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Predicting moiré magnetism with first-principles AI

Max Geier and Liang Fu

Phys. Rev. B - Accepted 21 September, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/77s8-8s61

Abstract

Computational discovery of magnetic materials remains challenging because magnetism arises from the competition between kinetic energy and Coulomb interaction that is often beyond the reach of standard electronic-structure methods. Here we tackle this challenge by directly solving the many-electron Schr"odinger equation with neural-network variational Monte Carlo, which provides a highly expressive variational wavefunction for strongly correlated systems. Applying this technique to transition metal dichalcogenide moir'e semicondutors, we predict itinerant ferromagnetism in WSe2/WS2 and an antiferromagnetic insulator in twisted Γ-valley homobilayer, using the same neural network without any physics input beyond the microscopic Hamiltonian. Crucially, both types of magnetic states are obtained from a single calculation within the Sz=0 sector, removing the need to compute and compare multiple Sz sectors. This significantly reduces computational cost and paves the way for faster and more reliable magnetic material design.

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