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 …

Quantum anomalous Hall crystal at fractional filling of moiré superlattices

DN Sheng, AP Reddy, A Abouelkomsan… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We predict the emergence of a state of matter with intertwined ferromagnetism, charge order,
and topology in fractionally filled moiré superlattice bands. Remarkably, these quantum …

Parent Berry curvature and the ideal anomalous Hall crystal

T Tan, T Devakul - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
We study a model of electrons moving in a parent band of uniform Berry curvature. At
sufficiently high parent Berry curvature, we show that strong repulsive interactions …

Extended quantum anomalous Hall states in graphene/hBN moiré superlattices

Z Lu, T Han, Y Yao, Z Hadjri, J Yang, J Seo, L Shi, S Ye… - Nature, 2025 - nature.com
Electrons in topological flat bands can form new topological states driven by correlation
effects. The pentalayer rhombohedral graphene/hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) moiré …

Anomalous Hall crystals in rhombohedral multilayer graphene. II. General mechanism and a minimal model

T Soejima, J Dong, T Wang, T Wang, MP Zaletel… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We propose a minimal “three-patch model” for the anomalous Hall crystal (AHC), a
topological electronic state that spontaneously breaks both time-reversal symmetry and …

Stability of anomalous Hall crystals in multilayer rhombohedral graphene

Z Dong, AS Patri, T Senthil - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Recent experiments showing an integer quantum anomalous Hall effect in pentalayer
rhombohedral graphene have been interpreted in terms of a valley-polarized interaction …

A microscopic perspective on moiré materials

KP Nuckolls, A Yazdani - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Contemporary quantum materials research is guided by themes of topology and electronic
correlations. A confluence of these two themes is engineered in moiré materials, an …

Direct magnetic imaging of fractional Chern insulators in twisted MoTe2

E Redekop, C Zhang, H Park, J Cai, E Anderson… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Orbital magnetization provides a sensitive probe of topology and interactions, with
particularly rich phenomenology in Chern insulators in which the topological edge states …

Theory of quantum anomalous Hall phases in pentalayer rhombohedral graphene moiré structures

Z Dong, AS Patri, T Senthil - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Remarkable recent experiments on the moiré structure formed by pentalayer rhombohedral
graphene aligned with a hexagonal boron nitride substrate report the discovery of a zero …

Fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect in rhombohedral multilayer graphene in the moiréless limit

B Zhou, H Yang, YH Zhang - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The standard theoretical framework for fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) effect
assumes an isolated flat Chern band in the single particle level. In this Letter, we challenge …