Electrostatic gating and intercalation in 2D materials

Y Wu, D Li, CL Wu, HY Hwang, Y Cui - Nature Reviews Materials, 2023 - nature.com
The doping or the alteration of crystals with guest species to obtain desired properties has
long been a research frontier in materials science. However, the closely packed lattice …

Semiconductor moiré materials

KF Mak, J Shan - Nature Nanotechnology, 2022 - nature.com
Moiré materials have emerged as a platform for exploring the physics of strong electronic
correlations and non-trivial band topology. Here we review the recent progress in …

Angle-resolved photoemission studies of quantum materials

JA Sobota, Y He, ZX Shen - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2021 - APS
The physics of quantum materials is dictated by many-body interactions and mathematical
concepts such as symmetry and topology that have transformed our understanding of matter …

Colloquium: Nonthermal pathways to ultrafast control in quantum materials

A De La Torre, DM Kennes, M Claassen, S Gerber… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021 - APS
Recent progress in utilizing ultrafast light-matter interaction to control the macroscopic
properties of quantum materials is reviewed. Particular emphasis is placed on photoinduced …

The Hubbard model: A computational perspective

M Qin, T Schäfer, S Andergassen… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The Hubbard model is the simplest model of interacting fermions on a lattice and is of similar
importance to correlated electron physics as the Ising model is to statistical mechanics or the …

Correlated insulating states at fractional fillings of moiré superlattices

Y Xu, S Liu, DA Rhodes, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Quantum particles on a lattice with competing long-range interactions are ubiquitous in
physics; transition metal oxides,, layered molecular crystals and trapped-ion arrays are a few …

Limitations of the Tauc plot method

J Klein, L Kampermann, B Mockenhaupt… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The Tauc plot is a method originally developed to derive the optical gap of amorphous
semiconductors such as amorphous germanium or silicon. By measuring the absorption …

Superconductivity and strong correlations in moiré flat bands

L Balents, CR Dean, DK Efetov, AF Young - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Strongly correlated systems can give rise to spectacular phenomenology, from high-
temperature superconductivity to the emergence of states of matter characterized by long …

Continuous Mott transition in semiconductor moiré superlattices

T Li, S Jiang, L Li, Y Zhang, K Kang, J Zhu, K Watanabe… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The evolution of a Landau Fermi liquid into a non-magnetic Mott insulator with increasing
electronic interactions is one of the most puzzling quantum phase transitions in physics …

Simulation of Hubbard model physics in WSe2/WS2 moiré superlattices

Y Tang, L Li, T Li, Y Xu, S Liu, K Barmak, K Watanabe… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The Hubbard model, formulated by physicist John Hubbard in the 1960s, is a simple
theoretical model of interacting quantum particles in a lattice. The model is thought to …