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 …

Phase transitions out of quantum Hall states in moiré materials

XY Song, YH Zhang, T Senthil - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Motivated by the recent experimental breakthroughs in observing fractional quantum
anomalous Hall (FQAH) states in moiré materials, we propose and study various …

Excitons and polaritons<? pag\break?> in two-dimensional transition<? pag\break?> metal dichalcogenides: a tutorial

E Paik, L Zhang, K Fai Mak, J Shan… - Advances in Optics and …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Since the discovery of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers as
direct bandgap semiconductors with pronounced room-temperature exciton transitions …

Dielectric catastrophe at the Wigner-Mott transition in a moiré superlattice

Y Tang, J Gu, S Liu, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The bandwidth-tuned Wigner-Mott transition is an interaction-driven phase
transition from a generalized Wigner crystal to a Fermi liquid. Because the transition is …

Orbital Shift‐Induced Boundary Obstructed Topological Materials with a Large Energy Gap

N Mao, R Li, Y Dai, B Huang, B Yan, C Niu - Advanced Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Boundary obstructed topological phases caused by Wannier orbital shift between ordinary
atomic sites are proposed, which, however, cannot be indicated by symmetry eigenvalues at …

Theory of a continuous bandwidth-tuned Wigner-Mott transition

S Musser, T Senthil, D Chowdhury - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We develop a theory for a continuous bandwidth-tuned transition at fixed fractional electron
filling from a metal with a generic Fermi surface to a “Wigner-Mott” insulator that …

Phase transitions out of quantum Hall states in moir\'e TMD bilayers

XY Song, YH Zhang, T Senthil - arxiv preprint arxiv:2308.10903, 2023 - arxiv.org
Motivated by the recent experimental breakthroughs in observing Fractional Quantum
Anomalous Hall (FQAH) states in moir\'e Transition Metal Dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayers …

Continuous Mott transition in moiré semiconductors: role of long-wavelength inhomogeneities

S Kim, T Senthil, D Chowdhury - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Recent experiments in moiré transition metal dichalcogenide materials have reported the
observation of a continuous bandwidth-tuned transition from a metal to a paramagnetic Mott …

Tuning Quantum Phase Transitions at Half Filling in Moiré Superlattices

M Zhang, X Zhao, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi, Z Zhu… - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
Many sought-after exotic states of matter are known to emerge close to quantum phase
transitions, such as quantum spin liquids and unconventional superconductivity. It is, thus …

Corner charge fluctuations and many-body quantum geometry

XC Wu, KL Cai, M Cheng, P Kumar - arxiv preprint arxiv:2408.16057, 2024 - arxiv.org
In many-body systems with U (1) global symmetry, the charge fluctuations in a subregion
reveal important insights into entanglement and other global properties. For subregions with …