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Flat bands in moir\'e superlattices provide a fertile ground for correlated and topological phases, governed by their quantum geometric properties. While the valley-based paradigm captures key features in select materials, it breaks down in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Xiaoting Zhou , Yi-Chun Hung , Arun Bansil

Inter-cell and/or interlayer coupling in Moire superlattices can generate flatbands and collective eigenmodes that enable emergent physical phenomena, motivating extensive exploration of Moire-inspired photonic devices. However, the…

The existence of flat bands is generally thought to be physically possible only for dimensions larger than one. However, by exciting a system with different orthogonal states this condition can be reformulated. In this work, we demonstrate…

Optics · Physics 2019-07-10 Gabriel Cáceres-Aravena , Rodrigo A. Vicencio

Flatbands play an important role in correlated quantum matter and have novel applications in photonic lattices. Synthetic magnetic fields and destructive interference in lattices are traditionally used to obtain flatbands. However, such…

Predicting the fate of an interacting system in the limit where the electronic bandwidth is quenched is often highly non-trivial. The complex interplay between interactions and quantum fluctuations driven by the band geometry can drive…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-02 Johannes S. Hofmann , Erez Berg , Debanjan Chowdhury

Flat bands in lattice models have provided useful platforms for studying strong correlation and topological physics. Recently, honeycomb superlattices have been shown to host flat bands that persist in the presence of local perturbations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-15 Zihao Qi , Eric Bobrow , Yi Li

Photonic flat bands are crucial for enabling strong localization of light and enhancing light-matter interactions, as well as tailoring the angular distribution of emission from photonic structures. These unique properties open pathways for…

Moir\'e superlattices in van der Waals heterostructures provide a tunable platform to study emergent properties that are absent in the natural crystal form. Twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TB-TMDs) can host moir\'e flat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-27 En Li , Jin-Xin Hu , Xuemeng Feng , Zishu Zhou , Liheng An , Kam Tuen Law , Ning Wang , Nian Lin

Understanding the physics of turbulence is crucial for many applications, including weather, industry, and astrophysics. In the interstellar medium (ISM), supersonic turbulence plays a crucial role in controlling the gas density and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-15 Christoph Federrath , Ralf S. Klessen , Luigi Iapichino , James R. Beattie

The moir\'e superlattice system provides an excellent platform for exploring various novel quantum phenomena. To theoretically tackle the diverse correlated and topological states emerging from moir\'e superlattices, one usually adopts an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Bo Xie , Jianqi Huang , Jianpeng Liu

Flat bands typically describe energy bands whose energy dispersion is entirely or almost entirely degenerate. One effective method to form flat bands is by constructing Moir\'e superlattices. Recently, there has been a shift in perspective…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-07 Linyang Zou , Hao Hu , Haotian Wu , Yang Long , Yidong Chong , Baile Zhang , Yu Luo

Low-energy moir\'e flat bands in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (tBG) have demonstrated incredible potentials to exhibit rich exotic quantum phenomena. Theoretically, the moir\'e flat bands of tBG are based on the extended structures,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-23 Long-Jing Yin , Ling-Hui Tong , Yue-Ying Zhou , Yang Zhang , Yuan Tian , Li Zhang , Lijie Zhang , Zhihui Qin

Moir\'e superlattices in twisted two-dimensional materials have generated tremendous excitement as a platform for achieving quantum properties on demand. However, the moir\'e pattern is highly sensitive to the interlayer atomic registry,…

Moir\'e materials, with superlattice periodicity many times the atomic length scale, have enabled the studies of strong electronic correlations and band topology with unprecedented tunability. However, nonvolatile control of the moir\'e…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-15 Kaifei Kang , Wenjin Zhao , Yihang Zeng , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jie Shan , Kin Fai Mak

We study the influence of strong spin-orbit interaction on the formation of flat bands in relaxed twisted bilayer WSe$_2$. Flat bands, well separated in energy, emerge at the band edges for twist angles ($\theta$) near 0$^{\circ}$ and…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-23 Sudipta Kundu , Mit H. Naik , H. R. Krishnamurthy , Manish Jain

Berry curvature physics and quantum geometric effects have been instrumental in advancing topological condensed matter physics in recent decades. Although Landau level-based flat bands and conventional 3D solids have been pivotal in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 Pratap Chandra Adak , Subhajit Sinha , Amit Agarwal , Mandar M. Deshmukh

The equilibrium amorphous solid state -- formed, e.g., by adequately randomly crosslinking the constituents of a macromolecular fluid -- is a heterogeneous state characterized by a universal distribution of particle localization lengths.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-01-04 Boli Zhou , Rafael Hipolito , Paul M. Goldbart

Two-dimensional heterostructures with layers of slightly different lattice vectors exhibit a new periodic structure known as moire lattices. Moire lattice formation provides a powerful new way to engineer the electronic structure of…

Control of structural couplings at the complex-oxide interfaces is a powerful platform for creating new ultrathin layers with electronic and magnetic properties unattainable in the bulk. However, with the capability to design and control…

We study the energy spectrum of moir\'e systems under a uniform magnetic field. The superlattice potential generally broadens Landau levels into Chern bands with finite bandwidth. However, we find that these Chern bands become flat at a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-13 Nisarga Paul , Philip J. D. Crowley , Trithep Devakul , Liang Fu