High-order Van Hove singularities and their connection to flat bands

L Classen, JJ Betouras - Annual Review of Condensed Matter …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The flattening of single-particle band structures plays an important role in the quest for novel
quantum states of matter owing to the crucial role of interactions. Recent advances in theory …

Superconductivity in 5.0° twisted bilayer WSe2

Y Guo, J Pack, J Swann, L Holtzman, M Cothrine… - Nature, 2025 - nature.com
The discovery of superconductivity in twisted bilayer and trilayer graphene,,,–has generated
tremendous interest. The key feature of these systems is an interplay between interlayer …

Composite Fermi Liquid at Zero Magnetic Field in Twisted

J Dong, J Wang, PJ Ledwith, A Vishwanath… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
The pursuit of exotic phases of matter outside of the extreme conditions of a quantizing
magnetic field is a long-standing quest of solid state physics. Recent experiments have …

Magic in twisted transition metal dichalcogenide bilayers

T Devakul, V Crépel, Y Zhang, L Fu - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
The long-wavelength moiré superlattices in twisted 2D structures have emerged as a highly
tunable platform for strongly correlated electron physics. We study the moiré bands in …

Programming correlated magnetic states with gate-controlled moiré geometry

E Anderson, FR Fan, J Cai, W Holtzmann, T Taniguchi… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The ability to control the underlying lattice geometry of a system may enable transitions
between emergent quantum ground states. We report in situ gate switching between …

Anomalous Hall metal and fractional Chern insulator in twisted transition metal dichalcogenides

V Crépel, L Fu - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We predict robust Ising ferromagnetism driven by Coulomb interaction in the metallic phase
of twisted transition metal dichalcogenide homobilayers for a range of small twist angles …

Light-induced ferromagnetism in moiré superlattices

X Wang, C **ao, H Park, J Zhu, C Wang, T Taniguchi… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Many-body interactions between carriers lie at the heart of correlated physics. The ability to
tune such interactions would allow the possibility to access and control complex electronic …

Pressure-enhanced fractional Chern insulators along a magic line in moiré transition metal dichalcogenides

N Morales-Durán, J Wang, GR Schleder, M Angeli… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
We show that pressure applied to twisted WSe 2 can enhance the many-body gap and
region of stability of a fractional Chern insulator at filling ν= 1/3. Our results are based on …

Topological and stacked flat bands in bilayer graphene with a superlattice potential

SAA Ghorashi, A Dunbrack, A Abouelkomsan, J Sun… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We show that bilayer graphene in the presence of a 2D superlattice potential provides a
highly tunable setup that can realize a variety of flat band phenomena. We focus on two …

Pair-density-wave and chiral superconductivity in twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides

YM Wu, Z Wu, H Yao - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We theoretically explore possible orders induced by weak repulsive interactions in twisted
bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (eg, WSe 2) in the presence of an out-of-plane …