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 …

Bridging the small and large in twisted transition metal dichalcogenide homobilayers: A tight binding model capturing orbital interference and topology across a wide …

V Crépel, A Millis - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
Many of the important phases observed in twisted transition metal dichalcogenide
homobilayers are driven by short-range interactions, which should be captured by a local …

Strong correlations in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides

W Ruan, Y Zhang - Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy, 2023 - Springer
Since the discovery of graphene, the development of two-dimensional material research has
enabled the exploration of a rich variety of exotic quantum phenomena that are not …

Spin-orbit coupling in transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayer flat bands

L Rademaker - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
The valence flat bands in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterobilayers are shown to
exhibit strong intralayer spin-orbit coupling. I show that symmetry constrains the spin …

Gate-tunable antiferromagnetic Chern insulator in twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides

X Liu, Y He, C Wang, XW Zhang, T Cao, D Xiao - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
A series of recent experimental works on twisted MoTe 2 homobilayers have unveiled an
abundance of exotic states in this system. Valley-polarized quantum anomalous Hall states …

Excitonic Mott insulator in a Bose-Fermi-Hubbard system of moiré WS2/WSe2 heterobilayer

B Gao, DG Suárez-Forero, S Sarkar, TS Huang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding the Hubbard model is crucial for investigating various quantum many-body
states and its fermionic and bosonic versions have been largely realized separately …

Spinon Pairing Induced by Chiral In-Plane Exchange and the Stabilization of Odd-Spin Chern Number Spin Liquid in Twisted

V Crépel, A Millis - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The unusual structure and symmetry of low-energy states in twisted transition metal
dichalcogenides leads to large in-plane spin-exchange interactions between spin-valley …

Topological superconductivity with mixed singlet-triplet pairing in moiré transition metal dichalcogenide bilayers

W Akbar, A Biborski, L Rademaker, M Zegrodnik - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We investigate strong coupling topological superconductivity in twisted moiré bilayer WSe 2.
Our approach is based on an effective tJ model with displacement-field-dependent complex …

Tunable stripe order and weak superconductivity in the Moiré Hubbard model

A Wietek, J Wang, J Zang, J Cano, A Georges… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
The moiré Hubbard model describes correlations in certain homobilayer twisted transition
metal dichalcogenides. Using exact diagonalization and density matrix renormalization …

Competition of density waves and superconductivity in twisted tungsten diselenide

L Klebl, A Fischer, L Classen, MM Scherer… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Evidence for correlated insulating and superconducting phases around regions of high
density of states was reported in the strongly spin-orbit coupled van der Waals material …