang Fu , Ting Cao , Di Xiao , Xiaodong Xu

Moir\'e superlattices formed from transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have been shown to support a variety of quantum electronic phases that are highly tunable using applied electromagnetic fields. While the valley character of the…

We investigate the moir\'e band structures and the strong correlation effects in twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ for a wide range of twist angles, employing a combination of various techniques. Using large-scale first principles calculations, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-04 Cheng Xu , Jiangxu Li , Yong Xu , Zhen Bi , Yang Zhang

Moir\'e lattices have served as the ideal quantum simulation platform for exploring novel physics due to the flat electronic bands resulting from the long wavelength moir\'e potentials. However, the large sizes of this type of system…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-12 Shengguo Yang , Jiaxin Chen , Chao-Fei Liu , Mingxing Chen

The recent observation of the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect in moir\'e fractional Chern insulators provides an opportunity to investigate zero magnetic field anyons. To potentially realize non-Abelian anyons, one approach is to…

Recent experiments have observed possible spin- and valley-polarized insulators and spin-triplet superconductivity in twisted double bilayer graphene, a moire structure consisting of a pair of Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene. Besides the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-12 Yi-Ting Hsu , Fengcheng Wu , S. Das Sarma