ERC Starting Grant · 2023
Orbital Chern Insulators in van der Waals Moiré Systems
Topological electronic phases manifest fascinating phenomena, including electronic transport via topologically-protected edge states, anomalous responses to external fields, and excitations with anyonic statistics. Harnessing these phenomena in electronic devices will lead to a technological breakthrough. The main obstacle to this has been the lack of topological systems that are simultaneously clean, versatile, robust, and highly tunable. We argue that the recent discovery of orbital Chern insulators (OCI) in graphene moiré heterostructures opens an exceptional opportunity to make a leap in our ability to manipulate topological electronic phases. Recently, moiré superlattices in van der…
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