1. Artificial intelligence for artificial materials: moir\'e atom
- Author
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Luo, Di, Reddy, Aidan P., Devakul, Trithep, and Fu, Liang
- Subjects
Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons ,Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics ,Computer Science - Machine Learning ,Physics - Computational Physics ,Quantum Physics - Abstract
Moir\'e engineering in atomically thin van der Waals heterostructures creates artificial quantum materials with designer properties. We solve the many-body problem of interacting electrons confined to a moir\'e superlattice potential minimum (the moir\'e atom) using a 2D fermionic neural network. We show that strong Coulomb interactions in combination with the anisotropic moir\'e potential lead to striking ``Wigner molecule" charge density distributions observable with scanning tunneling microscopy.
- Published
- 2023