Engineering Novel Topological Phases in Moiré Systems

Presentations

• Stripe states in Chern Insulators

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 3:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Anzhuoer Li

    • University of Texas at Austin

  Authors

  • Anzhuoer Li

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Allan MacDonald

    • University of Texas at Austin

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• Higher Chern bands in helically twisted transition metal dichalcogenide homotrilayers

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 3:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 3:54 PM

  Publication: arXiv:2507.17819
  Publication forthcoming in Physical Review B (https://doi.org/10.1103/6jf2-7mst)

  Presenters

  • Jungho Daniel Choi

    • New York University (NYU)

  Authors

  • Jungho Daniel Choi

    • New York University (NYU)

  • Nicolás Morales-Durán

    • Flatiron Institute

  • Yves Kwan

    • University of Texas at Dallas

  • Andrew Millis

    • Columbia University

  • Nicolas Regnault

  • Daniele Guerci

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• Domain wall junctions and networks in Dirac topological moiré materials

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 3:54 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Publication: Bal, G., Cazeaux, P., Massatt, D., & Quinn, S. (2023). Mathematical models of topologically protected transport in twisted bilayer graphene. SIAM Multiscale Modeling & Simulation, 21(3), 1081-1121. https://doi.org/10.1137/22M1505542
  Bal, G., Cazeaux, P., Massatt, D., & Quinn, S. (2025). Macroscopic approximation of tight-binding models near spectral degeneracies and validity for wave packet propagation. In preparation.

  Presenters

  • Paul Cazeaux

    • Virginia Tech

  Authors

  • Paul Cazeaux

    • Virginia Tech

  • Daniel Massatt

    • New Jersey Institute of Technology

  • Guillaume Bal

  • Solomon Quinn

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• M is for Monte Carlo: a sign-free Quantum Monte Carlo study of M-point moiré materials

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Dumitru Calugaru

    • University of Oxford

  Authors

  • Dumitru Calugaru

    • University of Oxford

  • Konstantinos Vasiliou

    • University of Oxford

  • Haoyu Hu

  • Werner Krauth

  • Andrei Bernevig

    • Princeton University

  • Siddharth Parameswaran

    • University of Oxford

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• Quasiperiodic hopping on the honeycomb lattice

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:18 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Keshav Badri

    • Rutgers New Brunswick

  Authors

  • Keshav Badri

    • Rutgers New Brunswick

  • Kevin Lucht

    • Rutgers University

  • Justin Wilson

    • Louisiana State University

  • Jedediah Pixley

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• Atomic and electronic structure of twisted bilayers of SrTiO₃

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Abduhla Ali

    • Harvard University

  Authors

  • Abduhla Ali

    • Harvard University

  • Daniel Larson

    • Harvard University

  • Daniel Bennett

    • Harvard University

  • Efthimios Kaxiras

    • Harvard University

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• Glass patterns: a single moiré spot in twisted amorphous materials and twisted disordered crystals

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Aaron Dunbrack

    • University of Jyvaskyla (JYU)

  Authors

  • Aaron Dunbrack

    • University of Jyvaskyla (JYU)

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• Layerwise Stratification and Band Reordering in Twisted Multilayer MoTe₂

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:54 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Yueyao Fan

    • University of Washington

  Authors

  • Yueyao Fan

    • University of Washington

  • Xiao-Wei Zhang

    • University of Washington

  • Chong Wang

    • University of Washington

  • Xiaoyu Liu

  • Yusen Ye

    • University of Washington

  • Kai-Jie Yang

    • The univeristy of Washington - Seattle

  • Di Xiao

    • University of Washington

  • Ting Cao

    • University of Washington

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• Twist-Induced Quantum Geometry Reconfiguration in Moiré Flat Bands

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:06 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Yi-Chun Hung

    • Northeastern University

  Authors

  • Yi-Chun Hung

    • Northeastern University

  • Xiaoting Zhou

    • Northeastern University

  • Arun Bansil

    • Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

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• Moiré Electron-Phonon Coupling in Twisted Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:18 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Yifan Liu

    • University of California, Riverside

  Authors

  • Yifan Liu

    • University of California, Riverside

  • Vivek Aji

    • University of California, Riverside

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• Nontopological states induced by the moiré superlattce in twisted nodal superconductors

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Kevin Lucht

    • Rutgers University

  Authors

  • Kevin Lucht

    • Rutgers University

  • Pavel Volkov

    • University of Connecticut

  • Jed Pixley

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• Symmetry-enforced Moiré Topology

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:54 PM

  Publication: arXiv:2509.06906
  

  Presenters

  • yunzhe liu

    • Pennsylvania State University

  Authors

  • yunzhe liu

    • Pennsylvania State University

  • Chaoxing Liu

    • Pennsylvania State University

  • Kai-Jie Yang

    • The univeristy of Washington - Seattle

  • Jiabin Yu

    • University of Florida

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