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Twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ (tMoTe$_2$) has emerged as a robust platform for exploring correlated topological phases, notably supporting fractional Chern insulator (FCI) states at zero magnetic field across a wide range of twist angles. The…

The topological phases of graphene with spin-orbit coupling, an exchange field, and a staggered-sublattice potential determine the properties of the edge states of the zigzag nanoribbon. In the presence of the Hubbard interaction, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-13 Ma Luo

Two-dimensional higher-order topology is usually studied in (nearly) particle-hole symmetric models, so that an edge gap can be opened within the bulk one. But more often deviates the edge anticrossing even into the bulk, where corner…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Junjie Zeng , Chen Chen , Yafei Ren , Zheng Liu , Wei Ren , Zhenhua Qiao

Since the very recent discovery of unconventional superconductivity in twisted WSe$_2$ homobilayers at filling $\nu=-1$, considerable interest has arisen in revealing its mechanism. In this paper, we developed a three-band tight-binding…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-03 Chuyi Tuo , Ming-Rui Li , Zhengzhi Wu , Wen Sun , Hong Yao

Topological insulators, along with Chern insulators and Quantum Hall insulator phases, are considered as paradigms for symmetry protected topological phases of matter. This article reports the experimental realization of the time-reversal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 Priya Tiwari , Saurabh Kumar Srivastav , Sujay Ray , Tanmoy Das , Aveek Bid

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

We report the emergence of electronic edge states in time-periodically driven strained armchair terminated graphene nanoribbons. This is done by considering a short-pulse spatial-periodic strain field. Then, the tight-binding Hamiltonian of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-18 Pedro Roman-Taboada , Gerardo G. Naumis

Twisted bilayer graphene exhibits electronic properties that are highly correlated with the size and arrangement of moir\'e patterns. While rigid rotation of two layers creates the topology of moir\'e patterns, local rearrangements of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-18 Aditya Dey , Shoieb Ahmed Chowdhury , Tara Peña , Sobhit Singh , Stephen M. Wu , Hesam Askari

Topological materials are often characterized by unique edge states which are in turn used to detect different topological phases in experiments. Recently, with the discovery of various higher-order topological insulators, such spectral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Ze-Lin Kong , Zhi-Kang Lin , Jian-Hua Jiang

We investigate electronic transport in gapped bilayer graphene (gBLG) devices. For certain edge terminations -typically a combination of zigzag, armchair, and bearded types - we observe edge state conduction within the band gap, which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Jesús Arturo Sánchez-Sánchez , Thomas Stegmann

We report on the theoretical electronic spectra of twisted phosphorene bilayers exhibiting moir\'e patterns, as computed by means of a continuous approximation to the moir\'e superlattice Hamiltonian. Our model is constructed by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-23 Isaac Soltero , Jonathan Guerrero-Sánchez , Francisco Mireles , David A. Ruiz-Tijerina

Here, we report experimental evidence suggesting the emergence of robust, possibly chiral, edge states in artificially engineered multilayers composed of alternating nanometer-thick layers of nonmagnetic aluminum (Al) and ferromagnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-29 M. Belogolovskii , I. P. Nevirkovets

Twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ (tMoTe$_2$) is an emergent platform for exploring exotic quantum phases driven by the interplay between nontrivial band topology and strong electron correlations. Direct experimental access to its momentum-resolved…

Topological materials can host edge and corner states that are protected from disorder and material imperfections. In particular, the topological edge states of mechanical structures present unmatched opportunities for achieving robust…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-12 Marcelo Guzman , Xiaofei Guo , Corentin Coulais , David Carpentier , Denis Bartolo

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

The electric structure of twisted bilayer GeSe, which shows a rectangular moir\'{e} pattern, is analyzed using a $\bm{k}\cdot\bm{p}$ type effective continuum model. The effective model is constructed on the basis of the the local…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Manato Fujimoto , Toshikaze Kariyado

Topological materials hosting metallic edges characterized by integer quantized conductivity in an insulating bulk have revolutionized our understanding of transport in matter. The topological protection of these edge states is based on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 R. Canyellas , Chen Liu , R. Arouca , L. Eek , Guanyong Wang , Yin Yin , Dandan Guan , Yaoyi Li , Shiyong Wang , Hao Zheng , Canhua Liu , Jinfeng Jia , C. Morais Smith

Precise manipulation of the direction and re-direction of vibrational wave energy is a key demand in wave physics and engineering. We consider the paradigm of a finite frame-like structure and the requirement to channel energy away from…

Twisted van der Waals materials have risen as highly tunable platform for realizing unconventional superconductivity. Here we demonstrate how a topological superconducting state can be driven in a twisted graphene multilayer at a twist…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Maryam Khosravian , Elena Bascones , Jose L. Lado

We present a theoretical study of single-particle and many-body properties of twisted bilayer WSe$_2$. For single-particle physics, we calculate the band topological phase diagram and electron local density of states (LDOS), which are found…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-29 Haining Pan , Fengcheng Wu , Sankar Das Sarma