Moir\'e Strain Skyrmions in Sliding Twisted Bilayers
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Strain defect is crucial to the physical properties of solid materials. Among them, strain glass induced by defect engineering provides an important paradigm for nanoscale domain manipulation. Here, we propose purely mechanical moir\'e strain Skyrmions, a topologically protected elastic textures whose motion can be controlled by interlayer sliding and the chirality of the moir\'e bilayer. Using an empirical continuum elastic model combined with symmetry analysis, we demonstrate the Skyrmion lattice structure as the elastic ground state. Under interlayer sliding, these moir\'e strain Skyrmions exhibit the Skyrmion Hall effect of transverse motion, with a Hall angle determined by bilayer chirality and inversely proportional to the moir\'e twist angle. Our work establishes interlayer sliding as an efficient, low-energy control knob for topological excitations, offering a new paradigm for designing chiral-material-based information transport devices.
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