The workshop focused on the interplay of mathematics, computation and physics in the theory of Moire materials and featured presentations from leading researchers including participants in the Simons Targeted Grant on Moiré Materials.
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8:00 - 9:00 AM Breakfast & Check In 9:00 - 9:40 AM Philip Kim (Harvard University) Superconducting in Two Dimensional van der Waals Quasicrystals, Ta1.6Te 9:40 - 10:20 AM Xiaodong Xu (University of Washington) Observation of fractional charges via anyon-trions 10:20 - 10:30 AM Break 10:30 - 11:10 AM Senthil Todadri (MIT) Doping fractional quantum anomalous Hall insulators to zero field quantum Hall experiments 11:10 - 11:50 AM Dmitri Efetov (LMU München) Cumulative Phase Diagram of Twisted Bilayer Graphene from Multi-Device Analysis 11:50 AM - 12:30 PM Emanuel Tutuc (University of Texas at Austin) Beyond the Single Moiré: Independently Tunable Flat Bands in a Double Moiré System 12:30 - 2:00 PM Lunch & Poster Session 2:00 - 2:40 PM Maciej Zworski (Berkeley) Mathematics of periodic band inversion 2:40 - 3:20 PM Eslam Khalef (Harvard University) Dynamics of dispersing anyons in moiré flat bands: emergent phases and microscopic origin 3:20 - 3:30 PM Break 3:30 - 4:10 PM Tomohiro Soejima (CCQ, NYU) Topological crystals in two-dimensional materials 4:10 - 4:50 PM Zoe Zhu (Boston College) Relaxation-driven flat bands and topology in moiré transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers 4:50 - 5:30 PM Jed Pixley (Rutgers University) A “critical” take on the magic-angle in twisted bilayer graphene 5:30 - 7:00 PM Reception & Poster Session -
8:00 - 9:00 AM Breakfast 9:00 - 9:45 AM Shiwei Zhang (CCQ) Many-body computation of interacting electrons in 2D: connecting theory, experiment, and mathematics 9:40 - 10:20 AM Eric Cances (Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech) Mathematical and numerical analysis of DFT models: from molecules to moiré materials 10:20 - 10:30 AM Break 10:30 - 11:10 AM Efthimios Kaxiras (Harvard University) Electronic states in twisted bilayer graphene from first principles and implications for correlated-electron behavior 11:10 - 11:50 AM Lin Lin (Berkeley) Ab initio quantum embedding description of interacting magic angle twisted bilayer graphene 11:50 AM - 12:30 PM Päivi Törmä (Aalto University) Quantum Geometric aspects of superconductivity in layered 2D flat-band materials 12:30 - 2:00 PM Lunch & Poster Session 2:40 - 3:20 PM Vieri Mastropietro (Universita' di Roma La Sapienza) Incommensurate twisted bilayer graphene: Emerging quasiperiodicity and stability 3:20 - 3:30 PM Break 3:30 - 4:10 PM Alex Watson (University of Minnesota) Moiré materials in the continuum limit 4:10 - 4:50 PM Hui Deng (University of Michigan) 4:50 - 5:30 PM Leo Li (University of Texas at Austin) Charge Crystalline Order as a Platform for Quantum Hall and Superconducting Phases in Rhombohedral Graphene -
8:00 - 9:00 AM Breakfast 9:00 - 9:40 AM Zhi-Da Song (Peking University) Pairing and Topology in Flat Bands 9:40 - 10:20 AM Vladimir Fal'ko (University of Manchester) Moire structures in van der Waals ferroelectrics 10:20 - 10:30 AM Break 10:30 - 11:10 AM Tobias Wolf (University of Texas at Austin) Rhombohedral graphene multilayers as a non-moiré platform for moiré correlated physics 11:10 - 11:50 AM Rebeca Ribeiro (University of Paris-Saclay) Twist-Angle-Controlled Anomalous Gating in Bilayer Graphene/BN Heterostructures 11:50 AM - 12:30 PM Ivar Martin (University of Chicago) Soft moiré matter 12:30 - 2:00 PM Lunch & Poster Session