Nonlinear Hall Effects in Strained Twisted Bilayer WSe${}_2$

Abstract

Recently, it has been pointed out that the twisting of bilayer WSe${}_2$ would generate topologically non-trivial flat bands near the Fermi energy. In this work, we show that twisted bilayer WSe${}_2$ (tWSe${}_2$) with uniaxial strain exhibits a large nonlinear Hall (NLH) response due to the non-trivial Berry curvatures of the flat bands. Moreover, the NLH effect is greatly enhanced near the topological phase transition point which can be tuned by a vertical displacement field. Importantly, the nonlinear Hall signal changes sign across the topological phase transition point and provides a way to identify the topological phase transition and probe the topological properties of the flat bands. The strong enhancement and high tunability of the NLH effect near the topological phase transition point renders tWSe${}_2$ and related moire materials new platforms for rectification and second harmonic generations.

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