Engineering fractional quantum matter in twisted van der Waals materials

Project funded by Research Council of Finland, grant 331342. Participating organisations named by the source: Aalto University. Funded amount: EUR 438,874, as stated by the source. Runs 2020-09-01 to 2025-08-31. Keywords: Physical sciences. Source: OpenAIRE Graph, from the funder's project data (collected by OpenAIRE on 2026-07-23); national funding data, not CORDIS. Abstract given by the source: Recent efforts towards creating a quantum computer can yield game-changing impacts in technology, allowing to tackle key problems for humankind such as energy production or drug development. A route towards a quantum computer relies on exotic electronic excitations known as parafermions, that do not appear in natural materials, and are extremely elusive to find in the laboratory. In this project we aim to develop a theoretical route to create parafermions using graphene as the key building block, a material purely made of carbon that can be isolated in a layer of one atom thickness. Building on top of recent ground breaking experiments, we will explore how taking several graphene layers with a specific angle between them, one can create a hybrid compound in which the properties of electrons can be controlled. By tackling key issues in two dimensional physics such as fractionalization and topological phenomena we will ultimately provide a route to the highly elusive parafermionic mode.

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AI-assisted summary: The project "Engineering fractional quantum matter in twisted van der Waals materials" is funded by the Research Council of Finland with EUR 438,874, running from September 1, 2020, to August 31, 2025, involving Aalto University. Suggested technology pillar: computing. Generated by AI from the public source text; it may contain errors and the original source is authoritative.