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Moir\'e transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) systems provide a tunable platform for studying electron-correlation driven quantum phases. Such phases have so far been found at rational fillings of the moir\'e superlattice, and it is…

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…

Recent experiments on the twisted transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) material, $\rm WSe_2/WS_2$, have observed insulating states at fractional occupancy of the moir\'e bands. Such states were conceived as generalized Wigner crystals…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-31 Bikash Padhi , R. Chitra , Philip W. Phillips

We develop parameters for the interlayer Kolmogorov-Crespi (KC) potential to study structural features of four transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs): MoS$_2$, WS$_2$, MoSe$_2$ and WSe$_2$. We also propose a mixing rule to extend the…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-26 Mit H. Naik , Indrajit Maity , Prabal K. Maiti , Manish Jain

The emergence of moir\'e materials, such as twisted transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), has created a fertile ground for discovering novel quantum phases of matter. However, solving many-electron problems in moir\'e systems presents…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-08 Di Luo , Timothy Zaklama , Liang Fu

The creation of moir\'e superlattices in twisted bilayers of two-dimensional crystals has been utilised to engineer quantum material properties in graphene and transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductors. Here, we examine the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-27 J. G. McHugh , V. V. Enaldiev , V. I. Fal'ko

Moir\'e superlattices of tunable wavelengths and the further developed moir\'e of moir\'e systems, by artificially assembling two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials as designed, have brought up a versatile toolbox to explore…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-23 Xiangbin Cai , Weibo Gao

Twisted magnetic van der Waals (vdW) materials offer a promising route for multiferroic engineering, yet modeling large-scale moir\'e superlattices remains challenging. Leveraging a newly developed SpinGNN++ framework that effectively…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-24 Haiyan Zhu , Hongyu Yu , Weiqin Zhu , Guoliang Yu , Changsong Xu , Hongjun Xiang

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) usually exist in two or more structural phases with different physical properties, and can be repeatedly switched between these phases via different stimuli, making them potentially…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-29 Priyanka Manchanda , Pankaj Kumar , Pratibha Dev

Two-dimensional moire superlattices have recently emerged as a fertile ground for creating novel electronic phases of matter with unprecedented control. Despite intensive efforts, theoretical investigation of correlated moire systems has…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-12 Yang Zhang , Hiroki Isobe , Liang Fu

Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are valuable as solid lubricants because of their layered structure, which allows for easy shearing along the basal planes. Using Density Functional Theory (DFT) we conducted a first-principles study…

One-dimensional (1D) moir\'e superlattices provide a new route to engineering reduced-dimensional electronic states in van der Waals materials, yet their electronic structure and microscopic origin remain largely unexplored. Here, we…

Moir\'e excitons are emergent optical excitations in 2D semiconductors with deep moir\'e superlattice potentials. While these excitations have been realized in several platforms, a system with dynamically tunable moir\'e potential to tailor…

An important step in understanding the exotic electronic, vibrational, and optical properties of the moir\'{e} lattices is the inclusion of the effects of structural relaxation of the un-relaxed moir\'{e} lattices. Here, we propose novel…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-10 Indrajit Maity , Prabal K. Maiti , H. R. Krishnamurthy , Manish Jain

The formation of interfacial moir\'e patterns from angular and/or lattice mismatch has become a powerful approach to engineer a range of quantum phenomena in van der Waals heterostructures. For long-lived and valley-polarized interlayer…

Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) van der Waals heterostructures (vdWHs) hold promise for high-performance electronics, but their large-scale synthesis remains limited by size constraints and alloying…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-26 Luneng Zhao , Hongsheng Liu , Yuan Chang , Xiaoran Shi , Jijun Zhao , Feng Ding , Junfeng Gao

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…

Moir\'e super-potentials in two-dimensional materials allow unprecedented control of the ratio between kinetic and interaction energy. By this, they pave the way to study a wide variety of strongly correlated physics under a new light. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-03 Amir Dalal , Jonathan Ruhman

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are a class of two-dimensional (2D) materials been widely studied for emerging electronic properties. In this work, we use computational simulations to examine the water adsorption on TMDs…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Siheng Li , Keyang Liu , Jiří Klimeš , Ji Chen

Twisted homobilayer transition metal dichalcogenides - specifically twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ and twisted bilayer WSe$_2$ - have recently emerged as a versatile platform for strongly correlated and topological phases of matter. These…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-10 Bohao Li , Wen-Xuan Qiu , Fengcheng Wu , A. H. MacDonald