Colloquium: Quantum anomalous Hall effect

CZ Chang, CX Liu, AH MacDonald - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2023 - APS
The quantum Hall (QH) effect, quantized Hall resistance combined with zero longitudinal
resistance, is the characteristic experimental fingerprint of Chern insulators—topologically …

Moiré photonics and optoelectronics

L Du, MR Molas, Z Huang, G Zhang, F Wang, Z Sun - Science, 2023 - science.org
Moiré superlattices, the artificial quantum materials, have provided a wide range of
possibilities for the exploration of completely new physics and device architectures. In this …

Symmetry-broken Josephson junctions and superconducting diodes in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

J Díez-Mérida, A Díez-Carlón, SY Yang, YM Xie… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The coexistence of gate-tunable superconducting, magnetic and topological orders in magic-
angle twisted bilayer graphene provides opportunities for the creation of hybrid Josephson …

Evidence for Dirac flat band superconductivity enabled by quantum geometry

H Tian, X Gao, Y Zhang, S Che, T Xu, P Cheung… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
In a flat band superconductor, the charge carriers' group velocity v F is extremely slow.
Superconductivity therein is particularly intriguing, being related to the long-standing …

Quantum textures of the many-body wavefunctions in magic-angle graphene

KP Nuckolls, RL Lee, M Oh, D Wong, T Soejima… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Interactions among electrons create novel many-body quantum phases of matter with
wavefunctions that reflect electronic correlation effects, broken symmetries and collective …

Observation of the orbital Hall effect in a light metal Ti

YG Choi, D Jo, KH Ko, D Go, KH Kim, HG Park, C Kim… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The orbital Hall effect refers to the generation of electron orbital angular momentum flow
transverse to an external electric field. Contrary to the common belief that the orbital angular …

Time-reversal symmetry breaking superconductivity between twisted cuprate superconductors

SYF Zhao, X Cui, PA Volkov, H Yoo, S Lee… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Twisted interfaces between stacked van der Waals (vdW) cuprate crystals present a platform
for engineering superconducting order parameters by adjusting stacking angles. Using a …

Kondo lattice model of magic-angle twisted-bilayer graphene: Hund's rule, local-moment fluctuations, and low-energy effective theory

H Hu, BA Bernevig, AM Tsvelik - Physical review letters, 2023 - APS
We apply a generalized Schrieffer-Wolff transformation to the extended Anderson-like
topological heavy fermion (THF) model for the magic-angle (θ= 1.0 5°) twisted bilayer …

Kinetic magnetism in triangular moiré materials

L Ciorciaro, T Smoleński, I Morera, N Kiper, S Hiestand… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Magnetic properties of materials ranging from conventional ferromagnetic metals to strongly
correlated materials such as cuprates originate from Coulomb exchange interactions. The …

Applications of graphene in five senses, nervous system, and artificial muscles

J Pang, S Peng, C Hou, H Zhao, Y Fan, C Ye… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Graphene remains of great interest in biomedical applications because of biocompatibility.
Diseases relating to human senses interfere with life satisfaction and happiness. Therefore …