21–26 Jun 2026
U. Ottawa - Learning Crossroads (CRX) Building
America/Toronto timezone
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Reconfigurable moiré interfaces: A scanning van der Waals microscope for in-situ twist control and quantum transport

Not scheduled
15m
U. Ottawa - Learning Crossroads (CRX) Building

U. Ottawa - Learning Crossroads (CRX) Building

100 Louis-Pasteur Private, Ottawa, ON K1N 9N3
Invited Speaker / Conférencier(ère) invité(e) Advancing Quantum Simulation based on 2 Dimensional Materials Through Canadian Collaboration / Faire progresser la simulation quantique basée sur les matériaux bidimensionnels grâce à une collaboration canadienne (DCMMP) W1-3 | (DPMCM)

Speaker

Sergio de la Barrera

Description

Moiré materials are defined by a delicate interplay of symmetry and nanoscale registry, yet the most important structural tuning parameters are often frozen once a heterostructure is assembled. I will present a "scanning van der Waals microscope" that creates a pristine nanoscale 2D-2D junction on a probe and rotates the interface in situ, enabling continuous twist control while measuring electrical transport across the junction. The method is aimed at two longstanding bottlenecks: reconfigurable control of moiré interfaces and momentum-selective tunnelling spectroscopy of electronic structure with moiré-relevant resolution. I will summarize initial results from graphene-based junctions and discuss near-term directions toward tunable moiré heterostructures for quantum simulation.

Keyword-1 Moiré materials
Keyword-2 Quantum simulators

Author

Sergio de la Barrera

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