Engineering Three-Dimensional Moiré Flat Bands

Xian, L. D.; Fischer, A.; Claassen, M.; Zhang, J.; Rubio, A.; Kennes, D. M.

doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c01684

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Engineering Three-Dimensional Moiré Flat Bands

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Xian, L. D.
Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory;
Theory Group, Theory Department, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Max Planck Society;
Center for Free Electron Laser Science;

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Zhang, J.
Theory Group, Theory Department, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Max Planck Society;
Center for Free Electron Laser Science;

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Rubio, A.
Theory Group, Theory Department, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Max Planck Society;
Center for Free Electron Laser Science;
Center for Computational Quantum Physics, Simons Foundation Flatiron Institute;
Nano-Bio Spectroscopy Group, Departamento de Fisica de Materiales, Universidad del País Vasco, UPV/EHU;

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Kennes, D. M.
Theory Group, Theory Department, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Max Planck Society;
Center for Free Electron Laser Science;
Institut für Theorie der Statistischen Physik, RWTH Aachen University and JARA-Fundamentals of Future Information Technology;

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Xian, L. D., Fischer, A., Claassen, M., Zhang, J., Rubio, A., & Kennes, D. M. (2021). Engineering Three-Dimensional Moiré Flat Bands. Nano Letters, 21(18), 7519-7526. doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c01684.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0007-99EB-4

Abstract

Twisting two adjacent layers of van der Waals materials with respect to each other can lead to flat two-dimensional electronic bands which enables a wealth of physical phenomena. Here, we generalize this concept of so-called moiré flat bands to engineer flat bands in all three spatial dimensions controlled by the twist angle. The basic concept is to stack the material such that the large spatial moiré interference patterns are spatially shifted from one twisted layer to the next. We exemplify the general concept by considering graphitic systems, boron nitride, and WSe₂, but the approach is applicable to any two-dimensional van der Waals material. For hexagonal boron nitride, we develop an ab initio fitted tight binding model that captures the corresponding three-dimensional low-energy electronic structure. We outline that interesting three-dimensional correlated phases of matter can be induced and controlled following this route, including quantum magnets and unconventional superconducting states.