Flat Bands and High Chern Numbers in Twisted Multilayer Graphene
Mathematical Physics
2023-11-16 v1 Materials Science
Strongly Correlated Electrons
math.MP
Spectral Theory
Quantum Physics
Abstract
Motivated by recent Physical Review Letters of Wang-Liu and Ledwith-Vishwanath-Khalaf, we study Tarnopolsky-Kruchkov-Vishwanath chiral model of two sheets of -layer Bernal stacked graphene twisted by a small angle using the framework developed by Becker-Embree-Wittsten-Zworski. We show that magic angles of this model are exactly the same as magic angles of chiral twisted bilayer graphene with multiplicity. For small inter-layer tunneling potentials, we compute the band separation at Dirac points as we turning on the tunneling parameter. Flat band eigenfunctions are also constructed using a new theta function argument and this yields a complex line bundle with the Chern number .
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@article{arxiv.2303.00103,
title = {Flat Bands and High Chern Numbers in Twisted Multilayer Graphene},
author = {Mengxuan Yang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.00103},
year = {2023}
}
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25 pages, 4 figures, comments are welcome