Light-induced emergent phenomena in 2D materials and topological materials

C Bao, P Tang, D Sun, S Zhou - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Light–matter interaction in 2D and topological materials provides a fascinating control knob
for inducing emergent, non-equilibrium properties and achieving new functionalities in the …

Engineered moiré photonic and phononic superlattices

M Oudich, X Kong, T Zhang, C Qiu, Y **g - Nature Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Recent discoveries of Mott insulating and unconventional superconducting states in twisted
bilayer graphene with moiré superlattices have not only reshaped the landscape of …

New constraints on axion-like dark matter using a Floquet quantum detector

IM Bloch, G Ronen, R Shaham, O Katz, T Volansky… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Dark matter is one of the greatest mysteries in physics. It interacts via gravity and composes
most of our universe, but its elementary composition is unknown. We search for …

Recent developments in fractional Chern insulators

Z Liu, EJ Bergholtz - arxiv preprint arxiv:2208.08449, 2022 - arxiv.org
Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) are lattice generalizations of the conventional fractional
quantum Hall effect (FQHE) in two-dimensional (2D) electron gases. They typically arise in a …

Low-frequency and Moiré–Floquet engineering: A review

M Rodriguez-Vega, M Vogl, GA Fiete - Annals of Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
We review recent work on low-frequency Floquet engineering and its application to quantum
materials driven by light, focusing on van der Waals systems hosting Moiré superlattices …

Photonic analog of bilayer graphene

M Oudich, G Su, Y Deng, W Benalcazar, R Huang… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Drawing inspiration from bilayer graphene, this paper introduces its photonic analog
comprising two stacked graphenelike photonic crystals that are coupled in the near field …

Topological flat bands in strained graphene: Substrate engineering and optical control

MT Mahmud, D Zhai, N Sandler - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
The discovery of correlated phases in twisted moiré superlattices accelerated the search for
low-dimensional materials with exotic properties. A promising approach uses engineered …

Light-matter coupling and quantum geometry in moiré materials

GE Topp, CJ Eckhardt, DM Kennes, MA Sentef… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Quantum geometry has been identified as an important ingredient for the physics of
quantum materials and especially of flat-band systems, such as moiré materials. On the …

Twist-angle-dependent thermal conduction in single-crystalline bilayer graphene

S Han, X Nie, S Gu, W Liu, L Chen, H Ying… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Thermal conductivity (κ) of the single-crystalline bilayer graphene (BLG) is investigated
experimentally as a function of the interlayer twist angle (θ) and temperature using the …

Through the Lens of a Momentum Microscope: Viewing Light‐Induced Quantum Phenomena in 2D Materials

O Karni, I Esin, KM Dani - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Van der Waals (vdW) materials at their 2D limit are diverse, flexible, and unique laboratories
to study fundamental quantum phenomena and their future applications. Their novel …