Determine whether pinned-domain partitions are intrinsic to the moiré superlattice

Determine whether the partition of moiré domains into chaos-inert (pinned) and chaos-active subsets is an intrinsic property of the twisted bilayer CrI3 superlattice or instead specific to the selected reference attractor, using multi-reference analysis.

Background

The damage-spreading simulations identify a fixed subset of domains that remains locked to the reference trajectory across perturbation amplitudes, while other domains switch or reorganize. For the analyzed reference trajectory, 22 of 89 domains are pinned, 24 flip under every perturbation, and 43 switch stochastically.

The authors do not establish whether this partition persists across different relaxed reference configurations. Resolving this issue requires comparing multiple reference trajectories to determine whether pinning is dictated by the moiré geometry and local energy landscape or by the basin of attraction associated with one particular initial state.