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most citedHigher Landau-Level Analogs and Signatures of Non-Abelian States in Twisted Bilayer MoTe

42 citations · 77 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

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…

cond-mat.str-el2026

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…

cond-mat.str-el2026

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…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

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…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

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…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

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…

cond-mat.supr-con2026

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…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

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…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

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…

cond-mat.str-el2026

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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

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…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 3 cited

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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

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…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

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.…

quant-ph2025

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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

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…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 21 cited

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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 6 cited

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…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 5 cited

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…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 42 cited

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…