Moiré Kramers-Weyl Fermions with Ideal Radial Spin Texture from Structural Chirality
We demonstrate that two-dimensional Kramers-Weyl fermions can be engineered in spin-orbit coupled twisted bilayers, where the chiral structure of these moiré systems breaks all mirror symmetries, confining Kramers-Weyl fermions to high-symmetry points in the Brillouin zone under time reversal symmetry. Our theoretical analysis reveals a symmetry-enforced, Weyl-like spinful interlayer moiré coupling that universally ensures an ideal radial spin-texture at arbitrary twist angles, under C_{nz} symmetry with n>2. First principles density functional calculation confirm the realization of these fermions in twisted α-In_{2}Se_{3} homobilayers, where flat bands and out-of-plane ferroelectric polarization in each layer guarantee two-dimensional Kramers-Weyl physics with ideal radial spin textures.
Authors
- Tony Low (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5759-5899)
- D. J. P. de Sousa
- Seungjun Lee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8197-1287)
Institutions
- University of Minnesota System (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical Review Letters
- Published
- 2025-04-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.134.166401
- Citations
- 5
- Primary Topic
- Topological Materials and Phenomena
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 6.23
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- National Research Foundation of Korea
- Ministry of Education, Science and Technology
- Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative
- Office of Naval Research