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 …

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 …

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 …

Signatures of Wigner crystal of electrons in a monolayer semiconductor

T Smoleński, PE Dolgirev, C Kuhlenkamp, A Popert… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
When the Coulomb repulsion between electrons dominates over their kinetic energy,
electrons in two-dimensional systems are predicted to spontaneously break continuous …

Magic angles and fractional Chern insulators in twisted homobilayer transition metal dichalcogenides

N Morales-Durán, N Wei, J Shi, AH MacDonald - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We explain the appearance of magic angles and fractional Chern insulators in twisted K-
valley homobilayer transition metal dichalcogenides by map** their continuum model to a …

Kekulé spiral order at all nonzero integer fillings in twisted bilayer graphene

YH Kwan, G Wagner, T Soejima, MP Zaletel, SH Simon… - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
We study magic angle graphene in the presence of both strain and particle-hole symmetry
breaking due to nonlocal interlayer tunneling. We perform a self-consistent Hartree-Fock …

Non-Abelian anyons and topological quantum computation

C Nayak, SH Simon, A Stern, M Freedman… - Reviews of Modern …, 2008 - APS
Topological quantum computation has emerged as one of the most exciting approaches to
constructing a fault-tolerant quantum computer. The proposal relies on the existence of …

Electronic properties of graphene in a strong magnetic field

MO Goerbig - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2011 - APS
The basic aspects of electrons in graphene (two-dimensional graphite) exposed to a strong
perpendicular magnetic field are reviewed. One of its most salient features is the relativistic …

Nematic Fermi fluids in condensed matter physics

E Fradkin, SA Kivelson, MJ Lawler… - Annu. Rev. Condens …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Correlated electron fluids can exhibit a startling array of complex phases, among which one
of the more surprising is the electron nematic, a translationally invariant metallic phase with …

How to detect fluctuating stripes in the high-temperature superconductors

SA Kivelson, IP Bindloss, E Fradkin, V Oganesyan… - Reviews of Modern …, 2003 - APS
This article discusses fluctuating order in a quantum disordered phase proximate to a
quantum critical point, with particular emphasis on fluctuating stripe order. Optimal strategies …