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Twisted multilayer moir\'e materials are generically quasiperiodic on the moir\'e scale due to the interference of different misaligned moir\'e periodicities. Spatial inhomogeneities such as these can be detrimental to superconductivity;…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Xinghai Zhang , Ziyan Zhu , Justin H. Wilson , Matthew S. Foster

Twisted graphene layers exhibit extremely low friction for relative sliding. Nevertheless, previous studies suggest that the area contribution to friction for commensurate moir\'e systems is finite and might restrict macroscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Irina V. Lebedeva , Andrey M. Popov , Yulia G. Polynskaya , Andrey A. Knizhnik , Sergey A. Vyrko , Nikolai A. Poklonski

Realization of graphene moir\'e superstructures on the surface of 4d and 5d transition metals offers templates with periodically modulated electron density, which is responsible for a number of fascinating effects, including the formation…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-01-18 E. N. Voloshina , E. Fertitta , A. Garhofer , F. Mittendorfer , M. Fonin , A. Thissen , Yu. S. Dedkov

Several research groups have reported on the observation of superconductivity in bilayer graphene structures where single atomic layers of graphene are stacked and then twisted at angles $\theta$ forming Moir\'e superlattices. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-15 Evgueni F. Talantsev , Ratu C. Mataira , Wayne P. Crump

Heterostructures of atomically-thin materials have attracted significant interest owing to their ability to host novel electronic properties fundamentally distinct from their constituent layers. In the case of graphene on boron nitride, the…

Strain engineering of graphene takes advantage of one of the most dramatic responses of Dirac electrons enabling their manipulation via strain-induced pseudo-magnetic fields. Numerous theoretically proposed devices, such as resonant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 R. Banerjee , V. -H. Nguyen , T. Granzier-Nakajima , L. Pabbi , A. Lherbier , A. R. Binion , J. -C. Charlier , M. Terrones , E. W. Hudson

Recent studies show that periodic potentials can generate superlattice Dirac points at energies in graphene (is the Fermi velocity of graphene and G is the reciprocal superlattice vector). Here, we perform scanning tunneling microscopy and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-21 Hui Yan , Zhao-Dong Chu , Wei Yan , Mengxi Liu , Lan Meng , Mudan Yang , Yide Fan , Jiang Wang , Rui-Fen Dou , Yanfeng Zhang , Zhongfan Liu , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He

In the past decade, moir\'e materials have revolutionized how we engineer and control quantum phases of matter. Among incommensurate materials, moir\'e materials are aperiodic composite crystals whose long-wavelength moir\'e superlattices…

Most studies on moir\'e superlattices formed from a stack of h-BN and graphene have focused on single layer graphene; graphene with multiple layers is less understood. Here, we show that a moir\'e superlattice of multilayer graphene shows…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-02 Fumiya Mukai , Kota Horii , Ryoya Ebisuoka , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ryuta Yagi

Recent advances in van der Waals heterostructures have opened the new frontier of moir\'{e} physics, whereby tuning the interlayer twist angle or adjusting lattice parameter mismatch have led to a plethora of exotic phenomena such as…

Motivated by the phenomenology of graphene moir\'e superlattices, we study a 2D model with strong tendencies towards both magnetism and triplet superconductivity. Individually, their respective order parameters, $\vec{N}$ and $\vec{d}$,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-02-27 Prathyush P. Poduval , Mathias S. Scheurer

Rhombohedral multilayer graphene, with its flat electronic bands and concentrated Berry curvature, is a promising material for the realization of correlated topological phases of matter. When aligned to an adjacent hexagonal boron nitride…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Samuel H. Aronson , Tonghang Han , Zhengguang Lu , Yuxuan Yao , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Long Ju , Raymond C. Ashoori

Moir\'e superlattices constitute a versatile platform to investigate emergent phenomena arising from the interplay of strong correlations and topology, while offering flexible in situ tunability. However, the fabrication of such moir\'e…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Shuwen Sun , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

Moir\'e superlattices in van der Waals heterostructures are gaining increasing attention because they offer new opportunities to tailor and explore unique electronic phenomena when stacking 2D materials with small twist angles. Here, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-28 Junxi Yu , Rajiv Giridharagopal , Yuhao Li , Kaichen Xie , Jiangyu Li , Ting Cao , Xiaodong Xu , David S. Ginger

The effect of Mn intercalation on the atomic, electronic and magnetic structure of the graphene/Cu(111) interface is studied using state-of-the-art density functional theory calculations. Different structural models of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-23 Qilin Guo , Yuriy Dedkov , Elena Voloshina

Moir\'e superlattices of tunable wavelengths and the further developed moir\'e of moir\'e systems, by artificially assembling two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials as designed, have brought up a versatile toolbox to explore…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-23 Xiangbin Cai , Weibo Gao

The deposition of a two-dimensional material on the surface of a three-dimensional crystal can generate superlattices with electronic properties modified through the proximity spin-orbit effect. In this study, we found that Kekul\'e…

Here we report on a "new" type of ordering which allows to modify the electronic structure of a graphene monolayer (ML). We have intercalated small gold clusters between the top monolayer graphene and the buffer layer of epitaxial graphene.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. Cranney , F. Vonau , P. B. Pillai , E. Denys , D. Aubel , M. M. De Souza , C. Bena , L. Simon

Two-dimensional materials on metallic surfaces or stacked one on top of the other can form a variety of moir\'e superstructures depending on the possible parameter and symmetry mismatch and misorientation angle. In most cases, such as…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-10 Virginia Carnevali , Stefano Marcantoni , Maria Peressi

Moir\'e superlattices in van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures have given rise to a number of emergent electronic phenomena due to the interplay between atomic structure and electron correlations. A lack of a simple way to characterize…