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D J P de Sousa1, Seungjun Lee1, Tony Low1,2
1University of Minnesota, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
Abstract:
We demonstrate that two-dimensional Kramers-Weyl fermions can be engineered in spin-orbit coupled twisted bilayers, where the chiral structure of these moiré 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 spinful interlayer moiré 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 α-In_{2}Se_{3} homobilayers, where flat bands and out-of-plane ferroelectric polarization in each layer guarantee two-dimensional Kramers-Weyl physics with ideal radial spin textures.
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