Physicists report emergence of ferromagnetism at onset of Kondo breakdown in moiré bilayer lattices

Oct 17, 2024

Moiré superlattices are materials consisting of two layers stacked on top of each other with either a small rotational misalignment or a lattice mismatch between them. The Kondo lattice model, on the other hand, describes systems in which conduction electrons interact with localized magnetic impurities, which changes the systems' electrical and magnetic properties.