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20162026
most citedMoiré heterostructures as a condensed matter quantum simulator

589 citations · 1.1k across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cond-mat.str-el2026

Antiferromagnetism-altered plasmon dynamics

Yifan Su, Suheng Xu, Rocco A. Vitalone +17

The interaction between plasmons and magnons is a long-sought phenomenon with implications for fundamental physics and spintronics applications. In three-dimensional systems, this…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Scalable, Simple, and Versatile Encapsulation of 2D Materials and Devices

Gabriel Natale, Uma Chirkova, Flávio Henriques Feres +16

Air-sensitive 2D materials present a fundamental challenge for device integration. Encapsulation is often required to preserve intrinsic properties, yet conventional protection str…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Ultrafast Charge-Doping via Photo-Thermionic Injection in van der Waals Devices

Yiliu Li, Esteban Rojas-Gatjens, Yinjie Guo +10

Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures of two-dimensional (2D) materials have become a rich playground for the exploration of correlated quantum phases, and recent studies have begun…

physics.optics2025★ 4 cited

Van der Waals waveguide quantum electrodynamics probed by infrared nano-photoluminescence

Samuel L. Moore, Hae Yeon Lee, Nicholas Rivera +15

Atomically layered van der Waals (vdW) materials exhibit remarkable properties, including highly-confined infrared waveguide modes and the capacity for infrared emission in the mon…

cond-mat.str-el2025★ 22 cited

Hidden States and Dynamics of Fractional Fillings in tMoTe2 Moiré Superlattices

Yiping Wang, Jeongheon Choe, Eric Anderson +14

The fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) effect was recently discovered in twisted MoTe2 bilayers (tMoTe2). Experiments to date have revealed Chern insulators from hole doping…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 163 cited

Superconductivity in twisted bilayer WSe

Yinjie Guo, Jordan Pack, Joshua Swann +10

The discovery of superconductivity in twisted bilayer and twisted trilayer graphene has generated tremendous interest. The key feature of these systems is an interplay between inte…

physics.optics2024★ 6 cited

Twisted nonlinear optics in monolayer van der Waals crystals

Tenzin Norden, Luis M. Martinez, Nehan Tarefder +13

In addition to a plethora of emergent phenomena, the spatial topology of optical vortices enables an array of applications spanning communications to quantum photonics. Nonlinear o…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 12 cited

Coherent Modulation of Two-Dimensional Moiré States with On-Chip THz Waves

Yiliu Li, Eric A. Arsenault, Birui Yang +11

Van der Waals (vdW) structures of two-dimensional materials host a broad range of physical phenomena. New opportunities arise if different functional layers may be remotely modulat…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 2 cited

Electronic interactions in Dirac fluids visualized by nano-terahertz spacetime interference of electron-photon quasiparticles

Suheng Xu, Yutao Li, Rocco A. Vitalone +15

Ultraclean graphene at charge neutrality hosts a quantum critical Dirac fluid of interacting electrons and holes. Interactions profoundly affect the charge dynamics of graphene, wh…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 51 cited

Visualizing moiré ferroelectricity via plasmons and nano-photocurrent in graphene/twisted-WSe2 structures

Shuai Zhang, Yang Liu, Zhiyuan Sun +28

Ferroelectricity, a spontaneous and reversible electric polarization, is found in certain classes of van der Waals (vdW) material heterostructures. The discovery of ferroelectricit…

physics.optics2021

Nanoscale Optical Imaging of 2D Semiconductor Stacking Orders by Exciton-Enhanced Second Harmonic Generation

Kaiyuan Yao, Shuai Zhang, Emanuil Yanev +9

Second harmonic generation (SHG) is a nonlinear optical response arising exclusively from broken inversion symmetry in the electric-dipole limit. Recently, SHG has attracted widesp…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 52 cited

Intrinsic Donor-Bound Excitons in Ultraclean Monolayer Semiconductors

Pasqual Rivera, Minhao He, Bumho Kim +16

The monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides are an emergent semiconductor platform exhibiting rich excitonic physics with coupled spin-valley degree of freedom and optical addre…

quant-ph2020★ 589 cited

Moiré heterostructures as a condensed matter quantum simulator

Dante M. Kennes, Martin Claassen, Lede Xian +7

Twisted van der Waals heterostructures have latterly received prominent attention for their many remarkable experimental properties, and the promise that they hold for realising el…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 166 cited

Engineering the structural and electronic phases of MoTe2 through W substitution

D. Rhodes, D. A. Chenet, B. E. Janicek +30

MoTe is an exfoliable transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) which crystallizes in three symmetries, the semiconducting trigonal-prismatic phase, the semimetallic $1T^{\pri…