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Twisted double bilayer graphene has recently emerged as an interesting moir\'e material that exhibits strong correlation phenomena that are tunable by an applied electric field. Here we study the atomic and electronic properties of three…
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Based on ab initio calculations, we study the effect of intercalating twisted bilayer graphene with carbon. Surprisingly, we find that the intercalant pulls the atoms in the two layers closer together locally when placed in certain regions…
The possibility of creating crystal bilayers twisted with respect to each other has led to the discovery of a wide range of novel electron correlated phenomena whose full understanding is still under debate. Here we propose and analyze a…
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