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most citedObservation of Wigner crystal of electrons in a monolayer semiconductor

237 citations · 574 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

cond-mat.str-el2026

Attraction from repulsion in an interacting Chern band: chiral superconductivity, generalized Hall crystals, and competing fractional Chern insulators

Fabian Pichler, Clemens Kuhlenkamp, Ashvin Vishwanath +1

Experiments realizing strong interactions in partially filled Chern bands have observed fractional Chern insulators (FCIs), superconductors, and topological crystals in close proxi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Out-of-equilibrium spin-valley dynamics of ferromagnets in topological Chern bands

J. James, I. Krastilevskiy, F. Pichler +8

Understanding quantum matter far from equilibrium is a central goal of modern physics. Twisted MoTe2 bilayers constitute a promising platform for exploring this frontier by combini…

cond-mat.quant-gas2026

Dynamical preparation of U(1) quantum spin liquids in an analogue quantum simulator

Simon Karch, Melissa Will, Irene Prieto Rodriguez +7

Locally constrained gauge theories underpin our understanding of fundamental interactions in particle physics and the emergent behaviour of quantum materials. In strongly correlate…

cond-mat.str-el2025★ 2 cited

False Vacuum Decay in Flat-Band Ferromagnets: Role of Quantum Geometry and Chiral Edge States

Fabian Pichler, Clemens Kuhlenkamp, Michael Knap

Dynamical control of quantum matter is a challenging, yet promising direction for probing strongly correlated states. Motivated by recent experiments in twisted MoTe that demon…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Robust superconductivity upon doping chiral spin liquid and Chern insulators in a Hubbard-Hofstadter model

Clemens Kuhlenkamp, Stefan Divic, Michael P. Zaletel +2

Demonstrating superconductivity in purely repulsive Hubbard models is a compelling goal which underscores the counter-intuitive ability of Coulomb interactions to mediate supercond…

cond-mat.str-el2025★ 16 cited

Microscopic Mechanism of Anyon Superconductivity Emerging from Fractional Chern Insulators

Fabian Pichler, Clemens Kuhlenkamp, Michael Knap +1

Fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states and superconductors typically require contrasting conditions, yet recent experiments have observed them in the same device. A natural explanati…

cond-mat.str-el2024

First order Quantum Hall to Wigner crystal phase transition on a triangular lattice: an iDMRG study

Gleb Fedorovich, Clemens Kuhlenkamp, Atac Imamoglu +1

In this work we study a system of interacting fermions on a triangular lattice in the presence of an external magnetic field. We neglect spin and fix a density of one third, with o…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 9 cited

Single-particle spectral function of fractional quantum anomalous Hall states

Fabian Pichler, Wilhelm Kadow, Clemens Kuhlenkamp +1

Fractional quantum Hall states are the most prominent example of states with topological order, hosting excitations with fractionalized charge. Recent experiments in twisted $\text…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 2 cited

Tuning transport in solid-state Bose-Fermi mixtures by Feshbach resonances

Caterina Zerba, Clemens Kuhlenkamp, Léo Mangeolle +1

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterostructures have emerged as promising platforms for realizing tunable Bose-Fermi mixtures. Their constituents are fermionic charge carrie…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 15 cited

Probing magnetism in moiré heterostructures with quantum twisting microscopes

Fabian Pichler, Wilhelm Kadow, Clemens Kuhlenkamp +1

Spin-ordered states close to metal-insulator transitions are poorly understood theoretically and challenging to probe in experiments. Here, we propose that the quantum twisting mic…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 22 cited

Realizing Topological Superconductivity in Tunable Bose-Fermi Mixtures with Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Heterostructures

Caterina Zerba, Clemens Kuhlenkamp, Ataç Imamoğlu +1

Heterostructures of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are emerging as a promising platform for investigating exotic correlated states of matter. Here, we prop…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 4 cited

Feshbach Resonances in Exciton-Charge-Carrier Scattering in Semiconductor Bilayers

Marcel Wagner, Rafał Ołdziejewski, Félix Rose +4

Feshbach resonances play a vital role in the success of cold atoms investigating strongly-correlated physics. The recent observation of their solid-state analog in the scattering o…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 30 cited

Chiral Pseudo Spin Liquids in Moire Heterostructures

Clemens Kuhlenkamp, Wilhelm Kadow, Atac Imamoglu +1

We propose multi-layer moire structures in strong external magnetic fields as a novel platform for realizing highly-tunable, frustrated Hubbard physics with topological order. Iden…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 15 cited

Thermal and dissipative effects on the heating transition in a driven critical system

Kenny Choo, Bastien Lapierre, Clemens Kuhlenkamp +3

We study the dissipative dynamics of a periodically driven inhomogeneous critical lattice model in one dimension. The closed system dynamics starting from pure initial states is we…

cond-mat.quant-gas2022★ 6 cited

Universal transport in periodically driven systems without long-lived quasiparticles

Iliya Esin, Clemens Kuhlenkamp, Gil Refael +3

An intriguing regime of universal charge transport at high entropy density has been proposed for periodically driven interacting one-dimensional systems with Bloch bands separated…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 12 cited

Optical signatures of periodic magnetization: the moiré Zeeman effect

Alex Gómez Salvador, Clemens Kuhlenkamp, Livio Ciorciaro +2

Detecting magnetic order at the nanoscale is of central interest for the study of quantum magnetism in general, and the emerging field of moiré magnets in particular. Here, we anal…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 57 cited

Observation of electrically tunable Feshbach resonances in twisted bilayer semiconductors

Ido Schwartz, Yuya Shimazaki, Clemens Kuhlenkamp +4

Moire superlattices in twisted transition metal dichalcogenide bilayers have emerged as a rich platform for exploring strong correlations using optical spectroscopy. Despite observ…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 27 cited

Tunable Feshbach resonances and their spectral signatures in bilayer semiconductors

Clemens Kuhlenkamp, Michael Knap, Marcel Wagner +2

Feshbach resonances are an invaluable tool in atomic physics, enabling precise control of interactions and the preparation of complex quantum phases of matter. Here, we theoretical…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 237 cited

Observation of Wigner crystal of electrons in a monolayer semiconductor

T. Smoleński, P. E. Dolgirev, C. Kuhlenkamp +9

When the Coulomb repulsion between electrons dominates over their kinetic energy, electrons in two dimensional systems were predicted to spontaneously break continuous translation…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 72 cited

Optical signatures of charge order in a Mott-Wigner state

Yuya Shimazaki, Clemens Kuhlenkamp, Ido Schwartz +7

The elementary optical excitations in two dimensional semiconductors hosting itinerant electrons are attractive and repulsive polarons -- excitons that are dynamically screened by…

cond-mat.str-el2019★ 48 cited

Periodically Driven Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Models

Clemens Kuhlenkamp, Michael Knap

Periodically driven quantum matter can realize exotic dynamical phases. In order to understand how ubiquitous and robust these phases are, it is pertinent to investigate the heatin…