Hofstadter butterflies and metal/insulator transitions for moir\'e heterostructures

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2206.11891v3
• Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 12:11:53 GMT
• Title: Hofstadter butterflies and metal/insulator transitions for moir\'e heterostructures
• Authors: Simon Becker, Lingrui Ge, Jens Wittsten
• Abstract summary: We study a tight-binding model for strained moir'e heterostructures. We consider two honeycomb lattices to which layer antisymmetric shear strain is applied. This reduces the model to one spatial dimension and makes it amenable to the theory of matrix-valued quasi-periodic operators.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We consider a tight-binding model recently introduced by Timmel and Mele for strained moir\'e heterostructures. We consider two honeycomb lattices to which layer antisymmetric shear strain is applied to periodically modulate the tunneling between the lattices in one distinguished direction. This effectively reduces the model to one spatial dimension and makes it amenable to the theory of matrix-valued quasi-periodic operators. We then study the charge transport and spectral properties of this system, explaining the appearance of a Hofstadter-type butterfly and the occurrence of metal/insulator transitions that have recently been experimentally verified for non-interacting moir\'e systems. For sufficiently incommensurable moir\'e lengths, described by a diophantine condition, as well as strong coupling between the lattices, which can be tuned by applying physical pressure, this leads to the occurrence of localization phenomena.

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