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most citedAbundance of correlated insulating states at fractional fillings of WSe/WS moiré superlattices

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27 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Evidence for Three-component Interlayer Coherent Exciton Condensation

Subi Du, Xiaohan Zhang, Hongxi Song +8

Increasing the number of internal components in a quantum many-body system can host collective orders inaccessible to simpler settings. Quantum Hall bilayers provide a canonical re…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Supermoiré Chern mosaic in helical trilayer WSe2

Zhenyu Wang, Mingjie Zhang, Hai Meng +19

Helically twisted multilayers offer access to moiré physics beyond the single-superlattice paradigm, yet their correlated and topological transport properties remain largely unexpl…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Transport Evidence for Wigner Crystals in Monolayer MoTe2

Mingjie Zhang, Zhenyu Wang, Yifan Jiang +7

The crystallization of charge carriers, dubbed the Wigner crystal, is anticipated at low densities in clean two-dimensional electronic systems (2DES). While there has been extensiv…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Signatures of collective photon emission and ferroelectric ordering of excitons near their Mott insulating state in a WSe/WS heterobilayer

Luka Matej Devenica, Zach Hadjri, Jan Kumlin +11

Spontaneous symmetry breaking, arising from the competition of interactions and quantum fluctuations, is fundamental to understanding ordered electronic phases. Although electrical…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 84 cited

Charge-transfer Contact to a High-Mobility Monolayer Semiconductor

Jordan Pack, Yinjie Guo, Ziyu Liu +10

Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors, such as the transition metal dichalcogenides, have demonstrated tremendous promise for the development of highly tunable quantum devices. Reali…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 1 cited

Programmable Nanowrinkle-Induced Room-Temperature Exciton Localization in Monolayer WSe2

Emanuil S. Yanev, Thomas P. Darlington, Sophia A. Ladyzhets +8

Localized states in two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have been the subject of intense study, driven by potential applications in quantum information sc…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 3 cited

Two-step flux synthesis of ultrapure transition metal dichalcogenides

Song Liu, Yang Liu, Luke Nemetz Holtzman +10

Here, we describe synthesis of TMD crystals using a two-step flux growth method that eliminates a major potential source of contamination. Detailed characterization of TMDs grown b…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 16 cited

Thickness and twist angle dependent interlayer excitons in metal monochalcogenide heterostructures

Wenkai Zheng, Li Xiang, Felipe de Quesada +18

Interlayer excitons, or bound electron-hole pairs whose constituent quasiparticles are located in distinct stacked semiconducting layers, are being intensively studied in heterobil…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 2 cited

Quadrupolar excitons in a tunnel-coupled van der Waals heterotrilayer

Weijie Li, Zach Hadjri, Jin Zhang +7

Strongly bound excitons and many-body interactions between them determine light-matter interactions in van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures of 2D semiconductors. Unlike fundamental…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 34 cited

Electron spin resonance and collective excitations in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

Erin Morissette, Jiang-Xiazi Lin, Dihao Sun +11

In a strongly correlated system, collective excitations contain key information regarding the electronic order of the underlying ground state. An abundance of collective modes in t…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 39 cited

Evidence for Exciton Crystals in a 2D Semiconductor Heterotrilayer

Yusong Bai, Yiliu Li, Song Liu +6

Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) and their moiré interfaces have been demonstrated for correlated electron states, including Mott insulators and electro…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022

P-type Ohmic contact to monolayer WSe2 field-effect transistors using high electron affinity amorphous MoO3

Yi-Hsun Chen, Kaijian Xing, Song Liu +10

1 School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia 2 Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technolo…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 61 cited

Frustrated magnetic interactions in a Wigner-Mott insulator

Yanhao Tang, Kaixiang Su, Lizhong Li +9

Two-dimensional semiconductor moiré materials have emerged as a highly controllable platform to simulate and explore quantum condensed matter. Compared to real solids, electrons in…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 36 cited

Dark-exciton driven energy funneling into dielectric inhomogeneities in two-dimensional semiconductors

Haowen Su, Ding Xu, Shan-Wen Cheng +7

The optoelectronic and transport properties of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors (2D TMDs) are highly susceptible to external perturbation, enabling pr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 39 cited

Dielectric catastrophe at the Mott and Wigner transitions in a moiré superlattice

Yanhao Tang, Jie Gu, Song Liu +5

The metal-insulator transition (MIT) driven by electronic correlations is a fundamental and challenging problem in condensed-matter physics. Particularly, whether such a transition…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 295 cited

Zero-field superconducting diode effect in small-twist-angle trilayer graphene

Jiang-Xiazi Lin, Phum Siriviboon, Harley D. Scammell +7

The critical current of a superconductor can be different for opposite directions of current flow when both time-reversal and inversion symmetry are broken. %When time-reversal and…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 9 cited

A new flavor of correlation and superconductivity in small twist-angle trilayer graphene

Phum Siriviboon, Jiang-Xiazi Lin, Xiaoxue Liu +8

When layers of graphene are rotationally misaligned by the magic angle, the moiré superlattice features extremely flat bands. Due to the enhanced density of states, the Coulomb int…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 557 cited

Interfacial ferroelectricity in rhombohedral-stacked bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides

Xirui Wang, Kenji Yasuda, Yang Zhang +6

Van der Waals (vdW) materials have greatly expanded our design space of heterostructures by allowing individual layers to be stacked at non-equilibrium configurations, for example…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 4 cited

Dipolar excitonic insulator in a moire lattice

Jie Gu, Liguo Ma, Song Liu +5

Two-dimensional (2D) moire materials provide a new solid-state platform with unprecedented controllability for studies of correlated quantum phenomena. To date, experimental studie…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021

Tunable quantum confinement of neutral excitons using electric fields and exciton-charge interactions

Deepankur Thureja, Atac Imamoglu, Tomasz Smolenski +10

Quantum confinement is the discretization of energy when motion of particles is restricted to length scales smaller than their de Broglie wavelength. The experimental realization o…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 151 cited

Spin-orbit driven ferromagnetism at half moiré filling in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

Jiang-Xiazi Lin, Ya-Hui Zhang, Erin Morissette +7

Strong electron correlation and spin-orbit coupling (SOC) provide two non-trivial threads to condensed matter physics. When these two strands of physics come together, a plethora o…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 228 cited

Deep moiré potentials in twisted transition metal dichalcogenide bilayers

Sara Shabani, Dorri Halbertal, Wenjing Wu +7

In twisted bilayers of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), a combination of structural rippling and electronic coupling gives rise to periodic moiré potentials…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 235 cited

Stripe phases in WSe2/WS2 moiré superlattices

Chenhao Jin, Zui Tao, Tingxin Li +10

Stripe phases, in which the rotational symmetry of charge density is spontaneously broken, occur in many strongly correlated systems with competing interactions. One representative…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 78 cited

Creation of moiré bands in a monolayer semiconductor by spatially periodic dielectric screening

Yang Xu, Connor Horn, Jiacheng Zhu +9

Moiré superlattices of two-dimensional van der Waals materials have emerged as a powerful platform for designing electronic band structures and discovering emergent physical phenom…