Yiran Zhang

1 month ago | nature.com | Yiran Zhang |Gal Shavit |Huiyang Ma |Kenji Watanabe |Takashi Taniguchi |David Hsieh | +3 more

AbstractThe relative twist angle between layers of near-lattice-matched van der Waals materials is critical for the emergent phenomena associated with moiré flat bands1,2,3. However, the concept of angle rotation control is not exclusive to moiré superlattices in which electrons directly experience a twist-angle-dependent periodic potential. Instead, it can also be used to induce programmable symmetry-breaking perturbations with the goal of stabilizing desired correlated states.

Mar 19, 2025 | nature.com | Lingyuan Kong |Michał Papaj |Hyunjin Kim |Yiran Zhang |Eli Baum |Hui Li | +2 more

AbstractSuperconducting (SC) states that break space-group symmetries of the underlying crystal can exhibit nontrivial spatial modulation of the order parameter. Previously, such states were intimately associated with the breaking of translational symmetry1,2, resulting in the density-wave orders3,4,5,6,7,8, with wavelengths spanning several unit cells9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19.