{"title":"Moiré Kramers-Weyl Fermions from Structural Chirality with Ideal Radial Spin Texture","authors":"D. J. P. de Sousa, Seungjun Lee, Tony Low","doi":"arxiv-2409.06806","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We demonstrate that two-dimensional Kramers-Weyl fermions can be engineered\nin spin-orbit coupled twisted bilayers, where the chiral structure of these\nmoir\\'e systems breaks all mirror symmetries, confining Kramers-Weyl fermions\nto high-symmetry points in the Brillouin zone under time reversal symmetry. Our\ntheoretical analysis reveals a symmetry-enforced Weyl-like interlayer moir\\'e\ncoupling that universally ensures an ideal radial spin-texture at arbitrary\ntwist angles, under $C_{nz}$ symmetry with n>2. First principles density\nfunctional calculation confirm the realization of these fermions in twisted\n$\\alpha$-In$_2$Se$_3$ bilayers, where flat bands and out-of-plane ferroelectric\npolarization in each layer guarantee two-dimensional Kramers-Weyl physics with\nperfectly ideal radial spin textures.","PeriodicalId":501137,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"arXiv - PHYS - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2409.06806","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We demonstrate that two-dimensional Kramers-Weyl fermions can be engineered
in spin-orbit coupled twisted bilayers, where the chiral structure of these
moir\'e systems breaks all mirror symmetries, confining Kramers-Weyl fermions
to high-symmetry points in the Brillouin zone under time reversal symmetry. Our
theoretical analysis reveals a symmetry-enforced Weyl-like interlayer moir\'e
coupling that universally ensures an ideal radial spin-texture at arbitrary
twist angles, under $C_{nz}$ symmetry with n>2. First principles density
functional calculation confirm the realization of these fermions in twisted
$\alpha$-In$_2$Se$_3$ bilayers, where flat bands and out-of-plane ferroelectric
polarization in each layer guarantee two-dimensional Kramers-Weyl physics with
perfectly ideal radial spin textures.