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9 papers

cond-mat.str-el2026

Distinguishing Mott and strain-induced anisotropic semimetals in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene using Landau level spectroscopy

Keshav Singh, Juan Felipe Mendez-Valderrama, Erez Berg +2

Recent quantum twisting microscopy experiments [1] have provided unprecedented momentum- and energy-resolved imaging of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene, revealing a stark dich…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Extracting the full conductivity tensor in a rectangular sample

Julia Gelfond, Oskar Vafek

Electrical transport measurements reveal that many 2D materials exhibit anisotropic conductivity. However, current methodologies for rectangular geometries can only extract a parti…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Ferromagnetism vs. Antiferromagnetism in Narrow-Band Systems: Competition Between Quantum Geometry and Band Dispersion

Haoyu Hu, Oskar Vafek, Kristjan Haule +1

Magnetism in narrow-band systems arises from the interplay between electronic correlations, quantum geometry, and band dispersion. In particular, both ferro and anti-ferro magnets…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Visualizing Symmetry Broken Chern Insulators and their Quantum Melting

Minhao He, Yen-Chen Tsui, Ran Peng +4

In the presence of a magnetic field, electronic states of moiré quantum materials develop a Hofstadter spectrum that provides a unique setting for studying the interplay between b…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Orbital magnetization and magnetic susceptibility of interacting electrons

Jian Kang, Minxuan Wang, Oskar Vafek

We present a rigorous derivation of the orbital magnetization for interacting electrons within the self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation. Our method also allows us to derive f…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Extended Fractional Chern Insulators Near Half Flux in Twisted Bilayer Graphene Above the Magic Angle

Joe Finney, Aaron L. Sharpe, Linsey K. Rodenbach +7

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) -- the lattice analog of fractional quantum Hall states -- form as fractionalized quasiparticles emerge in a partially-filled Chern band. This fr…