Correlated states in super-moir\'e materials with a kernel polynomial quantics tensor cross interpolation algorithm

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel computational method combining kernel polynomial and tensor cross interpolation algorithms to efficiently study correlated states in super-moiré materials with millions of atoms, surpassing traditional methods.

Contribution

The paper presents a new scalable approach for analyzing correlated matter in super-moiré systems using tensor networks and polynomial algorithms, enabling simulations at unprecedented length scales.

Findings

Successfully modeled super-moiré systems with millions of atoms.

Captured correlated states and domain walls in moiré-of-moiré systems.

Demonstrated the method's ability to handle ultra-long length scale phenomena.

Abstract

Super-moir\'e materials represent a novel playground to engineer states of matter beyond the possibilities of conventional moir\'e materials. However, from the computational point of view, understanding correlated matter in these systems requires solving models with several millions of atoms, a formidable task for state-of-the-art methods. Conventional wavefunction methods for correlated matter scale with a cubic power with the number of sites, a major challenge for super-moir\'e materials. Here, we introduce a methodology capable of solving correlated states in super-moir\'e materials by combining a kernel polynomial method with a quantics tensor cross interpolation matrix product state algorithm. This strategy leverages a mapping of the super-moir\'e structure to a many-body Hilbert space, that is efficiently sampled with tensor cross interpolation with matrix product states, where individual evaluations are performed with a Chebyshev kernel polynomial algorithm. We demonstrate this approach with interacting super-moir\'e systems with up to several millions of atoms, showing its ability to capture correlated states in moir\'e-of-moir\'e systems and domain walls between different moir\'e systems. Our manuscript puts forward a widely applicable methodology to study correlated matter in ultra-long length scales, enabling rationalizing correlated super-moir\'e phenomena.