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The group of moir\'e graphene superconductors keeps growing, and by now it contains twisted graphene multilayers and twisted double bilayers. We analyze the contribution of long range charge fluctuations in the superconductivity of twisted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-05 Min Long , Alejandro Jimeno-Pozo , Hector Sainz-Cruz , Pierre A. Pantaleon , Francisco Guinea

In twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), a twist-angle-dependent competition between interlayer stacking energy and intralayer elastic energy results in flat rigid layers at large twist angles and lattice reconstruction at small twist angles.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Xiao-Feng Zhou , Yi-Wen Liu , Chen-Yue Hao , Chao Yan , Qi Zheng , Ya-Ning Ren , Ya-Xin Zhao , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Lin He

Optical second harmonic generation (SHG) is studied from multilayer graphene films in the presence of DC electric current flowing in the sample plane. Graphene layers are manufactured by chemical vapour deposition (CVD) technique and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Anton Y. Bykov , Tatiana V. Murzina , Maxim G. Rybin , Elena D. Obraztsova

The discovery of magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene (tTLG) adds a new twist to the family of graphene moir\'e. The additional graphene layer unlocks a series of intriguing properties in the superconducting phase, such as the violation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-05 Xiaoxue Liu , Naiyuan James Zhang , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , J. I. A. Li

Moire materials exhibit diverse quantum properties such as superconductivity and correlated topo logical phases, making them ideal for studying strongly correlated systems. While moire materials are typically formed by stacking…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-08 Depeng Ji , Qiaoling Xu , Lede Xian

The use of high quality hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) as a dielectric material has made possible the realization of graphene devices with very high mobility. In addition hBN can be made as thin as few atomic layers and, as recently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-30 Junhua Zhang , E. Rossi

In this article, we review the recent discoveries of exotic phenomena in graphene, especially superconductivity. It has been theoretically suggested for more than one decade that superconductivity may emerge in doped graphene-based…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-28 Yonghuan Chu , Fangduo Zhu , Linzhi Wen , Wanying Chen , Qiaoni Chen , Tianxing Ma

Twisted bilayers of nodal superconductors were recently proposed as a promising platform to host superconducting phases that spontaneously break time-reversal symmetry. Here we extend this analysis to twisted multilayers, focusing on two…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-07-28 Tarun Tummuru , Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise , Marcel Franz

Twisted-bilayer graphene (tBLG) exhibits van Hove singularities in the density of states that can be tuned by changing the twisting angle $\theta$. A $\theta$-defined tBLG has been produced and characterized with optical reflectivity and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Ado Jorio , Mark Kasperczyk , Nick Clark , Elke Neu , Patrick Maletinsky , Aravind Vijayaraghavan , Lukas Novotny

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MA-tBLG) has appeared as a tunable testing ground to investigate the conspiracy of electronic interactions, band structure, and lattice degrees of freedom to yield exotic quantum many-body ground states…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-09 J. M. Pizarro , M. Rösner , R. Thomale , R. Valentí , T. O. Wehling

Topology and electron interactions are two central themes in modern condensed matter physics. Here we propose graphene based systems where both the band topology and interaction effects can be simply controlled with electric fields. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-20 Ya-Hui Zhang , Dan Mao , Yuan Cao , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , T. Senthil

Electron interactions in quantum materials fundamentally shape their energy bands and, with them, the material's most intriguing quantum phases. Magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) has emerged as a model system, where flat bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 J. Xiao , A. Inbar , J. Birkbeck , N. Gershon , Y. Zamir , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , E. Berg , S. Ilani

The interlayer coupling of twisted bilayer graphene could markedly affect its electronic band structure. A current challenge required to overcome in experiment is how to precisely control the coupling and therefore tune the electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-07 Lan Meng , Wei Yan , Zhao-Dong Chu , Yanfeng Zhang , Lei Feng , Rui-Fen Dou , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He

The realization of the unusual properties of 2-d materials requires the formation of large domains of single layer thickness, extending over the mesoscale. It is found that the formation of ideal graphene on SiC, contrary to textbook…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-30 S. Chen , M. Horn von Hoegen , P. A. Thiel , M. C. Tringides

Twisted double bilayer graphene (tDBLG) is a moir\'e material that has recently generated significant interest because of the observation of correlated phases near the magic angle. We carry out atomistic Hartree theory calculations to study…

A variety of correlated phases have recently emerged in select twisted van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures owing to their flat electronic dispersions. In particular, heterostructures of twisted double bilayer graphene (tDBG) manifest…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 Minhao He , Yuhao Li , Jiaqi Cai , Yang Liu , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , Xiaodong Xu , Matthew Yankowitz

Twisted bilayer graphene provides a new two-dimensional platform for studying electron interaction phenomena and flat band properties such as correlated insulator transition, superconductivity and ferromagnetism at certain magic angles.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-10 Liheng An , Xiangbin Cai , Meizhen Huang , Zefei Wu , Jiangxiazi Lin , Zhehan Ying , Ziqing Ye , Xuemeng Feng , Ning Wang

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…

Though research on graphene by itself has waned, the interest in moire materials, materials made with stacked layers of graphene with a rotational twist between the layers, has exploded in popularity. These layered devices show a key…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-24 Ahmed Shaikh , Phanibhusan Singha Mahapatra , Eva Y. Andrei

Optical materials with colour-changing abilities have been explored for display devices, smart windows, or modulation of visual appearance. The efficiency of these materials, however, has strong wavelength dependence, which limits their…