Colloquium: Quantum anomalous Hall effect

CZ Chang, CX Liu, AH MacDonald - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2023 - APS
The quantum Hall (QH) effect, quantized Hall resistance combined with zero longitudinal
resistance, is the characteristic experimental fingerprint of Chern insulators—topologically …

Superconductivity and strong correlations in moiré flat bands

L Balents, CR Dean, DK Efetov, AF Young - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Strongly correlated systems can give rise to spectacular phenomenology, from high-
temperature superconductivity to the emergence of states of matter characterized by long …

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene as a topological heavy fermion problem

ZD Song, BA Bernevig - Physical review letters, 2022 - APS
Magic-angle (θ= 1.0 5°) twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) has shown two seemingly
contradictory characters: the localization and quantum-dot-like behavior in STM …

Isospin Pomeranchuk effect in twisted bilayer graphene

Y Saito, F Yang, J Ge, X Liu, T Taniguchi, K Watanabe… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
In condensed-matter systems, higher temperatures typically disfavour ordered phases,
leading to an upper critical temperature for magnetism, superconductivity and other …

Correlated insulating phases of twisted bilayer graphene at commensurate filling fractions: A Hartree-Fock study

Y Zhang, K Jiang, Z Wang, F Zhang - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
Motivated by the recently observed insulating states in twisted bilayer graphene, we study
the nature of the correlated insulating phases of the twisted bilayer graphene at …

Electrical switching of magnetic order in an orbital Chern insulator

H Polshyn, J Zhu, MA Kumar, Y Zhang, F Yang… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Magnetism typically arises from the joint effect of Fermi statistics and repulsive Coulomb
interactions, which favours ground states with non-zero electron spin. As a result, controlling …

Stripe phases in WSe2/WS2 moiré superlattices

C **, Z Tao, T Li, Y Xu, Y Tang, J Zhu, S Liu… - Nature Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Stripe phases, in which the rotational symmetry of charge density is spontaneously broken,
occur in many strongly correlated systems with competing interactions,,,,,,,,,–. However …

Entropic evidence for a Pomeranchuk effect in magic-angle graphene

A Rozen, JM Park, U Zondiner, Y Cao… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
In the 1950s, Pomeranchuk predicted that, counterintuitively, liquid 3He may solidify on
heating. This effect arises owing to high excess nuclear spin entropy in the solid phase …

Twisted bilayer graphene. IV. Exact insulator ground states and phase diagram

B Lian, ZD Song, N Regnault, DK Efetov, A Yazdani… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We derive the exact insulator ground states of the projected Hamiltonian of magic-angle
twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) flat bands with Coulomb interactions in various limits, and …

Imaging orbital ferromagnetism in a moiré Chern insulator

CL Tschirhart, M Serlin, H Polshyn, A Shragai, Z **a… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Electrons in moiré flat band systems can spontaneously break time-reversal symmetry,
giving rise to a quantized anomalous Hall effect. In this study, we use a superconducting …