Mapping twist-tuned multiband topology in bilayer WSe2

BA Foutty, CR Kometter, T Devakul, AP Reddy… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Semiconductor moiré superlattices have been shown to host a wide array of interaction-
driven ground states. However, twisted homobilayers have been difficult to study in the limit …

Moiré fractional Chern insulators. I. First-principles calculations and continuum models of twisted bilayer

Y Jia, J Yu, J Liu, J Herzog-Arbeitman, Z Qi, H Pi… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Recent experiments observed fractional Chern insulators (FCI) in twisted bilayer MoTe 2 at
zero magnetic field, yet even the single-particle model of this material is controversial …

A microscopic perspective on moiré materials

KP Nuckolls, A Yazdani - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Contemporary quantum materials research is guided by themes of topology and electronic
correlations. A confluence of these two themes is engineered in moiré materials, an …

Progress and challenges for two-dimensional spin-polarized quantum materials

G Zhang, H Wu, W Jin, L Yang, B Xiao, J Yu… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2024 - cell.com
The physical descriptions of known materials are based on quantum mechanics, which
describes how atoms bond and electrons interact at a fundamental level. However, there is …

Helical trilayer graphene in magnetic field: Chern mosaic and higher Chern number ideal flat bands

A Datta, D Guerci, MO Goerbig, C Mora - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Helical trilayer graphene (hTG) exhibits a supermoiré pattern with large domains centered
around stacking points ABA and BAB, where two well-separated low-energy bands appear …

Hofstadter spectrum of Chern bands in twisted transition metal dichalcogenides

K Kolář, K Yang, F von Oppen, C Mora - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We study the topological bands in twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides in an
external magnetic field. We first focus on a paradigmatic model of WSe 2, which can be …

Inhomogeneous high temperature melting and decoupling of charge density waves in spin-triplet superconductor UTe2

A LaFleur, H Li, CE Frank, M Xu, S Cheng… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Charge, spin and Cooper-pair density waves have now been widely detected in exotic
superconductors. Understanding how these density waves emerge—and become …

Artificial Atoms, Wigner Molecules, and an Emergent Kagome Lattice in Semiconductor Moiré Superlattices

AP Reddy, T Devakul, L Fu - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Semiconductor moiré superlattices comprise an array of artificial atoms and provide a highly
tunable platform for exploring novel electronic phases. We introduce a theoretical framework …

Particle-hole asymmetric ferromagnetism and spin textures in the triangular Hubbard-Hofstadter model

JK Ding, L Yang, WO Wang, Z Zhu, C Peng, P Mai… - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
In a lattice model subject to a perpendicular magnetic field, when the lattice constant is
comparable to the magnetic length, one enters the “Hofstadter regime,” where continuum …

Quantum Wigner molecules in moiré materials

C Yannouleas, U Landman - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The few-body problem (with N≤ 6 fermionic charge carriers) in isolated moiré quantum dots
(MQDs) in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayer materials with integer fillings, ν≥ 2 …