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Twisted Kagome Bilayers: Higher-Order Magic Angles, Topological Flat Bands, and Sublattice Interference

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2026-05-08 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We develop a low-energy continuum model to describe the moir\'{e} physics of heterostructures, which is a generalization of the celebrated Bistritzer-MacDonald (BM) method [R. Bistritzer and A. H. MacDonald, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 108, 12233 (2011)]. We take as an example the moir\'{e} physics of electrons in twisted bilayer kagom\'{e} (TBK) metals near 1/31/3 filling where monolayer Dirac cones lie. We demonstrate the emergence of higher-order magic angles where significant local band flattening occurs as a high-order Van Hove singularity emerges and show how twisting alone can induce non-trivial topology. We, furthermore, show that while sublattice interference effects are present, their role is not as prominent as in monolayer kagome.

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@article{arxiv.2605.06551,
  title  = {Twisted Kagome Bilayers: Higher-Order Magic Angles, Topological Flat Bands, and Sublattice Interference},
  author = {David T. S. Perkins and Joseph J. Betouras},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.06551},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

Main text: 7 pages, 3 figures. Supplemental Material: 12 pages, 7 figures

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