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We calculate the finite-frequency conductivity of bilayer graphene with a relative twist between the layers. The low frequency response at zero doping shows a flat conductivity with value twice that of the monolayer case and at higher…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-12 Calvin J. Tabert , Elisabeth J. Nicol

Several numerical studies have shown that the electronic properties of twisted bilayers of graphene (TBLG) and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are tunable by strain engineering of the stacking layers. In particular, the flatness of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-24 Marwa Mannaï , Sonia Haddad

We predict the existence of transverse electric (TE) plasmons in bilayer graphene. We find that their plasmonic properties are much more pronounced in bilayer than in monolayer graphene, in a sense that they can get more localized at…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-27 Marinko Jablan , Hrvoje Buljan , Marin Soljačić

We investigate the bandwidth compression due to out of plane pressure of the moire flatbands near charge neutrality in twisted bilayer graphene for a continuous range of small rotation angles of up to $\sim2.5^{\circ}$. The flatband…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Bheema Lingam Chittari , Nicolas Leconte , Srivani Javvaji , Jeil Jung

In this article, we report the electronic band structures of hexagonal bilayer systems, specifically, rotated graphene-graphene and boron nitride-boron nitride bilayers, by introducing an angle between the layers and forming new periodic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-26 W. S. Wu-Mei , R. R. Rey-González

We study the atomic structure of twisted bilayer graphene, with very small mismatch angles ($\theta \sim 0.28^0$), a topic of intense recent interest. We use simulations, in which we combine a recently presented semi-empirical potential for…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-15 Sandeep K. Jain , Vladimir Juricic , Gerard T. Barkema

We compare the classification of the electron bands in graphene, obtained by group theory algebra in the framework of tight-binding model (TBM), with that calculated in the density-functional theory (DFT) framework. Identification in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-01 E. Kogan , V. U. Nazarov , V. M. Silkin , M. Kaveh

Twisted bilayer graphene has been argued theoretically to host exceptionally flat bands when the angle between the two layers falls within a magic range near 1.1$^\circ$. This is now strongly supported by experiment, which furthermore…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-24 Kasra Hejazi , Chunxiao Liu , Leon Balents

Small-twist-angle bilayer graphene supports strongly correlated insulating states and superconductivity. Twisted few-layer graphene systems are likely to open up new directions for strong correlation physics in moir\'e superlattices. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-30 Xiao Li , Fengcheng Wu , Allan H. MacDonald

While regular flat bands are good for enhancing the density of states and hence the gap, they are detrimental to the superfluid weight. We show that the predicted nontrivial topology of the two lowest flat bands of twisted bilayer graphene…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-04-29 Fang Xie , Zhida Song , Biao Lian , B. Andrei Bernevig

Atomically thin van der Waals materials stacked with an interlayer twist have proven to be an excellent platform towards achieving gate-tunable correlated phenomena linked to the formation of flat electronic bands. In this work we…

Stacking geometry in multilayer graphene (MLG) provides an interesting degree of freedom to engineer its electronic structure near the Fermi level, wherein the linear bands in single layer graphene could retain or evolve into parabolic or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Fred Sun , Jia-An Yan

The existence of strong trigonal warping around the K point for the low energy electronic states in multilayer (N$\geq$2) graphene films and graphite is well established. It is responsible for phenomena such as Lifshitz transitions and…

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) features strongly correlated and topological phases due to its flat bands emerging near the magic angle. However, the effects of the non-Hermiticity, arising from the coupling to the environment and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Juan Pablo Esparza , Vladimir Juricic

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) represents a highly tunable, strongly correlated electron system owed to its unique flat electronic bands. However, understanding the single-particle band structure alone has been challenging due to complex…

Twisted graphene multilayers exhibit strongly correlated insulating states and superconductivity due to the presence of ultraflat bands near the charge neutral point. In this paper, the response of ultraflat bands to lattice relaxation and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-08 Zewen Wu , Zhen Zhan , Shengjun Yuan

We study the effect of an in-plane magnetic field on the non-interacting dispersion of twisted bilayer graphene. Our analysis is rooted in the chirally symmetric continuum model, whose zero-field band structure hosts exactly flat bands and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-20 Yves H. Kwan , S. A. Parameswaran , S. L. Sondhi

The unexpected discovery of superconductivity and strong electron correlation in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), a system containing only sp electrons, is considered as one of the most intriguing developments in two-dimensional materials in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Wei-Chen Wang , Feng-Wu Chen , Kuan-Sen Lin , Justin T. Hou , Ho-Chun Lin , Mei-Yin Chou

Using the tight-binding model of graphite, incorporating all Slonczewski-Weiss-McClure parameters, we compute the spectrum of two-dimensional states of electrons bound to a stacking fault in Bernal graphite. We find that those bands retain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 Patrick Johansen Sarsfield , Sergey Slizovskiy , Mikito Koshino , Vladimir Fal'ko

The occurrence of superconducting and insulating phases is well-established in twisted graphene bilayers, and they have also been reported in other arrangements of graphene layers. We investigate three such arrangements: untwisted AB…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-11 Pierre A. Pantaleon , Tommaso Cea , Rory Brown , Niels R. Walet , Francisco Guinea