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Title:Oral: Low-Energy Electromagnetic Response in Moiré Materials

ORAL

Abstract













We investigate the low-energy electromagnetic response in moiré materials, focusing on the partial sum rule associated with the inverse frequency-weighted optical conductivity at low energies. We present results for this sum rule in a non-perturbative yet “solvable” limit across various correlation-induced insulators. Our findings reveal that for a certain class of insulators, the partial sum rule is governed by a “many-body projected quantum geometry” derived from the interaction-renormalized electronic bands. We also extend these results to include contributions from coupling to high-energy degrees of freedom using a renormalization group inspired method.












Publication: Is the low-energy optical absorption in correlated insulators controlled by<br>quantum geometry? <br>https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.16352

Presenters

  • Juan Felipe Mendez-Valderrama

    Princeton University

Authors

  • Juan Felipe Mendez-Valderrama

    Princeton University

  • Dan Mao

    Cornell University, University of Zurich

  • Debanjan Chowdhury

    Cornell University