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Distilling universal machine-learning potentials for moiré lattices across one million atoms
Thomas Huang, Yueyao Fan, Kaichen Xie +7
Atomic reconstruction reshapes moiré materials across multiple scales, from local structure and polarization textures to global electronic topology, yet direct \textit{ab initio} m…
Haldane-Holstein model at fractional filling: Route to bosonic fractional Chern insulator and quantum anomalous Hall crystal
Zezhu Wei, Ang-Kun Wu, Di Xiao +1
Electron-phonon coupling is generally expected to suppress band topology, driving a topological band insulator into a trivial phase. Here we show that, using the prototypical Halda…
Tunable Multiband Geometry and Fractional Phases in Higher Vortexable Systems
Xiaohan Wan, Siddhartha Sarkar, Ting Cao +3
Higher vortexability is often viewed as a route to topological flat bands with higher-Landau-level-like quantum geometry. Here we emphasize a complementary perspective: it provides…
Topological Charge-Transfer Excitons
Huiyuan Zheng, Kaijie Yang, Ting Cao +1
Excitons possess internal structure absent from single-particle Bloch particles, allowing their band topology to emerge from the bound-state structure rather than being inherited f…
Electrically Programmable Correlated Topology and Magnetism in a Moiré Trilayer
Christiano Wang Beach, Courtney Baier, Kaijie Yang +15
Strong electron-electron interactions underlie a wide range of quantum many-body phenomena, including magnetism, superconductivity, and charge fractionalization. A central goal is…
Switching Chern number by sliding and gating in alternately twisted tetralayer MoTe2
Xiao-Wei Zhang, Kaijie Yang, Xiaodong Xu +2
Switching the bulk Chern number in topological materials is of central importance for the design of topological electronic devices. Motivated by recent observations of integer and…
Ward identities and orbital magnetization in current density functional theory
Giovanni Vignale, Junren Shi, Di Xiao +1
We revisit the derivation of the orbital magnetization formula for periodic crystals in current density functional theory (CDFT)[1]. Our new derivation computes the linear response…
Nonadiabatic Theory of Phonon Magnetic Moments in Insulators and Metals
Haoran Chen, Wenqin Chen, Kaijie Yang +2
We develop a nonadiabatic theory of phonon magnetic moments applicable to both insulators and metals. By relating the phonon magnetic moment to the force-velocity response of ions…
Quantum Geometric Quadrupole of Cooper Pairs
Wenqin Chen, Kaijie Yang, Ting Cao +3
The size of Cooper pairs defines a fundamental length scale of superconductivity, conventionally set by band dispersion and the superconducting gap. This picture breaks down in fla…
Van Hove Singularity-Driven Topological Magnetism in Twisted MoTe2
Heonjoon Park, Julian Stewart, Xiao-Wei Zhang +15
Van Hove singularities (vHSs) strongly amplify electron interactions and can stabilize correlated phases in topological bands. Here we report signatures of topological magnetism in…
Giant and Helical Exciton Dipole from Berry Curvature in Flat Chern Bands
Kaijie Yang, Huiyuan Zheng, Xiaodong Xu +2
We show that excitons forming between moiré flat Chern bands possess a substantial electric dipole moment comparable to the moiré lattice parameter times the elementary charge ($\s…
Crystallization in the Fractional Quantum Hall Regime with Disorder-Aware Neural Quantum States
Jihang Zhu, Yi Huang, Xiaodong Hu +2
We present the first microscopic demonstration of a disorder-pinned hole Wigner crystal (WC), providing a natural explanation for the reentrant integer quantum Hall effect observed…
Layerwise Stratification and Band Reordering in Twisted Multilayer MoTe
Yueyao Fan, Xiao-Wei Zhang, Yusen Ye +5
We introduce a generalizable, physics informed strategy for generating training data that enables a machine learning force field accurate over a broad range of twist angles and sta…
Orbital Magnetization of Correlated States in Twisted Bilayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
Xiaoyu Liu, Chong Wang, Haoran Chen +3
Recent observations of quantum anomalous Hall effects in moiré systems have revealed the emergence of interaction-driven ferromagnetism with significant orbital contributions. To c…
Twist-angle transferable continuum model and second flat Chern band in twisted MoTe2 and WSe2
Xiao-Wei Zhang, Kaijie Yang, Chong Wang +3
We develop a twist-angle transferable continuum model for twisted transition metal dichalcogenide (tTMD) homobilayers, using tMoTe2 and tWSe2 as examples. All model parameters are…
Universal Magnetic Phases in Twisted Bilayer MoTe
Weijie Li, Evgeny Redekop, Christiano Wang Beach +15
Twisted bilayer MoTe (tMoTe) has emerged as a robust platform for exploring correlated topological phases, notably supporting fractional Chern insulator (FCI) states at zer…
Geometric Origin of Phonon Magnetic Moment in Dirac Materials
Wenqin Chen, Xiao-Wei Zhang, Ting Cao +2
We develop a theory for the phonon magnetic moment in doped Dirac materials, treating phonons as emergent gauge and gravitational fields coupled to Dirac fermions in curved space.…
Realization of fermionic Laughlin state on a quantum processor
Lingnan Shen, Mao Lin, Cedric Yen-Yu Lin +2
Strongly correlated topological phases of matter are central to modern condensed matter physics and quantum information technology but often challenging to probe and control in mat…
Adiabatic Pumping of Orbital Magnetization by Spin Precession
Yafei Ren, Wenqin Chen, Chong Wang +2
We propose adiabatic pumping of orbital magnetization driven by coherent spin precession, facilitating the rectification of this precession. The orbital magnetization originates fr…
Visualizing the microscopic origins of topology in twisted molybdenum ditelluride
Ellis Thompson, Keng Tou Chu, Florie Mesple +14
In moiré materials with flat electronic bands and suitable quantum geometry, strong correlations can give rise to novel topological states of matter. The nontrivial band topology o…
Gauge theory of giant phonon magnetic moment in doped Dirac semimetals
Wenqin Chen, Xiao-Wei Zhang, Ying Su +3
We present a quantum theory of phonon magnetic moment in doped Dirac semimetals. Our theory is based on an emergent gauge field approach to the electron-phonon coupling, applicable…
Proximity-Induced Exchange Interaction: a New Pathway for Quantum Sensing using Spin Centers in Hexagonal Boron Nitride
Lingnan Shen, Di Xiao, Ting Cao
Defects in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), a two-dimensional van der Waals material, have raised wide range interest for its potential in various quantum applications. Due to hBN's…
Higher Landau-Level Analogs and Signatures of Non-Abelian States in Twisted Bilayer MoTe
Chong Wang, Xiao-Wei Zhang, Xiaoyu Liu +3
Recent experimental discovery of fractional Chern insulators at zero magnetic field in moiré superlattices has sparked intense interests in bringing Landau level physics to flat Ch…