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We study the energy spectrum and quantum Hall effects of the twisted double bilayer graphene in uniform magnetic field. We investigate two different arrangements, AB-AB and AB-BA, which differ in the relative orientation but have very…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 J. A. Crosse , Naoto Nakatsuji , Mikito Koshino , Pilkyung Moon

We consider a tight-binding model recently introduced by Timmel and Mele for strained moir\'e heterostructures. We consider two honeycomb lattices to which layer antisymmetric shear strain is applied to periodically modulate the tunneling…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-02-19 Simon Becker , Lingrui Ge , Jens Wittsten

Twisted graphene bilayers show a complex electronic structure, further modified by interaction effects. The main features can be obtained from effective models, which make use a few phenomenological parameters. We analyze the influence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-04 Niels R. Walet , Francisco Guinea

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) subject to a sequence of commensurate external periodic potentials reveals the formation of moir\'{e} fractals (MF) that share striking similarities with the central place theory (CPT) of economic geography,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Deepanshu Aggarwal , Rohit Narula , Sankalpa Ghosh

Intricate interplay between the periodicity of the lattice structure and that of the cyclotron motion gives rise to a well-known self-similar fractal structure of the energy eigenvalue, known as the Hofstadter butterfly, for an electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-08 Jun-Won Rhim , Kwon Park

We propose Landau levels as a probe for the topological character of electronic bands in two-dimensional moir\'e superlattices. We consider two configurations of twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG) that have very similar band structures,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 QuanSheng Wu , Jianpeng Liu , Oleg V. Yazyev

We introduce the magnonic Floquet Hofstadter butterfly in the two-dimensional insulating honeycomb ferromagnet. We show that when the insulating honeycomb ferromagnet is irradiated by an oscillating space- and time-dependent electric field,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-29 S. A. Owerre

An exact mapping of the tight-binding Hamiltonian for a graphene's nanoribbon under any armchair uniaxial strain into an effective one-dimensional system is presented. As an application, for a periodic modulation we have found a gap opening…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-27 Pedro Roman-Taboada , Gerardo G. Naumis

We perform an analytical study of the energy and entanglement spectrum of non-interacting fermionic bilayer honeycomb lattices in the presence of trigonal warping in the energy spectrum, on-site energy difference and uniform magnetic field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Z. Moradi , J. Abouie

Moir\'e superlattices with long-range periodicity exhibit Hofstadter energy spectra under accessible magnetic fields, enabling the exploration of emergent quantum phenomena through a hierarchy of fractal states. However, higher-order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Wenqing Song , Yicheng Mou , Qing Lan , Guorui Zhao , Zejing Guo , Jiaqi Liu , Tuoyu Zhao , Cheng Zhang , Wu Shi

Moir\'e materials host a wealth of intertwined correlated and topological states of matter, all arising from flat electronic bands with nontrivial quantum geometry. A prominent example is the family of alternating-twist magic-angle graphene…

We theoretically investigate the electronic structures of moir\'{e} superlattices arising in monolayer / bilayer graphene stacked on hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) in presence and absence of magnetic field. We develop an effective continuum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-10 Pilkyung Moon , Mikito Koshino

We report on our studies of fractal butterflies in biased bilayer graphene in the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) regime. We have considered the case when the external periodic potential is present in one layer and have illustrated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Areg Ghazaryan , Tapash Chakraborty

The magnetic field generated Hofstadter butterfly in single-twist trilayer graphene (TLG) is investigated using circularly polarized light (CPL) and longitudinal light emanating from a waveguide. We show that single-twist TLG has two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Nadia Benlakhouy , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli

We report intriguing and hitherto overlooked low-field room temperature extremely large magnetoresistance (XMR) patterns in graphene/hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) superlattices that emerge due to the existence of open orbits within each…

Monolayer graphene placed with a twist on top of AB-stacked bilayer graphene hosts topological flat bands in a wide range of twist angles. The dispersion of these bands and gaps between them can be efficiently controlled by a perpendicular…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-05 Louk Rademaker , Ivan Protopopov , Dmitry Abanin

Exploration of the impact of synthetic material landscapes featuring tunable geometrical properties on physical processes is a research direction that is currently of great interest because of the outstanding phenomena that are continually…

Recent advances in realizing artificial gauge fields on optical lattices promise experimental detection of topologically non-trivial energy spectra. Self-similar fractal energy structures generally known as Hofstadter butterflies depend…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-25 F. Yılmaz , F. Nur Ünal , M. Ö. Oktel

Gauge potentials with different configurations have been recently realized in the optical lattice experiments. It is remarkable that one of the simplest gauge can generate particle energy spectrum with the self-similar structure known as a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-05-01 A. S. Sajna , T. P. Polak

We report on the theoretical electronic spectra of twisted phosphorene bilayers exhibiting moir\'e patterns, as computed by means of a continuous approximation to the moir\'e superlattice Hamiltonian. Our model is constructed by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-23 Isaac Soltero , Jonathan Guerrero-Sánchez , Francisco Mireles , David A. Ruiz-Tijerina