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20192026
most citedQuantum anomalous Hall effect from intertwined moiré bands

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18 papers

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.str-el2026

Electric-field-tuned consecutive topological phase transitions between distinct correlated insulators in moire MoTe2/WSe2 heterobilayer

Xumin Chang, Zui Tao, Bowen Shen +10

Consecutive topological phase transitions (TPTs) between strongly correlated electronic phases that differ simultaneously in symmetry breaking and topological order are of fundamen…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Real-Space Quantification of Exciton Localization in Acene Crystals Using Wannier Function Decomposition

Zui Tao, Jonah B. Haber, Jeffrey B. Neaton

We introduce the Wannier function decomposition of excitons (WFDX) method to quantify exciton localization in solids within the ab initio Bethe-Salpeter equation framework. By deco…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Emergence of Chern metal in a moiré Kondo lattice

Wenjin Zhao, Zui Tao, Yichi Zhang +9

A Chern metal is a two-dimensional metallic state of matter carrying chiral edge states. It can emerge as a doped Chern insulator, but theoretical studies have also predicted its e…

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.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.mtrl-sci2023★ 10 cited

Thickness-dependent magnetic properties in Pt[CoNi]n multilayers with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy

Chunjie Yan, Lina Chen, Kaiyuan Zhou +9

We systematically investigated the Ni and Co thickness-dependent perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) coefficient, magnetic domain structures, and magnetization dynamics of Pt(5…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023

Excitation and voltage-gated modulation of single-mode dynamics in a planar nano-gap spin Hall nano-oscillator

Lina Chen, Yu Chen, Zhenyu Gao +5

We experimentally study the dynamical modes excited by current-induced spin-orbit torque and its electrostatic gating effect in a 3-terminal planar nano-gap spin Hall nano-oscillat…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 1 cited

Giant spin Hall effect in AB-stacked MoTe2/WSe2 bilayers

Zui Tao, Bowen Shen, Wenjin Zhao +9

The spin Hall effect (SHE), in which electrical current generates transverse spin current, plays an important role in spintronics for the generation and manipulation of spin-polari…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 128 cited

Gate-tunable heavy fermions in a moiré Kondo lattice

Wenjin Zhao, Bowen Shen, Zui Tao +6

The Kondo lattice, describing a matrix of local magnetic moments coupled via spin-exchange interactions to itinerant conduction electrons, is a prototype of strongly correlated qua…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 2 cited

Current-driven magnetization dynamics and their correlation with magnetization configurations in perpendicularly magnetized tunnel junctions

Kaiyuan Zhou, Lina Chen, Kequn Chi +9

We study spin-transfer-torque driven magnetization dynamics of a perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) nanopillar. Based on the combination of spin-torque ferromagnetic reso…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 14 cited

Valley-coherent quantum anomalous Hall state in AB-stacked MoTe2/WSe2 bilayers

Zui Tao, Bowen Shen, Shengwei Jiang +11

Moiré materials provide fertile ground for the correlated and topological quantum phenomena. Among them, the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect, in which the Hall resistance is qu…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 20 cited

Realization of the Haldane Chern insulator in a moiré lattice

Wenjin Zhao, Kaifei Kang, Lizhong Li +7

The Chern insulator displays a quantized Hall effect without Landau levels. In a landmark paper in 1988, Haldane showed that a Chern insulator could be realized through complex nex…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 3 cited

Air Stable and Layer Dependent Ferromagnetism in Atomically Thin van der Waals CrPS

Joolee Son, Suhan Son, Pyeongjae Park +15

Ferromagnetism in two-dimensional materials presents a promising platform for the development of ultrathin spintronic devices with advanced functionalities. Recently discovered fer…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 572 cited

Quantum anomalous Hall effect from intertwined moiré bands

Tingxin Li, Shengwei Jiang, Bowen Shen +8

Electron correlation and topology are two central threads of modern condensed matter physics. Semiconductor moiré materials provide a highly tunable platform for studies of electro…

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.mes-hall2019★ 56 cited

Imaging and control of critical spin fluctuations in two-dimensional magnets

Chenhao Jin, Zui Tao, Kaifei Kang +4

Strong spin fluctuations are expected near the thermodynamic critical point of a continuous magnetic phase transition. Such critical spin fluctuations are highly correlated and in…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 343 cited

Evolution of interlayer and intralayer magnetism in three atomically thin chromium trihalides

Hyun Ho Kim, Bowen Yang, Siwen Li +16

We conduct a comprehensive study of three different magnetic semiconductors, CrI, CrBr, and CrCl, by incorporating both few- and bi-layer samples in van der Waals tunne…