Absence of small magic angles for disordered tunneling potentials in twisted bilayer graphene
Mathematical Physics
2024-02-21 v1 math.MP
Spectral Theory
Abstract
We consider small random perturbations of the standard high-symmetry tunneling potentials in the Bistritzer-MacDonald Hamiltonian describing twisted bilayer graphene. Using methods developed by Sj\"ostrand for studying the spectral asymptotics of non-selfadjoint pseudo-differential operators, we prove that for sufficiently small twisting angles the Hamiltonian will not exhibit a flat band with overwhelming probability, and hence the absence of the so-called \textit{magic angels}. Moreover, we prove a probabilistic Weyl law for the eigenvalues of the non-selfadjoint tunneling operator, subject to small random perturbations, of the Bistritzer-MacDonald Hamiltonian in the chiral limit.
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@article{arxiv.2402.12799,
title = {Absence of small magic angles for disordered tunneling potentials in twisted bilayer graphene},
author = {Simon Becker and Izak Oltman and Martin Vogel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.12799},
year = {2024}
}
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32 pages, 1 figure