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Quantized Transport through a Supermoiré Chern Mosaic
Li-Qiao Xia, Aviram Uri, Zachary W. Gomez +8
Magic-angle helical trilayer graphene---three graphene layers sequentially twisted in the same direction by ---relaxes into a mosaic of domains that, at zero field,…
The "Moiré Capacitor Effect" and Stabilization of Fractional Chern Insulators in Rhombohedral Graphene Superlattices
Nicolas Regnault, Heqiu Li, Yves H. Kwan +2
While the necessity of a moiré potential for fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) in rhombohedral graphene-hBN superlattices, first predicted in Ref. 1, is now grounded in experiment…
Fermiology and the Candidate Chiral Superconductor in Rhombohedral Tetralayer Graphene
Sandesh S. Kalantre, Ben H. Alexander, Julian May-Mann +11
Chiral superconductivity, in which the phase of the superconducting order parameter winds in momentum space, has long been sought for its close link to topological superconductivit…
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…
Strain-Tuned Incommensurate Kekulé Spiral Order in Twisted Bilayer Graphene: a Quantum Many-Body Study
Cheng Huang, Yves H. Kwan, Maksim Ulybyshev +3
The physics of twisted bilayer graphene away from the exactly solvable chiral limit and the quantum Monte Carlo sign-problem-free charge neutrality point is elusive due to the expo…
Mesoscopic transport in a Chern mosaic
Sayak Bhattacharjee, Julian May-Mann, Yves H. Kwan +2
We analyze mesoscopic electronic transport in a Chern mosaic: a regular pattern of domains whose electronic bands carry differing local Chern numbers. An example platform where a C…
Electrically controllable valence-conduction band reversals in helical trilayer graphene
Matan Bocarsly, Indranil Roy, Weifeng Zhi +11
In moiré graphene systems, electronic interactions lift spin and valley degeneracies, leading to symmetry-broken ground states. In helical trilayer graphene (HTG), we uncover a dis…
Candidate for a Fractional Topological Insulator in Twisted MoTe2
Yiping Wang, Gillian E. Minarik, Weijie Li +15
The interplay among electronic correlation, topology, and time-reversal-symmetry (TRS) often leads to exotic quantum states of matter, as highlighted by the discoveries of fraction…
Mean-field Modelling of Moiré Materials: A User's Guide with Selected Applications to Twisted Bilayer Graphene
Yves H. Kwan, Ziwei Wang, Glenn Wagner +3
We review the theoretical modelling of moiré materials, focusing on various aspects of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MA-TBG) viewed through the lens of Hartree-Fock mean-fi…
Putting a new spin on the incommensurate Kekulé spiral: from spin-valley locking and collective modes to fermiology and implications for superconductivity
Ziwei Wang, Glenn Wagner, Yves H. Kwan +3
We revisit the global phase diagram of magic-angle twisted bilayer and [symmetric] trilayer graphene (MA-TBG/TSTG) in light of recent scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) measuremen…
Fractional Chern mosaic in supermoiré graphene
Yves H. Kwan, Tixuan Tan, Trithep Devakul
We propose the realization of a fractional Chern mosaic: a state characterized by a spatially varying topological order. This state is enabled by a separation of length scales that…
Moiré Fractional Chern Insulators IV: Fluctuation-Driven Collapse of FCIs in Multi-Band Exact Diagonalization Calculations on Rhombohedral Graphene
Jiabin Yu, Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman, Yves H. Kwan +2
The fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) observed in pentalayer rhombohedral graphene/hexagonal boron nitride superlattices have a unique origin contrary to theoretical expectations:…
When Could Abelian Fractional Topological Insulators Exist in Twisted MoTe (and Other Systems)
Yves H. Kwan, Glenn Wagner, Jiabin Yu +6
Using comprehensive exact diagonalization calculations on twisted bilayer MoTe (MoTe), as well as idealized Landau level models also relevant for…
Textured Exciton Insulators
Yves H. Kwan, Ziwei Wang, Glenn Wagner +3
We introduce and study new interacting topological states that arise in time-reversal symmetric bands with an underlying obstruction to forming localized states. If the vall…
Chern-Textured Exciton Insulators with Valley Spiral Order in Moiré Materials
Ziwei Wang, Yves H. Kwan, Glenn Wagner +3
We explore the phase diagrams of moiré materials in search of a new class of intervalley-coherent correlated insulating state: the Chern texture insulator (CTI). This phase of matt…
Moiré Fractional Chern Insulators III: Hartree-Fock Phase Diagram, Magic Angle Regime for Chern Insulator States, the Role of the Moiré Potential and Goldstone Gaps in Rhombohedral Graphene Superlattices
Yves H. Kwan, Jiabin Yu, Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman +3
We investigate in detail the displacement-field-tuned interacting phase diagram of layer rhombohedral graphene aligned to hBN (RG/hBN). Our calculations acc…
Kekulé spirals and charge transfer cascades in twisted symmetric trilayer graphene
Ziwei Wang, Yves H. Kwan, Glenn Wagner +3
We study the phase diagram of magic-angle twisted symmetric trilayer graphene in the presence of uniaxial heterostrain and interlayer displacement field. For experimentally reasona…
Helical trilayer graphene: a moiré platform for strongly-interacting topological bands
Li-Qiao Xia, Sergio C. de la Barrera, Aviram Uri +9
Quantum geometry of electronic wavefunctions results in fascinating topological phenomena. A prominent example is the intrinsic anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in which a Hall voltage…
Coulomb-driven band unflattening suppresses -phonon pairing in moiré graphene
Glenn Wagner, Yves H. Kwan, Nick Bultinck +2
It is a matter of current debate whether the gate-tunable superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene is phonon-mediated or arises from electron-electron interactions. The recent…
Strong-coupling topological states and phase transitions in helical trilayer graphene
Yves H. Kwan, Patrick J. Ledwith, Chiu Fan Bowen Lo +1
Magic-angle helical trilayer graphene relaxes into commensurate moiré domains, whose topological and well-isolated set of narrow bands possess ideal characteristics for realizing r…
Supersymmetry on the honeycomb lattice: resonating charge stripes, superfrustration, and domain walls
Patrick H. Wilhelm, Yves H. Kwan, Andreas M. Läuchli +1
We study a model of spinless fermions on the honeycomb lattice with nearest-neighbor exclusion and extended repulsive interactions that exhibits `lattice supersymmetry' [P. Fendley…
Minimal Hubbard models of maximal Hilbert space fragmentation
Yves H. Kwan, Patrick H. Wilhelm, Sounak Biswas +1
We show that Hubbard models with nearest-neighbor hopping and a nearest-neighbor hardcore constraint exhibit `maximal' Hilbert space fragmentation in many lattices of arbitrary dim…
Electron-phonon coupling and competing Kekulé orders in twisted bilayer graphene
Yves H. Kwan, Glenn Wagner, Nick Bultinck +3
Recent scanning tunneling microscopy experiments [K.P. Nuckolls et al., arXiv:2303.00024] have revealed the ubiquity of Kekulé charge-density wave order in magic-angle twisted bila…
Superconductivity from repulsive interactions in Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene
Glenn Wagner, Yves H. Kwan, Nick Bultinck +2
A striking series of experiments have observed superconductivity in Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene (BBG) when the energy bands are flattened by applying an electrical displacement…