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 …

Understanding epitaxial growth of two-dimensional materials and their homostructures

C Liu, T Liu, Z Zhang, Z Sun, G Zhang, E Wang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The exceptional physical properties of two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials
have been extensively researched, driving advances in material synthesis. Epitaxial growth …

Thermodynamic evidence of fractional Chern insulator in moiré MoTe2

Y Zeng, Z **a, K Kang, J Zhu, P Knüppel, C Vaswani… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Chern insulators, which are the lattice analogues of the quantum Hall states, can potentially
manifest high-temperature topological orders at zero magnetic field to enable next …

Observation of Integer and Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Effects in Twisted Bilayer

F Xu, Z Sun, T Jia, C Liu, C Xu, C Li, Y Gu, K Watanabe… - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
The interplay between strong correlations and topology can lead to the emergence of
intriguing quantum states of matter. One well-known example is the fractional quantum Hall …

Fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect in multilayer graphene

Z Lu, T Han, Y Yao, AP Reddy, J Yang, J Seo… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect (FQAHE), the analogue of the fractional
quantum Hall effect at zero magnetic field, is predicted to exist in topological flat bands …

Evidence of the fractional quantum spin Hall effect in moiré MoTe2

K Kang, B Shen, Y Qiu, Y Zeng, Z **a, K Watanabe… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators are two-dimensional electronic materials that have a
bulk band gap similar to an ordinary insulator but have topologically protected pairs of edge …

Superconductivity in twisted bilayer WSe2

Y **a, Z Han, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi, J Shan… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Moiré materials have enabled the realization of flat electron bands and quantum phases that
are driven by the strong correlations associated with flat bands,,–. Superconductivity has …

Superconductivity in 5.0° twisted bilayer WSe2

Y Guo, J Pack, J Swann, L Holtzman, M Cothrine… - Nature, 2025 - nature.com
The discovery of superconductivity in twisted bilayer and trilayer graphene,,,–has generated
tremendous interest. The key feature of these systems is an interplay between interlayer …

Essay: Where can quantum geometry lead us?

P Törmä - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Quantum geometry defines the phase and amplitude distances between quantum states.
The phase distance is characterized by the Berry curvature and thus relates to topological …

Charge-transfer contacts for the measurement of correlated states in high-mobility WSe2

J Pack, Y Guo, Z Liu, BS Jessen, L Holtzman… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Two-dimensional semiconductors, such as transition metal dichalcogenides, have
demonstrated tremendous promise for the development of highly tunable quantum devices …