Graphene bilayers with a twist

EY Andrei, AH MacDonald - Nature materials, 2020 - nature.com
Near a magic twist angle, bilayer graphene transforms from a weakly correlated Fermi liquid
to a strongly correlated two-dimensional electron system with properties that are …

Electronic materials with nanoscale curved geometries

P Gentile, M Cuoco, OM Volkov, ZJ Ying… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
As the dimensions of a material shrink from an extended bulk solid to a nanoscale structure,
size and quantum confinement effects become dominant, altering the properties of the …

Magic-angle helical trilayer graphene

T Devakul, PJ Ledwith, LQ **a, A Uri… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
We propose magic-angle helical trilayer graphene (HTG), a helical structure featuring
identical rotation angles between three consecutive layers of graphene, as a unique and …

Reversible strain-induced magnetic phase transition in a van der Waals magnet

J Cenker, S Sivakumar, K **e, A Miller… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Mechanical deformation of a crystal can have a profound effect on its physical properties.
Notably, even small modifications of bond geometry can completely change the size and …

Three-dimensional flat bands in pyrochlore metal CaNi2

JP Wakefield, M Kang, PM Neves, D Oh, S Fang… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Electronic flat-band materials host quantum states characterized by a quenched kinetic
energy. These flat bands are often conducive to enhanced electron correlation effects and …

Valley-Polarized Quantum Anomalous Hall State in Moiré Heterobilayers

YM **e, CP Zhang, JX Hu, KF Mak, KT Law - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Moiré heterobilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) emerge as an ideal system for
simulating the single-band Hubbard model and interesting correlated phases have been …

Untwisting moiré physics: Almost ideal bands and fractional Chern insulators in periodically strained monolayer graphene

Q Gao, J Dong, P Ledwith, D Parker, E Khalaf - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Moiré systems have emerged in recent years as a rich platform to study strong correlations.
Here, we will propose a simple, experimentally feasible setup based on periodically strained …

Local control of superconductivity in a NbSe2/CrSBr van der Waals heterostructure

J Jo, Y Peisen, H Yang, S Mañas-Valero… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Two-dimensional magnets and superconductors are emerging as tunable building-blocks
for quantum computing and superconducting spintronic devices, and have been used to …

[HTML][HTML] Imaging quantum oscillations and millitesla pseudomagnetic fields in graphene

H Zhou, N Auerbach, M Uzan, Y Zhou, N Banu, W Zhi… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The exceptional control of the electronic energy bands in atomically thin quantum materials
has led to the discovery of several emergent phenomena. However, at present there is no …

Strong second-harmonic generation by sublattice polarization in non-uniformly strained monolayer graphene

K Lu, M Luo, W Gao, QJ Wang, H Sun… - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Despite the potential of graphene for building a variety of quantum photonic devices, its
centrosymmetric nature forbids the observation of second harmonic generation (SHG) for …