Condensed Matter Physics in the Alps: Geometric Frustration, Topology, Flat Bands, and Correlation in Kagome and Van der Waals Systems

Optical pumping of topological states in twisted MoTe2

7 Jan 2026, 10:15

35m

Saas Fee

Invited talk (by invitation only) van der Waals experimental Wednesday Morning Session II, Chair S. Zhou

Speaker

Atac Imamouglu (ETH)

Description

I will describe recent experiments where we used optical pumping techniques to manipulate the Chern number of integer and fractional Chern insulators in twisted MoTe2 homobilayer.