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Doubled Moir\'{e} Flat Bands in Double-twisted Few Layer Graphite

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2023-02-02 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We study the electronic structure of a double-twisted few layer graphite (DTFLG), which consists of three few layer graphite (FLG), i.e. ABA-stacked graphene multilayer, stacked with two twist angles. We consider two categories of DTFLG, alternately twisted case and chirally twisted one, according to the rotation direction of the two twist angles. We show that, once the middle FLG of DTFLG is not thinner than trilayer, both kinds of DTFLG can remarkably host two pairs of degenerate moir\'{e} flat bands (MFBs) at EfE_f, twice that of the magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG). The doubled MFBs of DTFLG lead to doubled DOS at EfE_f, which implies much stronger correlation effects than the TBG. The degeneracy of MFBs can be lifted by a perpendicular electric field, and the isolated MFBs have nonzero valley Chern number. We also reveal the peculiar wave function patterns of the MFBs in the DTFLG. Our results establish a new family of moir\'{e} systems that have the much larger DOS at EfE_f, and thus possible much stronger correlation effects.

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@article{arxiv.2104.06860,
  title  = {Doubled Moir\'{e} Flat Bands in Double-twisted Few Layer Graphite},
  author = {Zhen Ma and Shuai Li and Ming Lu and Dong-Hui Xu and Jin-Hua Gao and X. C. Xie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.06860},
  year   = {2023}
}

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6 pages, 4 figures

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