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most citedTightly bound excitons in monolayer WSe2

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58 papers

cond-mat.str-el2026

Monolayer van der Waals kagome lattice for high-temperature flat-band physics

Hyungkun Bong, Choongjae Won, Seongyong Lee +26

Kagome lattice materials host a remarkably rich landscape of novel quantum phenomena, all arising from the intrinsic interplay of topology, correlation, and frustration. While prev…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Extended strange metal and superconductivity in partially filled moiré Hubbard bands

Yiyu Xia, Yichi Zhang, Zhongdong Han +7

Moiré semiconductors provide a physical realization of the Hubbard model. Bandwidth-tuned Mott transitions and complex phase diagrams mimicking those of high-temperature supercondu…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Pairing from repulsive interactions in twisted WSe2 from functional renormalization

Hannes Braun, Dumitru Călugăru, Pietro M. Bonetti +9

Motivated by the observation of superconductivity in twisted bilayer WSe over an extended range of displacement fields, reaching from the correlated insulator down to zero fiel…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Strongly coupled ultracompressed self-cavity plasmon polaritons at millikelvin temperatures

Luojia Zhang, Andrew T. Pierce, Xuepeng Wang +7

Van der Waals heterostructures exhibit self-cavity resonances from sub-terahertz to terahertz frequencies and thus offer an attractive route toward realizing cavity-modified phases…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Competing Chern states revealed by quasiparticle charging in moiré rhombohedral graphene

Hongyuan Li, Zuhan Geng, Junseok Seo +13

Moiré materials realize a versatile platform for exploring the physics of fractional Chern insulators (FCIs). The recently observed evolution from FCIs to an extended quantum anoma…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Trion Hall effect in electron-hole double layers

Raghav Chaturvedi, Phuong X. Nguyen, Patrick Knüppel +4

The realization of Coulomb coupled electron-hole double layers in 2D semiconductor heterostructures has enabled the thermodynamic and transport studies of equilibrium exciton fluid…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Stacking-order-dependent electronic properties of MoTe2/WSe2 moiré bilayers

Zhongdong Han, Wenjin Zhao, Eegene Clara Chung +17

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) moiré bilayers have realized a wide range of strongly correlated and topological phenomena. The physics in these materials is often sensitive…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Engineering topological flat bands in -valley moiré systems with Ising-type SOC: twisted 1T-ZrS and 1T-SnSe

Hanqi Pi, Yves H. Kwan, Haoyu Hu +8

Twisted moiré superlattices hosting topological flat bands provide a platform to explore the interplay between topology and correlations. Here we investigate topological band struc…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Magnetic-field-induced superconductivity in hexalayer rhombohedral graphene

Jinghao Deng, Jiabin Xie, Hongyuan Li +5

In conventional superconductors, superconductivity is generally suppressed by external magnetic fields due to spin-singlet pairing. Here, we report signatures of in-plane-magnetic-…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Evidence of topological Kondo insulating state in MoTe2/WSe2 moiré bilayers

Zhongdong Han, Yiyu Xia, Zhengchao Xia +6

Topological Kondo insulators (TKIs) are topologically protected insulating states induced not by single-particle band inversions, but by the Kondo interaction between itinerant ele…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Quantum oscillations in a dipolar excitonic insulator

Phuong X. Nguyen, Raghav Chaturvedi, Bo Zou +5

Quantum oscillations in magnetization or resistivity are a defining feature of metals subject to an external magnetic field. The phenomenon is generally not expected in insulators…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 13 cited

A New Moiré Platform Based on M-Point Twisting

Dumitru Călugăru, Yi Jiang, Haoyu Hu +9

We introduce a new class of moiré systems and materials based on monolayers with triangular lattices and low-energy states at the M points of the Brillouin zone. These M-point moir…

cond-mat.str-el2024

Correlated states controlled by tunable van Hove singularity in moiré WSe2

Patrick Knüppel, Jiacheng Zhu, Yiyu Xia +7

Twisted bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors have enabled the discovery of superconductivity, ferromagnetism, correlated insulators and a series of new topolo…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 4 cited

Interlayer Fermi polarons of excited exciton states in quantizing magnetic fields

Huiying Cui, Qianying Hu, Xuan Zhao +9

The study of exciton-polarons has offered profound insights into the many-body interactions between bosonic excitations and their immersed Fermi sea within layered heterostructures…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 3 cited

Unconventional superconductivity in twisted bilayer WSe2

Yiyu Xia, Zhongdong Han, Kenji Watanabe +3

Moiré materials have enabled the realization of flat electron bands and quantum phases that are driven by strong correlations associated with flat bands. Superconductivity has been…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Tuning exciton emission via ferroelectric polarization at a heterogeneous interface between a monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide and a perovskite oxide membrane

Jaehong Choi, Kevin J. Crust, Lizhong Li +9

We demonstrate the integration of a thin BaTiO (BTO) membrane with monolayer MoSe in a dual gate device that enables in-situ manipulation of the BTO ferroelectric polarizat…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 2 cited

Observation of the fractional quantum spin Hall effect in moiré MoTe2

Kaifei Kang, Bowen Shen, Yichen Qiu +4

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators are two-dimensional electronic materials that have a bulk band gap like an ordinary insulator but have topologically protected pairs of edge mode…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 3 cited

Observation of the double quantum spin Hall phase in moiré WSe2

Kaifei Kang, Yichen Qiu, Kenji Watanabe +3

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators are a topologically protected phase of matter in two dimensions that can support non-dissipative spin transport. A hallmark of the phase is a pai…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 3 cited

A degenerate trion liquid in atomic double layers

Phuong X. Nguyen, Raghav Chaturvedi, Liguo Ma +5

Trions are a three-particle bound state of electrons and holes. Experimental realization of a trion liquid in the degenerate quantum limit would open a wide range of phenomena in q…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 3 cited

Emergence of ferromagnetism at the onset of moiré Kondo breakdown

Wenjin Zhao, Bowen Shen, Zui Tao +9

The interaction of a lattice of localized magnetic moments with a sea of conduction electrons in Kondo lattice models induces rich quantum phases of matter, such as Fermi liquids w…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 11 cited

Perfect Coulomb drag in a dipolar excitonic insulator

Phuong X. Nguyen, Liguo Ma, Raghav Chaturvedi +4

Excitonic insulators (EIs), arising in semiconductors when the electron-hole binding energy exceeds the band gap, are a solid-state prototype for bosonic phases of matter. Unlike t…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 8 cited

Observation of spin polarons in a frustrated moiré Hubbard system

Zui Tao, Wenjin Zhao, Bowen Shen +5

The electron's kinetic energy plays a pivotal role in magnetism. While virtual electron hopping promotes antiferromagnetism in an insulator, the real process usually favors ferroma…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 9 cited

Optical readout of the chemical potential of two-dimensional electrons

Zhengchao Xia, Yihang Zeng, Bowen Shen +5

The chemical potential u of an electron system is a fundamental property of a solid. A precise measurement of u plays a crucial role in understanding the electron interaction and q…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 535 cited

Integer and fractional Chern insulators in twisted bilayer MoTe2

Yihang Zeng, Zhengchao Xia, Kaifei Kang +7

Chern insulators, which are the lattice analogs of the quantum Hall states, can potentially manifest high-temperature topological orders at zero magnetic field to enable next-gener…