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

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19 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Supermoiré Reconstruction and Topological Mosaics in Twisted Trilayer WSe and MoTe

Hai Meng, Yang Xu, Fengcheng Wu

We investigate lattice relaxation and band structures of helical and alternating twisted trilayer WSe and MoTe using machine-learning force fields and large-scale ab initio…

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-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.mtrl-sci2023

Room-temperature correlated states in twisted bilayer MoS

Fanfan Wu, Qiaoling Xu, Qinqin Wang +20

Moiré superlattices have emerged as an exciting condensed-matter quantum simulator for exploring the exotic physics of strong electronic correlations. Notable progress has been wit…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 13 cited

Gate-tunable multiband transport in ZrTe5 thin devices

Yonghe Liu, Hanqi Pi, Kenji Watanabe +7

Interest in ZrTe5 has been reinvigorated in recent years owing to its potential for hosting versatile topological electronic states and intriguing experimental discoveries. However…

cond-mat.supr-con2023★ 24 cited

Pressure tuning of optical reflectivity in LuH2

Xuan Zhao, Pengfei Shan, Ningning Wang +3

Recently, the claim of room-temperature superconductivity in nitrogen-doped lutetium hydride at near-ambient conditions has attracted tremendous attention. Criticism of the work ri…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 45 cited

Observation of Rydberg moiré excitons

Qianying Hu, Zhen Zhan, Huiying Cui +13

Rydberg excitons, the solid-state counterparts of Rydberg atoms, have sparked considerable interest in harnessing their quantum application potentials, whereas a major challenge is…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 24 cited

Quantum Transport in Graphene Using Surface Acoustic Wave Resonators

Yawen Fang, Yang Xu, Kaifei Kang +7

Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) provide a contactless method for measuring the wavevector-dependent conductivity. This technique has been used to discover emergent length scales in t…

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.str-el2022★ 8 cited

Pomeranchuk Effect and Tunable Quantum Phase Transitions in 3L-MoTe2/WSe2

Mingjie Zhang, Xuan Zhao, Kenji Watanabe +5

Many sought-after exotic states of matter are known to emerge close to quantum phase transitions, such as quantum spin liquids (QSL) and unconventional superconductivity. It is thu…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 139 cited

Tunable bilayer Hubbard model physics in twisted WSe2

Yang Xu, Kaifei Kang, Kenji Watanabe +3

Moiré materials with flat electronic bands provide a highly controllable quantum system for studies of strong-correlation physics and topology. In particular, angle-aligned heterob…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 1 cited

Emergence of a noncollinear magnetic state in twisted bilayer CrI3

Yang Xu, Ariana Ray, Yu-Tsun Shao +8

The emergence of two-dimensional (2D) magnetic crystals and moiré engineering has opened the door for devising new magnetic ground states via competing interactions in moiré superl…

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…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 633 cited

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

Yang Xu, Song Liu, Daniel A Rhodes +6

Quantum particles on a lattice with competing long-range interactions are ubiquitous in physics. Transition metal oxides, layered molecular crystals and trapped ion arrays are a fe…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 13 cited

WSe2/WS2 moiré superlattices: a new Hubbard model simulator

Yanhao Tang, Lizhong Li, Tingxin Li +8

The Hubbard model, first formulated by physicist John Hubbard in the 1960s, is a simple theoretical model of interacting quantum particles in a lattice. The model is thought to cap…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 532 cited

Pressure-controlled interlayer magnetism in atomically thin CrI3

Tingxin Li, Shengwei Jiang, Nikhil Sivadas +9

Stacking order can significantly influence the physical properties of two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals materials. The recent isolation of atomically thin magnetic materials opens…