The HADES seminar on Tuesday, March 5th, will be at 3:30pm in Room 939.

Speaker: Mengxuan Yang

Abstract: Recent experiments discovered fractional Chern insulator states at zero magnetic field in twisted bilayer $\text{MoTe}_2$ and $\text{WSe}_2$, which are different types of twisted transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). In this talk, using Floquet theory, harmonic oscillators and construction of quasi-modes, I will present some simple mathematical results of band properties of TMDs when the twisting angles are small, including: absence of flat bands, trivial topology of lower bands and exponential flatness of lower bands. This is a joint work with Simon Becker.