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 …

Excitons in semiconductor moiré superlattices

D Huang, J Choi, CK Shih, X Li - Nature nanotechnology, 2022 - nature.com
Semiconductor moiré superlattices represent a rapidly develo** area of engineered
photonic materials and a new platform to explore correlated electron states and quantum …

Imaging two-dimensional generalized Wigner crystals

H Li, S Li, EC Regan, D Wang, W Zhao, S Kahn… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The Wigner crystal has fascinated condensed matter physicists for nearly 90 years,,,,,,,,,,,–.
Signatures of two-dimensional (2D) Wigner crystals were first observed in 2D electron gases …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Stripe phases in WSe2/WS2 moiré superlattices

C **, Z Tao, T Li, Y Xu, Y Tang, J Zhu, S Liu… - Nature Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Stripe phases, in which the rotational symmetry of charge density is spontaneously broken,
occur in many strongly correlated systems with competing interactions,,,,,,,,,–. However …

A tunable bilayer Hubbard model in twisted WSe2

Y Xu, K Kang, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi, KF Mak… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Moiré materials with flat electronic bands provide a highly controllable quantum system for
studies of strong-correlation physics and topology. In particular, angle-aligned …

Dipolar excitonic insulator in a moiré lattice

J Gu, L Ma, S Liu, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi, JC Hone… - Nature physics, 2022 - nature.com
Two-dimensional moiré materials provide a highly controllable solid-state platform for
studies of quantum phenomena,–. To date, experimental studies have focused on correlated …

Hartree-Fock study of the moiré Hubbard model for twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides

J Zang, J Wang, J Cano, AJ Millis - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides have emerged as important model systems
for the investigation of correlated electron physics because their interaction strength, carrier …