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most citedHigher Order Topological Phases: A General Principle of Construction

219 citations · 617 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

cond-mat.str-el2026

Pairing from repulsive interactions in twisted WSe2 from functional renormalization

Hannes Braun, Dumitru Călugăru, Pietro M. Bonetti +9

Motivated by the observation of superconductivity in twisted bilayer WSe over an extended range of displacement fields, reaching from the correlated insulator down to zero fiel…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Emergent Interacting Phases in the Strong Coupling Limit of Twisted M-Valley Moiré Systems: Application to SnSe

Ming-Rui Li, Dumitru Calugaru, Yi Jiang +10

We construct an interacting Wannier model for both AA-stacked and AB-stacked twisted SnSe2, revealing a rich landscape of correlated quantum phases. For the AA-stacked case, the sy…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Ideal Topological Flat Bands in Two-dimensional Moiré Heterostructures with Type-II Band Alignment

Yunzhe Liu, Anoj Aryal, Kaijie Yang +6

Topological flat bands play an essential role in inducing exotic interacting physics, ranging from fractional Chern insulators to superconductivity, in moiré materials. In this wor…

cond-mat.supr-con2025

Resolving Intervalley Gaps and Many-Body Resonances in Moiré Superconductor

Hyunjin Kim, Gautam Rai, Lorenzo Crippa +15

Magic-angle twisted multilayer graphene stands out as a highly tunable class of moiré materials that exhibit strong electronic correlations and robust superconductivity. However, u…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Fragility of local moments against hybridization with flat bands

Max Fischer, Arianna Poli, Lorenzo Crippa +5

The Kondo screening of a localized magnetic moment crucially depends on the spectral properties of the electronic bath to which it is coupled. Unlike textbook examples, realistic s…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 13 cited

A New Moiré Platform Based on M-Point Twisting

Dumitru Călugăru, Yi Jiang, Haoyu Hu +9

We introduce a new class of moiré systems and materials based on monolayers with triangular lattices and low-energy states at the M points of the Brillouin zone. These M-point moir…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 11 cited

Frustrated charge density wave and quasi-long-range bond-orientational order in the magnetic kagome FeGe

D. Subires, A. Kar, A. Korshunov +18

The intrinsic frustrated nature of a kagome lattice is amenable to the realization of exotic phases of matter, such as quantum spin liquids or spin ices, and more recently the mult…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 3 cited

Cryo-Near-Field Photovoltage Microscopy of Heavy-Fermion Twisted Symmetric Trilayer Graphene

Sergi Batlle-Porro, Dumitru Calugaru, Haoyu Hu +7

Ever since the initial experimental observation of correlated insulators and superconductivity in the flat Dirac bands of magic angle twisted bilayer graphene, a search for the mic…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 3 cited

Evidence of heavy fermion physics in the thermoelectric transport of magic angle twisted bilayer graphene

Rafael Luque Merino, Dumitru Calugaru, Haoyu Hu +7

It has been recently postulated, that the strongly correlated flat bands of magicangle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) can host coexisting heavy and light carriers. While transpor…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 16 cited

FeGe as a building block for the kagome 1:1, 1:6:6, and 1:3:5 families: hidden d-orbital decoupling of flat band sectors, effective models and interaction Hamiltonians

Yi Jiang, Haoyu Hu, Dumitru Călugăru +5

The electronic structure and interactions of kagome materials, such as the 1:1 (FeGe) and 1:6:6 (MgFe6Ge6) classes, are complicated and involve many orbitals and bands around the F…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 46 cited

Dynamical correlations and order in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

Gautam Rai, Lorenzo Crippa, Dumitru Călugăru +8

In magic angle twisted bilayer graphene, transport, thermodynamic and spectroscopic experiments pinpoint at a competition between distinct low-energy states with and without electr…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 81 cited

Softening of a flat phonon mode in the kagome ScVSn

A. Korshunov, H. Hu, D. Subires +16

The long range electronic modulations recently discovered in the geometrically frustrated kagome lattice have opened new avenues to explore the effect of correlations in materials…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 35 cited

TBG as Topological Heavy Fermion: II. Analytical approximations of the model parameters

Dumitru Călugăru, Maksim Borovkov, Liam L. H. Lau +3

The recently-introduced Topological Heavy Fermion (THF) model [Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 047601] of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) aims to reconcile the quantum-dot-like electronic str…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 47 cited

Symmetric Kondo Lattice States in Doped Strained Twisted Bilayer Graphene

H. Hu, G. Rai, L. Crippa +7

We use the topological heavy fermion (THF) model and its Kondo Lattice (KL) formulation to study the symmetric Kondo state in twisted bilayer graphene. Via a large-N approximation,…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 19 cited

Thermal spin dynamics of Kitaev magnets scattering continua and magnetic field induced phases within a stochastic semiclassical approach

Oliver Franke, Dumitru Călugăru, Andreas Nunnenkamp +1

The honeycomb magnet RuCl is a prime candidate material for realizing the Kitaev quantum spin liquid (QSL), but it shows long-range magnetic order at low temperature. Never…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 49 cited

Spectroscopy of Twisted Bilayer Graphene Correlated Insulators

Dumitru Călugăru, Nicolas Regnault, Myungchul Oh +6

We analytically compute the scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) signatures of integer-filled correlated ground states of the magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) narrow bands…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 4 cited

General Construction and Topological Classification of All Magnetic and Non-Magnetic Flat Bands

Dumitru Călugăru, Aaron Chew, Luis Elcoro +3

Exotic phases of matter emerge from the interplay between strong electron interactions and non-trivial topology. Owing to their lack of dispersion at the single-particle level, sys…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 42 cited

TSTG I: Single-Particle and Many-Body Hamiltonians and Hidden Non-local Symmetries of Trilayer Moiré Systems with and without Displacement Field

Dumitru Călugăru, Fang Xie, Zhi-Da Song +3

We derive the Hamiltonian for trilayer moiré systems with the Coulomb interaction projected onto the bands near the charge neutrality point. Motivated by the latest experimental re…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 29 cited

Generalized Triple-Component Fermions: Lattice Model, Fermi arcs, and Anomalous Transport

Snehasish Nandy, Sourav Manna, Dumitru Calugaru +1

We generalize the construction of time-reversal symmetry-breaking triple-component semimetals, transforming under the pseudospin-1 representation, to arbitrary (anti-)monopole char…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 219 cited

Higher Order Topological Phases: A General Principle of Construction

Dumitru Calugaru, Vladimir Juricic, Bitan Roy

We propose a general principle for constructing higher-order topological (HOT) phases. We argue that if a -dimensional first-order or regular topological phase involves Herm…