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1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
Abstract:
We study a Dirac-Harper model for moiré bilayer superlattices where layer antisymmetric strain periodically modulates the interlayer coupling between two honeycomb lattices in one spatial dimension. Discrete and continuum formulations of this model are analyzed. For a sufficiently long moiré period we find low-energy spectra that host a manifold of weakly dispersive bands arising from a hierarchy of momentum and position-dependent mass inversions. We analyze their charge distributions, mode count, and valley coherence using exact symmetries of the lattice model and approximate symmetries of a four-flavor version of the Jackiw-Rebbi one-dimensional solution.
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