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Twisted double bilayer graphene (tDBG) has emerged as an especially rich platform for studying strongly correlated and topological states of matter. The material features moir\'e bands that can be continuously deformed by both perpendicular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Minhao He , Jiaqi Cai , Ya-Hui Zhang , Yang Liu , Yuhao Li , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , David H. Cobden , Matthew Yankowitz , Xiaodong Xu

We present a theoretical investigation of the emergence of chiral topological superconductivity in small-angle twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) and twisted double bilayer graphene (tDBLG). Using the low-energy continuum model and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Kamalesh Bera , Tanay Nag , Arijit Saha

Twisted van der Waals heterostructures with flat electronic bands have recently emerged as a platform for realizing correlated and topological states with an extraordinary degree of control and tunability. In graphene-based moir\'e…

We demonstrate that a single layer of graphene subject to a superlattice potential nearly commensurate to a $\sqrt{3} \times \sqrt{3}$ supercell exactly maps to the chiral model of twisted bilayer graphene, albeit with half as many degrees…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-18 Valentin Crépel , Aaron Dunbrack , Daniele Guerci , John Bonini , Jennifer Cano

We investigate correlated insulating states in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) by the exact diagonalization method applied to the extended Hubbard model with interaction parameters recently evaluated in the realistic effective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-08 Masayuki Ochi , Mikito Koshino , Kazuhiko Kuroki

Bilayer graphene contains, compared to graphene monolayer, an additional graphene sheet and, therefore, extra degrees of freedom, making it a unique system for complex electronic states to emerge. Here, we show that there are two types of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-16 Long-Jing , Si-Yu Li , Jia-Bin Qiao , Wei-Jie Zuo , Lin He

We consider the zero-filled quantum-Hall ferromagnetic state of bilayer graphene subject to a kink-like perpendicular electric field, which generates domain walls in the electronic state and low-energy collective modes confined to move…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-17 Victoria Mazo , Chia-Wei Huang , Efrat Shimshoni , Sam T. Carr , H. A. Fertig

We report the existence of zero energy surface states localized at zigzag edges of bilayer graphene. Working within the tight-binding approximation we derive the analytic solution for the wavefunctions of these peculiar surface states. It…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-16 Eduardo V. Castro , N. M. R. Peres , J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos , A. H. Castro Neto , F. Guinea

Experiments in gated bilayer graphene with stacking domain walls present topological gapless states protected by no-valley mixing. Here we research these states under gate voltages using atomistic models, which allow us to elucidate their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 W. Jaskólski , M. Pelc , Garnett W. Bryant , Leonor Chico , A. Ayuela

Electronically gated bilayer graphene behaves as a tunable gap semiconductor under a uniform interlayer bias $V_{g}$. Imposing a spatially varying bias, which changes polarity from $-V_g$ to $+V_g$, leads to one dimensional (1D) chiral…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-18 Matthew Killi , Tzu-Chieh Wei , Ian Affleck , Arun Paramekanti

Trapping electrons in quantum dots and controlling their collective quantum states is crucial for converting semiconductor structures into bits of quantum information processing. Here, we study single- and two-particle states in quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Angelika Knothe , Vladimir Fal'ko

We demonstrate that single layer graphene exhibits the electronic structure of a bilayer when it is connected to two gated bilayers. The energy gap characteristic for gated bilayer is induced in the single layer and it persists for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 Wlodzimierz Jaskolski

Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures consisting of bilayer graphene (BLG) encapsulated within monolayers of strong spin-orbit semiconductor WS$_2$ or ferromagnetic semiconductor Cr$_2$Ge$_2$Te$_6$ (CGT), are investigated. By performing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Klaus Zollner , Jaroslav Fabian

Rotated graphene multilayers form a new class of graphene related systems with electronic properties that drastically depend on the rotation angles. It has been shown that bilayers behave like two isolated graphene planes for large rotation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-11 G. Trambly de Laissardière , D. Mayou , L. Magaud

In minimally twisted bilayer graphene, a moir{\'e} pattern consisting of AB and BA stacking regions separated by domain walls forms. These domain walls are predicted to support counterpropogating topologically protected helical (TPH) edge…

Valley pseudospin, the quantum degree of freedom characterizing the degenerate valleys in energy bands, is a distinct feature of two-dimensional Dirac materials. Similar to spin, the valley pseudospin is spanned by a time reversal pair of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Mengqiao Sui , Guorui Chen , Liguo Ma , Wenyu Shan , Dai Tian , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Xiaofeng Jin , Wang Yao , Di Xiao , Yuanbo Zhang

Bernal bilayer graphene has recently been discovered to exhibit a wide range of unique ordered phases resulting from interaction-driven effects and encompassing spin and valley magnetism, correlated insulators, correlated metals, and…

The experimentally observed correlated insulating states and quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) have drawn significant attention. However, up to date, the specific mechanisms of these intriguing phenomena…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-27 Jianpeng Liu , Xi Dai

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) is known for exhibiting highly correlated phases at magic angles due to the emergence of flat bands that enhance electron-electron interactions. In the TBG chiral model, electronic wave function properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-15 Leonardo A. Navarro-Labastida , Gerardo G. Naumis

Twistronics, harnessing interlayer rotation to tailor electronic states in van der Waals materials, has predominantly focused on small-angle regime. Here, we unveil the pivotal role of intervalley Umklapp scattering in large-angle twisted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Juncheng Li , Cong Chen , Wang Yao