Moiré Materials Workshop

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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.

  • 8:00 - 9:00 AMBreakfast & Check In
    9:00 - 9:40 AMPhilip Kim (Harvard University)Superconducting in Two Dimensional van der Waals Quasicrystals, Ta1.6Te
    9:40 - 10:20 AMXiaodong Xu (University of Washington)Observation of fractional charges via anyon-trions
    10:20 - 10:30 AMBreak
    10:30 - 11:10 AMSenthil Todadri (MIT)Doping fractional quantum anomalous Hall insulators to zero field quantum Hall experiments
    11:10 - 11:50 AMDmitri Efetov (LMU München)Cumulative Phase Diagram of Twisted Bilayer Graphene from Multi-Device Analysis
    11:50 AM - 12:30 PMEmanuel Tutuc (University of Texas at Austin)Beyond the Single Moiré: Independently Tunable Flat Bands in a Double Moiré System
    12:30 - 2:00 PMLunch & Poster Session
    2:00 - 2:40 PMMaciej Zworski (Berkeley)Mathematics of periodic band inversion
    2:40 - 3:20 PMEslam Khalef (Harvard University)Dynamics of dispersing anyons in moiré flat bands: emergent phases and microscopic origin
    3:20 - 3:30 PMBreak
    3:30 - 4:10 PMTomohiro Soejima (CCQ, NYU)Topological crystals in two-dimensional materials
    4:10 - 4:50 PMZoe Zhu (Boston College)Relaxation-driven flat bands and topology in moiré transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers
    4:50 - 5:30 PMJed Pixley (Rutgers University)A “critical” take on the magic-angle in twisted bilayer graphene
    5:30 - 7:00 PMReception & Poster Session
  • 8:00 - 9:00 AMBreakfast
    9:00 - 9:45 AMShiwei Zhang (CCQ)Many-body computation of interacting electrons in 2D: connecting theory, experiment, and mathematics
    9:40 - 10:20 AMEric Cances (Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech)Mathematical and numerical analysis of DFT models: from molecules to moiré materials
    10:20 - 10:30 AMBreak
    10:30 - 11:10 AMEfthimios Kaxiras (Harvard University)Electronic states in twisted bilayer graphene from first principles and implications for correlated-electron behavior
    11:10 - 11:50 AMLin Lin (Berkeley)Ab initio quantum embedding description of interacting magic angle twisted bilayer graphene
    11:50 AM - 12:30 PMPäivi Törmä (Aalto University)Quantum Geometric aspects of superconductivity in layered 2D flat-band materials
    12:30 - 2:00 PMLunch & Poster Session
    2:40 - 3:20 PMVieri Mastropietro (Universita' di Roma La Sapienza)Incommensurate twisted bilayer graphene: Emerging quasiperiodicity and stability
    3:20 - 3:30 PMBreak
    3:30 - 4:10 PMAlex Watson (University of Minnesota)Moiré materials in the continuum limit
    4:10 - 4:50 PMHui Deng (University of Michigan)
    4:50 - 5:30 PMLeo 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 AMBreakfast
    9:00 - 9:40 AMZhi-Da Song (Peking University)Pairing and Topology in Flat Bands
    9:40 - 10:20 AMVladimir Fal'ko (University of Manchester)Moire structures in van der Waals ferroelectrics
    10:20 - 10:30 AMBreak
    10:30 - 11:10 AMTobias Wolf (University of Texas at Austin)Rhombohedral graphene multilayers as a non-moiré platform for moiré correlated physics
    11:10 - 11:50 AMRebeca Ribeiro (University of Paris-Saclay)Twist-Angle-Controlled Anomalous Gating in Bilayer Graphene/BN Heterostructures
    11:50 AM - 12:30 PMIvar Martin (University of Chicago)Soft moiré matter
    12:30 - 2:00 PMLunch & Poster Session
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