Moir\'e materials provide a highly tunable platform in which novel electronic phenomena can emerge. We study strained moir\'e materials in a uniform magnetic field and predict highly anisotropic electrical conductivity which switches easy-axis as magnetic field or strain is varied. The dramatic anisotropy reflects one-dimensional localization (dimensional reduction) of the electron wavefunctions along a crystal axis due to quantum interference effects. This can be understood in an effective one-dimensional quasiperiodic Aubry-Andr\'e-like models, or in a complementary semiclassical picture. This phenomenon should be observable in strained moir\'e materials at realistic fields and low strain disorder, as well as unstrained systems with anisotropic Fermi surfaces.
@article{arxiv.2311.09323,
title = {Dimensional reduction from magnetic field in moir\'e superlattices},
author = {Nisarga Paul and Philip J. D. Crowley and Liang Fu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.09323},
year = {2024}
}