Reproducibility in the fabrication and physics of moiré materials

CN Lau, MW Bockrath, KF Mak, F Zhang - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Overlaying two atomic layers with a slight lattice mismatch or at a small rotation angle
creates a moiré superlattice, which has properties that are markedly modified from (and at …

Disorder in van der Waals heterostructures of 2D materials

D Rhodes, SH Chae, R Ribeiro-Palau, J Hone - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
Realizing the full potential of any materials system requires understanding and controlling
disorder, which can obscure intrinsic properties and hinder device performance. Here we …

Correlated insulator and Chern insulators in pentalayer rhombohedral-stacked graphene

T Han, Z Lu, G Scuri, J Sung, J Wang, T Han… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Rhombohedral-stacked multilayer graphene hosts a pair of flat bands touching at zero
energy, which should give rise to correlated electron phenomena that can be tuned further …

Spontaneous broken-symmetry insulator and metals in tetralayer rhombohedral graphene

K Liu, J Zheng, Y Sha, B Lyu, F Li, Y Park, Y Ren… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Interactions among charge carriers in graphene can lead to the spontaneous breaking of
multiple degeneracies. When increasing the number of graphene layers following …

Orbital multiferroicity in pentalayer rhombohedral graphene

T Han, Z Lu, G Scuri, J Sung, J Wang, T Han… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Ferroic orders describe spontaneous polarization of spin, charge and lattice degrees of
freedom in materials. Materials exhibiting multiple ferroic orders, known as multiferroics …

Engineering symmetry breaking in 2D layered materials

L Du, T Hasan, A Castellanos-Gomez, GB Liu… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Symmetry breaking in 2D layered materials plays a significant role in their macroscopic
electrical, optical, magnetic and topological properties, including, but not limited to, spin …

The electronic properties of bilayer graphene

E McCann, M Koshino - Reports on Progress in physics, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the electronic properties of bilayer graphene, beginning with a description of the
tight-binding model of bilayer graphene and the derivation of the effective Hamiltonian …

Spintronics and pseudospintronics in graphene and topological insulators

D Pesin, AH MacDonald - Nature materials, 2012 - nature.com
The two-dimensional electron systems in graphene and in topological insulators are
described by massless Dirac equations. Although the two systems have similar …

Dirac materials

TO Wehling, AM Black-Schaffer… - Advances in Physics, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
A wide range of materials, like d-wave superconductors, graphene, and topological
insulators, share a fundamental similarity: their low-energy fermionic excitations behave as …

Quantum cascade of correlated phases in trigonally warped bilayer graphene

AM Seiler, FR Geisenhof, F Winterer, K Watanabe… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Divergent density of states offers an opportunity to explore a wide variety of correlated
electron physics. In the thinnest limit, this has been predicted and verified in the ultraflat …