Tunable moiré materials for probing Berry physics and topology

PC Adak, S Sinha, A Agarwal… - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Berry curvature physics and quantum geometric effects have been instrumental in
advancing topological condensed matter physics in recent decades. Although Landau level …

Emergent phases in graphene flat bands

S Bhowmik, A Ghosh, U Chandni - Reports on Progress in …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Electronic correlations in two-dimensional materials play a crucial role in stabilising
emergent phases of matter. The realisation of correlation-driven phenomena in graphene …

Quantum metric induced phases in moiré materials

A Abouelkomsan, K Yang, EJ Bergholtz - Physical Review Research, 2023 - APS
We show that, quite generally, quantum geometry plays a major role in determining the low-
energy physics in strongly correlated lattice models at fractional band fillings. We identify …

Polynomial sign problem and topological Mott insulator in twisted bilayer graphene

X Zhang, G Pan, BB Chen, H Li, K Sun, ZY Meng - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We show that for the magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) away from the charge
neutrality point, although quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations suffer from the sign …

Spin-orbit coupling-enhanced valley ordering of malleable bands in twisted bilayer graphene on WSe2

S Bhowmik, B Ghawri, Y Park, D Lee, S Datta… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Recent experiments in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene have revealed a wealth of
novel electronic phases as a result of interaction-driven spin-valley flavour polarisation. In …

Finite-temperature critical behaviors in 2D long-range quantum Heisenberg model

J Zhao, M Song, Y Qi, J Rong, ZY Meng - npj Quantum Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Mermin-Wagner theorem states that spontaneous continuous symmetry
breaking is prohibited in systems with short-range interactions at spatial dimension D≤ 2 …

Quantum criticality and entanglement for the two-dimensional long-range Heisenberg bilayer

M Song, J Zhao, Y Qi, J Rong, ZY Meng - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
The study of quantum criticality and entanglement in systems with long-range (LR)
interactions is still in its early stages, with many open questions remaining to be explored. In …

Demonstration and imaging of cryogenic magneto-thermoelectric cooling in a van der Waals semimetal

T Völkl, A Aharon-Steinberg, T Holder, E Alpern… - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Attaining viable thermoelectric cooling at cryogenic temperatures is of considerable
fundamental and technological interest for electronics and quantum materials applications …

Nonlinear Electrical Transport Unveils Fermi Surface Malleability in a Moiré Heterostructure

S Datta, S Bhowmik, H Varshney, K Watanabe… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Van Hove singularities enhance many-body interactions and induce collective states of
matter ranging from superconductivity to magnetism. In magic-angle twisted bilayer …

Non-coplanar magnetism, topological density wave order and emergent symmetry at half-integer filling of moiré Chern bands

P Wilhelm, T Lang, MS Scheurer, A Läuchli - SciPost Physics, 2023 - scipost.org
Twisted double-and mono-bilayer graphene are graphene-based moiré materials hosting
strongly correlated fermions in a gate-tunable conduction band with a topologically non …