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Lattice Relaxation in Moiré Heterobilayers

Christophe De Beule, Yiyang Lai, Liangtao Peng, Daniel Bennett, Shaffique Adam

[arXiv:2605.17805]
Hybrid Electronic-Ionic Ferroelectricity in Superlubric van der Waals Heterostructures

Jing Huang, Jun Kang, Daniel Bennett

[arXiv:2606.17502]

2026

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Switching topological states via uniaxial strain in 2D materials

Joshua J Sanchez, Raagya Arora, Daniel Bennett, Daniel T Larson, Efthimios Kaxiras, Riccardo Comin

International Journal of Topology 3, 14 (2026)[arXiv:2509.03854]
High-Order Moiré Bands and Correlated States in Twisted Double-Bilayer Graphene at Small Twist Angles

Yuyu Yao, Daniel Bennett, Ruihan Wang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Peng Song

ACS Nano 20, 3574-3581 (2026)
Disorder-Induced Symmetry Breaking in Moiré Bands of Marginally Twisted Bilayer MoS₂

Pablo Reséndiz-Vázquez, Christophe De Beule, Thi-Hai-Yen Vu, Kaijian Xing, Daniel McEwen, Daniel Bennett, Liangtao Peng, Hector Gonzalez-Herrero, Shaffique Adam, Mark T Edmonds, Michael S Fuhrer

ACS Nano 20, 17350-17359 (2026)[arXiv:2602.06318]
Topological Polar Textures in van der Waals Moiré Superlattices

Joshua Edwards, Daniel Bennett, Michael S Fuhrer, Mark T Edmonds, Pankaj Sharma

Small Structures 2, e202500776 (2026)
Twisted bilayer graphene from first principles: Structural and electronic properties

Albert Zhu, Daniel Bennett, Daniel T Larson, Mohammed M Al Ezzi, Efstratios Manousakis, Efthimios Kaxiras

Physical Review B 113, 205125 (2026)[arXiv:2601.16851]
Wavefunction textures in twisted bilayer graphene from first principles

Albert Zhu, Daniel Bennett, Daniel T. Larson, Mohammed M. Al Ezzi, Efstratios Manousakis and Efthimios Kaxiras

Physical Review B 113, L041112 (2026)[arXiv:2507.03675]
Universal Symmetries in Twisted Moiré Materials

Mohammed M. Al Ezzi, Albert Zhu, Daniel Bennett, Daniel T. Larson and Efthimios Kaxiras

Physical Review B, 114, 125116 (2026)[arXiv:2505.19485]

2025

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Stacking-dependent electronic structure of ultrathin perovskite bilayers

Daniel T. Larson, Daniel Bennett, Abduhla Ali, Anderson S. Chaves, Raagya Arora, Karin M. Rabe and Efthimios Kaxiras

Physical Review B 111, 125131 (2025)[arXiv:2411.16497]
Accurate and efficient localized basis sets for two-dimensional materials

Daniel Bennett, Michele Pizzochero, Javier Junquera and Efthimios Kaxiras

Physical Review B 111, 125123 (2025)Editor's Suggestion[arXiv:2411.12566]
Shift photocurrent vortices from topological polarization textures

Aneesh Agarwal, Wojciech J. Jankowski, Daniel Bennett and Robert-Jan Slager

npj 2D Materials & Applications 9, 43 (2025)[arXiv:2408.04017]
Plasmonic polarization sensing of electrostatic superlattice potentials

Shuai Zhang, Jordan Fonseca, Daniel Bennett, Zhiyuan Sun, Junhe Zhang, Ran Jing, Suheng Xu, Leo He, S.L. Moore, S.E. Rossi, Dmitry Ovchinnikov, David Cobden, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, M.M. Fogler, Philip Kim, Efthimios Kaxiras, Xiaodong Xu and D.N. Basov

Physical Review X 15, 011019 (2025)[arXiv:2406.18028]

2024

3
Flat and tunable moiré phonons in twisted transition-metal dichalcogenides

Alejandro Ramos-Alonso, Benjamin Remez, Daniel Bennett, Rafael M. Fernandes and Hector Ochoa

Physical Review Letters 134, 026501 (2024)Editor's Suggestion[arXiv:2406.18779]
Ultrafast high-endurance memory based on sliding ferroelectrics

Kenji Yasuda, Evan Zalys-Geller, Xirui Wang, Daniel Bennett, Suraj S Cheema, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Efthimios Kaxiras, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero and Raymond Ashoori

Science 385, 53-56 (2024)
Stacking-engineered ferroelectricity and multiferroic order in van der Waals magnets

Daniel Bennett, Gabriel Martínez-Carracedo, Xu He, Jaime Ferrer, Philippe Ghosez, Riccardo Comin and Efthimios Kaxiras

Physical Review Letters 133, 246703 (2024)Editor's Suggestion[arXiv:2405.20069]

2023

2
Polar meron-antimeron networks in strained and twisted bilayers

Daniel Bennett, Gaurav Chaudhary, Robert-Jan Slager, Eric Bousquet and Philippe Ghosez

Nature Communications 14, 1629 (2023)Editor's Highlights[arXiv:2210.10786]
Theory of polarization textures in crystal supercells

Daniel Bennett, Wojciech J. Jankowski, Gaurav Chaudhary, Efthimios Kaxiras and Robert-Jan Slager

Physical Review Research 5, 033216 (2023)[arXiv:2305.01404]

2022

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Theory of polar domains in moiré heterostructures

Daniel Bennett

Physical Review B 105, 235445 (2022)[arXiv:2203.01979]
On electrically tunable stacking domains and ferroelectricity in moiré superlattices

Daniel Bennett, Benjamin Remez

npj 2D Materials and Applications 6, 7 (2022)[arXiv:2108.10838]
Tunable photostriction of halide perovskites through energy dependent photoexcitation

Bo Peng, Daniel Bennett, Ivona Bravić and Bartomeu Monserrat

Physical Review Materials 6, L082401 (2022)Letter · Editor's Suggestion[arXiv:2206.00061]

2021

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Flexoelectric-like radial polarization of single-walled nanotubes from first-principles

Daniel Bennett

Electronic Structure 3, 015001 (2021)[arXiv:2005.02257]