Programming correlated magnetic states with gate-controlled moiré geometry

E Anderson, FR Fan, J Cai, W Holtzmann, T Taniguchi… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The ability to control the underlying lattice geometry of a system may enable transitions
between emergent quantum ground states. We report in situ gate switching between …

Light-induced ferromagnetism in moiré superlattices

X Wang, C Xiao, H Park, J Zhu, C Wang, T Taniguchi… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Many-body interactions between carriers lie at the heart of correlated physics. The ability to
tune such interactions would allow the possibility to access and control complex electronic …

Intralayer charge-transfer moiré excitons in van der Waals superlattices

MH Naik, EC Regan, Z Zhang, YH Chan, Z Li, D Wang… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Moiré patterns of transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers have proved to be an ideal
platform on which to host unusual correlated electronic phases, emerging magnetism and …

Resonantly hybridized excitons in moiré superlattices in van der Waals heterostructures

EM Alexeev, DA Ruiz-Tijerina, M Danovich, MJ Hamer… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Atomically thin layers of two-dimensional materials can be assembled in vertical stacks that
are held together by relatively weak van der Waals forces, enabling coupling between …

Kinetic magnetism in triangular moiré materials

L Ciorciaro, T Smoleński, I Morera, N Kiper, S Hiestand… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Magnetic properties of materials ranging from conventional ferromagnetic metals to strongly
correlated materials such as cuprates originate from Coulomb exchange interactions. The …

Remote imprinting of moiré lattices

J Gu, J Zhu, P Knuppel, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi… - Nature Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Two-dimensional moiré materials are formed by overlaying two layered crystals with small
differences in orientation or/and lattice constant, where their direct coupling generates moiré …

Mott and generalized Wigner crystal states in WSe2/WS2 moiré superlattices

EC Regan, D Wang, C Jin, MI Bakti Utama, B Gao… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Moiré superlattices can be used to engineer strongly correlated electronic states in two-
dimensional van der Waals heterostructures, as recently demonstrated in the correlated …

Strongly correlated electrons and hybrid excitons in a moiré heterostructure

Y Shimazaki, I Schwartz, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Two-dimensional materials and their heterostructures constitute a promising platform to
study correlated electronic states, as well as the many-body physics of excitons. Transport …

Reproducibility in the fabrication and physics of moiré materials

CN Lau, MW Bockrath, KF Mak, F Zhang - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Overlaying two atomic layers with a slight lattice mismatch or at a small rotation angle
creates a moiré superlattice, which has properties that are markedly modified from (and at …

Evidence of a gate-tunable Mott insulator in a trilayer graphene moiré superlattice

G Chen, L Jiang, S Wu, B Lyu, H Li, BL Chittari… - Nature Physics, 2019 - nature.com
The Mott insulator is a central concept in strongly correlated physics and manifests when the
repulsive Coulomb interaction between electrons dominates over their kinetic energy …