The rise of xene hybrids

P Kumar, G Singh, X Guan, S Roy, J Lee… - Advanced …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Xenes, mono‐elemental atomic sheets, exhibit Dirac/Dirac‐like quantum behavior. When
interfaced with other 2D materials such as boron nitride, transition metal dichalcogenides …

Low-frequency and Moiré–Floquet engineering: A review

M Rodriguez-Vega, M Vogl, GA Fiete - Annals of Physics, 2021‏ - Elsevier
We review recent work on low-frequency Floquet engineering and its application to quantum
materials driven by light, focusing on van der Waals systems hosting Moiré superlattices …

Twistronics: a turning point in 2D quantum materials

Z Hennighausen, S Kar - Electronic Structure, 2021‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Moiré superlattices—periodic orbital overlaps and lattice-reconstruction between sites of
high atomic registry in vertically-stacked 2D layered materials—are quantum-active …

Dodecagonal bilayer graphene quasicrystal and its approximants

G Yu, Z Wu, Z Zhan, MI Katsnelson… - npj Computational …, 2019‏ - nature.com
Dodecagonal bilayer graphene quasicrystal has 12-fold rotational order but lacks
translational symmetry which prevents the application of band theory. In this paper, we study …

Truncated atomic plane wave method for subband structure calculations of moiré systems

W Miao, C Li, X Han, D Pan, X Dai - Physical Review B, 2023‏ - APS
We propose a highly efficient and accurate numerical scheme named the truncated atomic
plane wave method to determine the subband structure of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) …

2+δ‐Dimensional Materials via Atomistic Z‐Welding

TK Sahu, M Motlag, A Bandyopadhyay… - Advanced …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Pivotal to functional van der Waals stacked flexible electronic/excitonic/spintronic/
thermoelectric chips is the synergy amongst constituent layers. However; the current …

Perfect and controllable nesting in minimally twisted bilayer graphene

M Fleischmann, R Gupta, F Wullschläger, S Theil… - Nano …, 2019‏ - ACS Publications
Parallel (“nested”) regions of a Fermi surface (FS) drive instabilities of the electron fluid, for
example, the spin density wave in elemental chromium. In one-dimensional materials, the …

Effective Floquet Hamiltonians for periodically driven twisted bilayer graphene

M Vogl, M Rodriguez-Vega, GA Fiete - Physical Review B, 2020‏ - APS
We derive effective Floquet Hamiltonians for twisted bilayer graphene driven by circularly
polarized light in two different regimes beyond the weak-drive, high-frequency regime. First …

Floquet engineering of topological transitions in a twisted transition metal dichalcogenide homobilayer

M Vogl, M Rodriguez-Vega, B Flebus, AH MacDonald… - Physical Review B, 2021‏ - APS
Motivated by the recent experimental realization of twisted transition metal dichalcogenide
bilayers, we study a simplified model driven by different forms of monochromatic light. As a …

Floquet engineering of interlayer couplings: Tuning the magic angle of twisted bilayer graphene at the exit of a waveguide

M Vogl, M Rodriguez-Vega, GA Fiete - Physical Review B, 2020‏ - APS
We introduce an approach that allows one complete control over the modulation of the
effective twist angle change in few-layer van der Waals heterostructures by irradiating them …