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most citedGate-tunable heavy fermions in a moiré Kondo lattice

128 citations · 167 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Stacking-order-dependent electronic properties of MoTe2/WSe2 moiré bilayers

Zhongdong Han, Wenjin Zhao, Eegene Clara Chung +17

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) moiré bilayers have realized a wide range of strongly correlated and topological phenomena. The physics in these materials is often sensitive…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Emergence of a symmetry-broken Chern insulator near a moiré Kondo breakdown

Wanghao Tian, Bowen Shen, Lizhong Li +14

Moiré semiconductors built on angle-aligned transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterobilayers provide a physical realization of the Kondo lattice model, in which one TMD layer i…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Electric-field-tuned consecutive topological phase transitions between distinct correlated insulators in moire MoTe2/WSe2 heterobilayer

Xumin Chang, Zui Tao, Bowen Shen +10

Consecutive topological phase transitions (TPTs) between strongly correlated electronic phases that differ simultaneously in symmetry breaking and topological order are of fundamen…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Emergence of Chern metal in a moiré Kondo lattice

Wenjin Zhao, Zui Tao, Yichi Zhang +9

A Chern metal is a two-dimensional metallic state of matter carrying chiral edge states. It can emerge as a doped Chern insulator, but theoretical studies have also predicted its e…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 2 cited

Time-reversal symmetry breaking fractional quantum spin Hall insulator in moiré MoTe2

Kaifei Kang, Yichen Qiu, Bowen Shen +7

Twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors, which support flat Chern bands with enhanced interaction effects, realize a platform for fractional Chern insulators…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 2 cited

Observation of the fractional quantum spin Hall effect in moiré MoTe2

Kaifei Kang, Bowen Shen, Yichen Qiu +4

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators are two-dimensional electronic materials that have a bulk band gap like an ordinary insulator but have topologically protected pairs of edge mode…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 3 cited

Emergence of ferromagnetism at the onset of moiré Kondo breakdown

Wenjin Zhao, Bowen Shen, Zui Tao +9

The interaction of a lattice of localized magnetic moments with a sea of conduction electrons in Kondo lattice models induces rich quantum phases of matter, such as Fermi liquids w…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 8 cited

Observation of spin polarons in a frustrated moiré Hubbard system

Zui Tao, Wenjin Zhao, Bowen Shen +5

The electron's kinetic energy plays a pivotal role in magnetism. While virtual electron hopping promotes antiferromagnetism in an insulator, the real process usually favors ferroma…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 9 cited

Optical readout of the chemical potential of two-dimensional electrons

Zhengchao Xia, Yihang Zeng, Bowen Shen +5

The chemical potential u of an electron system is a fundamental property of a solid. A precise measurement of u plays a crucial role in understanding the electron interaction and q…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 1 cited

Giant spin Hall effect in AB-stacked MoTe2/WSe2 bilayers

Zui Tao, Bowen Shen, Wenjin Zhao +9

The spin Hall effect (SHE), in which electrical current generates transverse spin current, plays an important role in spintronics for the generation and manipulation of spin-polari…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 128 cited

Gate-tunable heavy fermions in a moiré Kondo lattice

Wenjin Zhao, Bowen Shen, Zui Tao +6

The Kondo lattice, describing a matrix of local magnetic moments coupled via spin-exchange interactions to itinerant conduction electrons, is a prototype of strongly correlated qua…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 14 cited

Valley-coherent quantum anomalous Hall state in AB-stacked MoTe2/WSe2 bilayers

Zui Tao, Bowen Shen, Shengwei Jiang +11

Moiré materials provide fertile ground for the correlated and topological quantum phenomena. Among them, the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect, in which the Hall resistance is qu…