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We establish exponential decay, as the angle of twisting goes to $ 0$, of eigenstates in a model of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), near the hexagon connecting stacking points. That is done by adapting microlocal methods Kawai-Kashiwara and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 Michael Hitrik , Zhongkai Tao , Maciej Zworski

Recent exploration of the commensurate structure in the turbostratic double layer graphene shows that the large angle twisting can be treated by the decrease of the effective velocity within the energy spectra of the single layer graphene.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Jozef Bucko , František Herman

The conductance, the transmission and the reflection probabilities through rectangular potential barriers and pn-junctions are obtained for bilayer graphene taking into account the four bands of the energy spectrum. We have evaluated the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-28 B. Van Duppen , F. M. Peeters

Continuum atomic relaxation models for twisted bilayer graphene involve minimization of the sum of intralayer elastic energy and interlayer adhesion energy. The elastic energy favors a rigid twist i.e. no distortion in the twisted honeycomb…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-10 Jian Kang , Oskar Vafek

We study the localization properties of electrons in incommensurate twisted bilayer graphene for small angles, encompassing the narrow-band regime, by numerically exact means. Sub-ballistic states are found within the narrow-band region…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-08 Miguel Gonçalves , Hadi Z. Olyaei , Bruno Amorim , Rubem Mondaini , Pedro Ribeiro , Eduardo V. Castro

The creation of moir\'e superlattices in twisted bilayers of two-dimensional crystals has been utilised to engineer quantum material properties in graphene and transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductors. Here, we examine the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-27 J. G. McHugh , V. V. Enaldiev , V. I. Fal'ko

A properly strained graphene monolayer or bilayer is expected to harbour periodic pseudo-magnetic fields with high symmetry, yet to date, a convincing demonstration of such pseudo-magnetic fields has been lacking, especially for bilayer…

The effective theory for bilayer graphene (BLG), subject to parallel/in-plane magnetic fields, is derived. With a sizable magnetic field the trigonal warping becomes irrelevant, and one ends up with two Dirac points in the vicinity of each…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-08 Bitan Roy , Kun Yang

When twisted to angles near 1{\deg}, graphene multilayers provide a new window on electron correlation physics by hosting gate-tuneable strongly-correlated states, including insulators, superconductors, and unusual magnets. Here we report…

The charge susceptibility of twisted bilayer graphene is investigated in the Dirac cone, respectively random-phase approximation. For small enough twist angles $\theta\lesssim 2^\circ$ we find weakly Landau damped interband plasmons, i.~e.,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-14 T. Stauber , H. Kohler

In twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG), extremely small deviations from the magic twist angle $\theta_m{\approx}1.08^\circ$ change its electronic structure near the Fermi level drastically, causing a meV-wide flat band to appear or disappear.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-26 Xianqing Lin , Dan Liu , David Tománek

We theoretically study the electronic structure of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene with disordered moir\'e patterns. By using an extended continuum model incorporating non-uniform lattice distortion, we find that the local density of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Naoto Nakatsuji , Mikito Koshino

We consider the electronic structure of a slightly twisted graphene bilayer and show the coexistence of van Hove singularities (VHSs) and superlattice Dirac points in a continuum approximation. The graphene-on-graphene moir\'e pattern gives…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-19 Zhao-Dong Chu , Wen-Yu He , Lin He

Single-particle continuum models such as the popular Bistritzer-MacDonald model have become powerful tools for predicting electronic phenomena of incommensurate 2D materials and the development of many-body models aimed to model…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Xue Quan , Alex Watson , Daniel Massatt

A major theoretical challenge of studying twisted transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayers is that the unit cell of such structures is very large and therefore difficult to address using first-principles methods. However, twisted TMD…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-13 Madeleine Phillips , C. Stephen Hellberg

Graphene bilayers exhibit zero-energy flat bands at a discrete series of magic twist angles. In the absence of intra-sublattice inter-layer hopping, zero-energy states satisfy a Dirac equation with a non-abelian SU(2) gauge potential that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Yafei Ren , Qiang Gao , A. H. MacDonald , Qian Niu

The electronic spectra of rotationally faulted graphene bilayers are calculated using a continuum formulation for small fault angles that identifies two distinct electronic states of the coupled system. The low energy spectra of one state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-04 E. J. Mele

We theoretically study the electronic structure of small-angle twisted bilayer graphene with a large potential asymmetry between the top and bottom layers. We show that the emergent helical states known to appear on the triangular AB-BA…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Bonnie Tsim , Nguyen N. T. Nam , Mikito Koshino

Twisted bilayer graphene is an excellent example of highly correlated system demonstrating a nearly flat electron band, the Mott transition and probably a spin liquid state. Besides the one-electron picture, analysis of Dirac points is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-28 V. Yu. Irkhin , Yu. N. Skryabin

We formulate a continuum model to study the low-energy electronic structure of heterostructures formed by graphene on a strong three-dimensional topological insulator (TI) for the case of both commensurate and incommensurate stacking. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-18 Junhua Zhang , C. Triola , E. Rossi