Recent developments in fractional Chern insulators

Z Liu, EJ Bergholtz - arxiv preprint arxiv:2208.08449, 2022 - arxiv.org
Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) are lattice generalizations of the conventional fractional
quantum Hall effect (FQHE) in two-dimensional (2D) electron gases. They typically arise in a …

Bridging the small and large in twisted transition metal dichalcogenide homobilayers: A tight binding model capturing orbital interference and topology across a wide …

V Crépel, A Millis - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
Many of the important phases observed in twisted transition metal dichalcogenide
homobilayers are driven by short-range interactions, which should be captured by a local …

Three-dimensional nonlinear optical materials from twisted two-dimensional van der Waals interfaces

B Kim, J **, Z Wang, L He, T Christensen, EJ Mele… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
To enable new nonlinear responses, metamaterials are created by organizing structural
units (meta-atoms), which are typically on the scale of about a hundred nanometres …

Layer-locked anomalous valley Hall effect in a two-dimensional -type tetragonal antiferromagnetic insulator

SD Guo, W Xu, Y Xue, G Zhu, YS Ang - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics provides a route towards energy-efficient and ultrafast
device applications. Achieving anomalous valley Hall effect (AVHE) in AFM monolayers is …

Terahertz linear/non-linear anomalous Hall conductivity of moiré TMD hetero-nanoribbons as topological valleytronics materials

F Shayeganfar, A Ramazani, H Habibiyan… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Twisted moiré van der Waals heterostructures hold promise to provide a robust quantum
simulation platform for strongly correlated materials and realize elusive states of matter such …

Hofstadter spectrum of Chern bands in twisted transition metal dichalcogenides

K Kolář, K Yang, F von Oppen, C Mora - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We study the topological bands in twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides in an
external magnetic field. We first focus on a paradigmatic model of WSe 2, which can be …

Non-Abelian topological superconductivity in maximally twisted double-layer spin-triplet valley-singlet superconductors

BT Zhou, S Egan, D Kush, M Franz - Communications Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Recent studies point to an exotic spin-triplet valley-singlet (STVS) superconducting phase in
certain two-valley electron liquids, including rhombohedral trilayer graphene, Bernal bilayer …

Spin-orbital coupling induced isolated flat band in bismuthene with k-dependent spin texture

S Li, X Shi, J Li, C He, T Ouyang, C Tang, J Zhong - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Flat bands exhibit many exotic physical phenomena due to the dispersionless features and
are receiving widespread attentions. In this work, a metastable bismuthene allotrope (P-3m1 …

Recent progress on fabrication and flat-band physics in 2D transition metal dichalcogenides moiré superlattices

X Huang, X Han, Y Dai, X Xu, J Yan… - Journal of …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Moiré superlattices are formed when overlaying two materials with a slight mismatch in twist
angle or lattice constant. They provide a novel platform for the study of strong electronic …

Moir\'e plane wave expansion model for scanning tunneling microscopy simulations of incommensurate two-dimensional materials

ML Ster, P Dabrowski, P Krukowski, M Rogala… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Incommensurate heterostructures of two-dimensional (2D) materials, despite their attractive
electronic behaviour, are challenging to simulate because of the absence of translation …