Kavli Affiliate: Leon Balents | First 5 Authors: Zhenhao Song, Urban F. P. Seifert, Zhu-Xi Luo, Leon Balents, | Summary: In this work, we study a slave-rotor mean-field theory of an extended Hubbard model, applicable to transition metal dichalcogenide moir’e systems, that captures both the formation of Wigner crystals as well as exotic spin states […]
Continue.. Mott insulators in moiré transition metal dichalcogenides at fractional fillings: Slave-rotor mean-field theory