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Moir\'e heterobilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) emerge as an ideal system for simulating the single-band Hubbard model and interesting correlated phases have been observed in these systems. Nevertheless, the moir\'e bands in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Ying-Ming Xie , Cheng-Ping Zhang , Jin-Xin Hu , Kin Fai Mak , K. T. Law

Semiconductor moir\'e superlattices have been shown to host a wide array of interaction-driven ground states. However, twisted homobilayers have been difficult to study in the limit of large moir\'e wavelength, where interactions are most…

Ultraflat bands have already been detected in twisted bilayer graphene and twisted bilayer transition-metal dichalcogenides, which provide a platform to investigate strong correlations. In this paper, the electronic properties of twisted…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-05 Yonggang Li , Zhen Zhan , Shengjun Yuan

Two-dimensional multi-layer materials with an induced moir\'e pattern, either due to strain or relative twist between layers, provide a versatile platform for exploring strongly correlated and topological electronic phenomena. While these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-27 Mohammed M. Al Ezzi , Albert Zhu , Daniel Bennett , Daniel T. Larson , Efthimios Kaxiras

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…

It is widely known that the twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) shows flat bands at magic angles, which can be well described by the effective continuum model derived by Bistritzer and MacDonald (BM). We propose in this paper a similar twisted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-22 Y. Soeda , K. Asaga , T. Fukui

The moir\'e Hubbard model describes correlations in certain homobilayer twisted transition metal dichalcogenides. Using exact diagonalization and density matrix renormalization group methods, we find magnetic Mott insulating and metallic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-15 Alexander Wietek , Jie Wang , Jiawei Zang , Jennifer Cano , Antoine Georges , Andrew Millis

Mott-Hubbard and Hund electron correlations have been realized thus far in separate classes of materials. Here, we show that a single moir\'e homobilayer encompasses both kinds of physics in a controllable manner. We develop a microscopic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-26 Siheon Ryee , Tim O. Wehling

Moir\'e superlattices are generally assumed to act only at the interface where lattice mismatch or twist occurs. Here, we study charge transport in large-angle helical twisted trilayer graphene, where interlayer tunneling is strongly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Dohun Kim , Junsik Choe , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Gil Young Cho , Youngwook Kim

We develop an analytical theory for lattice relaxation in twisted moir\'e heterobilayers, accounting for lattice mismatch, twist, external biaxial heterostrain, and different elastic constants. Starting from continuum elasticity, we derive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Christophe De Beule , Yiyang Lai , Liangtao Peng , Daniel Bennett , Shaffique Adam

We fabricate a twisted trilayer graphene device with consecutive twist angles of 1.33 and 1.64 degrees, in which we electrostatically tune the electronic states from each of the two co-existing moir\'e superlattices and the interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-20 Wei Ren , Konstantin Davydov , Ziyan Zhu , Jaden Ma , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Efthimios Kaxiras , Mitchell Luskin , Ke Wang

Moir\'e superlattices in stacked 2D crystals are powerful platforms for engineering correlated and topological quantum phases, with twisted graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) as prominent examples. Their angle-sensitive…

In this letter, we demonstrate electric field-induced band modification of an asymmetrically twisted hBN/BLG/hBN supermoire lattice. Distinct from unaligned BLG/hBN systems, we observe regions in the density-displacement field (n-D) plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-07 Priya Tiwari , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Aveek Bid

Unlike the spin-1/2 fermions, the Lieb and Dice lattices both host triply-degenerate low-energy excitations. Here, we discuss Moir\'e structures involving twisted bilayers of these lattices, which are shown to exhibit a tunable number of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-05 Xiaoting Zhou , Yi-Chun Hung , Baokai Wang , Arun Bansil

We show that moir\'e bands of twisted homobilayers can be topologically nontrivial, and illustrate the tendency by studying valence band states in $\pm K$ valleys of twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides, in particular, bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 Fengcheng Wu , Timothy Lovorn , Emanuel Tutuc , Ivar Martin , A. H. MacDonald

Rotational misalignment or twisting of two mono-layers of graphene strongly influences its electronic properties. Structurally, twisting leads to large periodic supercell structures, which in turn can support intriguing strongly correlated…

Topological flat bands at the Fermi level offer a promising platform to study a variety of intriguing correlated phase of matter. Here we present band engineering in the twisted orbital-active bilayers with spin-orbit coupling. The symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-15 Huan Wang , Yadong Jiang , Zhaochen Liu , Jing Wang

Motivated by recent observation of the quantum spin Hall effect in monolayer germanene and twisted bilayer transition-metal-dichalcogenides (TMDs), we study the topological phases of moir\'e twisted bilayers with time-reversal symmetry and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Yi-Ming Wu , Daniel Shaffer , Zhengzhi Wu , Luiz H. Santos

The recent discovery of correlated insulator states and superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has paved the way to the experimental investigation of electronic correlations in tunable flat band systems realized in…

We investigate the electronic structure of the flat bands induced by moir\'e superlattices and electric fields in nearly aligned ABC trilayer graphene-boron nitride interfaces where Coulomb effects can lead to correlated gapped phases. Our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Bheema Lingam Chittari , Guorui Chen , Yuanbo Zhang , Feng Wang , Jeil Jung