Designing Artificial Quantum Materials in Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Moire Heterostructures

Van der Waals heterostructures of atomically thin crystals offer an exciting new platform to design artificial quantum materials with novel and tunable quantum phases. In this talk, I will describe different emerging correlated phases in transitional metal dichacogenide moire heterostructures, including correlated charge-transfer insulators, in-plane charge transfer excitons upon optical excitation, and Wigner molecular crystals.