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Moir\'e structures in van der Waals heterostructures lead to emergent phenomena including superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene and optically accessible strongly-correlated electron states in transition metal dichalcogenide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-17 Liam P. McDonnell , Jacob J. S. Viner , Pasqual Rivera , Antonio Cammarata , Huseyin S. Sen , Xiaodong Xu , David C. Smith

Moir\'e patterns of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterobilayers have proven to be an ideal platform to host unusual correlated electronic phases, emerging magnetism, and correlated exciton physics. While the existence of novel…

Moir\'e materials are artificial crystals formed at van der Waals heterojunctions that have emerged as a highly tunable platform to realize much of the rich quantum physics of electrons in atomic scale solids, also providing opportunities…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-24 Pawel Potasz , Nicolás Morales-Durán , Nai Chao Hu , Allan H. MacDonald

Moire superlattices of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayers have been shown to host correlated electronic states, which arises from the interplay of emergent moire potential and long-range Coulomb interactions. Here we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-28 Yang Zhang , Tongtong Liu , Liang Fu

Strain-induced lattice mismatch leads to moir\'{e} patterns in homobilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). We investigate the structural and electronic properties of such strained moir\'{e} patterns in TMD homobilayers. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-21 Sudipta Kundu , Indrajit Maity , Robin Bajaj , H. R. Krishnamurthy , Manish Jain

Moir\'e materials, typically confined to stacking atomically thin, two - dimensional (2D) layers such as graphene or transition metal dichalcogenides, have transformed our understanding of strongly correlated and topological quantum…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-09 Ilya Popov , Elena Besley

Engineering moir\'e superlattices in van der Waals heterostructures provides fundamental control over emergent electronic, structural, and optical properties allowing to affect topological and correlated phenomena. This control is achieved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Dongdong An , Tao Zhang , Qiaoling Xu , Hailing Guo , Majeed Ur Rehman , Dante M. Kennes , Angel Rubio , Lei Wang , Lede Xian

Moir\'e heterostructures consisting of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) hetero- and homobilayers have emerged as a promising material platform to study correlated electronic states. Optical signatures of strong correlations in the form…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-10 Natasha Kiper , Haydn S. Adlong , Arthur Christianen , Martin Kroner , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Atac Imamoglu

The long wavelength moir\'e superlattices in twisted 2D structures have emerged as a highly tunable platform for strongly correlated electron physics. We study the moir\'e bands in twisted transition metal dichalcogenide homobilayers,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-19 Trithep Devakul , Valentin Crépel , Yang Zhang , Liang Fu

In this paper we critically discuss several examples of two-dimensional electronic systems displaying interaction-driven metal-insulator transitions of the Mott (or Wigner--Mott) type, including dilute two-dimension electron gases (2DEG) in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-04 Yuting Tan , Vladimir Dobrosavljevic , Louk Rademaker

Due to their physical properties and potential applications in energy conversion and storage, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have garnered substantial interest in recent years. Amongst this class of materials, TMDs based on…

Moir\'e patterns made of two-dimensional (2D) materials represent highly tunable electronic Hamiltonians, allowing a wide range of quantum phases to emerge in a single material. Current modeling techniques for moir\'e electrons requires…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-05 Diyi Liu , Mitchell Luskin , Stephen Carr

Cross-plane thermal conductivity in homogeneous transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibits a strong dependence on twist angle, originating from atomic reconstruction within moir\'e superlattices. This reconstruction redistributes…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-02 Wenwu Jiang , Ting Liang , Hekai Bu , Jianbin Xu , Wengen Ouyang

The interplay of spin and orbital degrees of freedom offers a versatile playground for the realization of a variety of correlated phases of matter. However, the types of spin-orbital interactions are often limited and challenging to tune.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-31 Ahmed Khalifa , Rokas Veitas , Francisco Machado , Shubhayu Chatterjee

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are a branch of two-dimensional materials which in addition to having an easy-to-exfoliate layered structure, also host semiconducting, metallic, superconducting, and topological properties in various…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-25 Suvodeep Paul , Saswata Talukdar , Ravi Shankar Singh , Surajit Saha

The relaxation of moir\'e superlattices in twisted bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) has been modeled using a set of neural-network-based approaches. We implemented and compared several architectures, including (i) an…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-09-17 Aleksei V. Belonovskii , Elizaveta I. Girshova , Erkki Lähderanta , Mikhail Kaliteevski

The tunability of the interlayer coupling by twisting one layer with respect to another layer of two-dimensional materials provides a unique way to manipulate the phonons and related properties. We refer to this engineering of phononic…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-25 Indrajit Maity , Mit H. Naik , Prabal K Maiti , H. R. Krishnamurthy , Manish Jain

In this work, a generalized force-field methodology for the relaxation of large moir\'e heterostructures is proposed. The force-field parameters are optimized to accurately reproduce the structural degrees of freedom of some computationally…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-19 Carl Emil Mørch Nielsen , Miguel da Cruz , Abderrazak Torche , Gabriel Bester

Transition-metal dichalcogenide heterostructures exhibit moir\'e patterns that spatially modulate the electronic structure across the material's plane. For certain material pairs, this modulation acts as a potential landscape with deep,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-12 David A. Ruiz-Tijerina , Isaac Soltero , Francisco Mireles