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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 nn-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 n-n.

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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