Topological excitons in moiré <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>MoTe</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo>/</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi>WSe</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:mrow></mml
Due to the presence of flat Chern bands, moiré transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayers are a platform to realize strongly correlated topological phases of fermions such as fractional Chern insulators. TMDs are also known to host long-lived excitons, which inherit the topology of the underlying Chern bands. For the particular example of <a:math xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><a:msub><a:mi>MoTe</a:mi><a:mn>2</a:mn></a:msub><a:mo>/</a:mo><a:msub><a:mi>WSe</a:mi><a:mn>2</a:mn></a:msub></a:math> heterobilayers we perform a time-dependent Hartree-Fock calculation to identify a regime in the phase diagram where the excitons themselves form a topological flat band. This paves a way towards realizing strongly correlated states of bosons in moiré TMDs.
Authors
- Glenn Wagner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3154-8995)
- Paul Froese (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3796-8544)
- Titus Neupert (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0604-041X)
Institutions
- University of Toronto (CA)
- University of Zurich (CH)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical Review Research
- Published
- 2025-04-14
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevresearch.7.023047
- Citations
- 8
- Primary Topic
- 2D Materials and Applications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.14
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
- Universität Zürich