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Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene exhibits quasi-flat low-energy bands with Van Hove singularities close to the Fermi level. These singularities play an important role in the exotic phenomena observed in this material, such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-08 Aleksander Sanjuan Ciepielewski , Jakub Tworzydło , Timo Hyart , Alexander Lau

Despite the structures and properties of tilt grain boundaries of graphite surface and graphene have been extensively studied, their effect on the structures and electronic spectra of graphene layers has not been fully addressed. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-13 Long-Jing Yin , Jia-Bin Qiao , Wen-Xiao Wang , Zhao-Dong Chu , Kai Fen Zhang , Rui-Fen Dou , Chun Lei Gao , Jin-Feng Jia , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He

Experiments on bilayer graphene unveiled a fascinating realization of stacking disorder where triangular domains with well-defined Bernal stacking are delimited by a hexagonal network of strain solitons. Here we show by means of numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-13 Fernando Gargiulo , Oleg V. Yazyev

Van der Waals heterostructures form a massive interdisciplinary research field, fueled by the rich material science opportunities presented by layer assembly of artificial solids with controlled composition, order and relative rotation of…

Lack of directional bonding between two-dimensional crystals like graphene or monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides provides unusual freedom in selection of components for vertical van der Waals heterostructures. However, even for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-20 J. J. P. Thompson , D. Pei , H. Peng , H. Wang , N. Channa , H. L. Peng , A. Barinov , N. B. M. Schröter , Y. Chen , M. Mucha-Kruczyński

Two monolayers of graphene twisted by a small `magic' angle exhibit nearly flat bands leading to correlated electronic states and superconductivity, whose precise nature including possible broken symmetries, remain under debate. Here we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-13 Jong Yeon Lee , Eslam Khalaf , Shang Liu , Xiaomeng Liu , Zeyu Hao , Philip Kim , Ashvin Vishwanath

In this work we demonstrate that a free-standing van der Waals heterostructure, usually regarded as a flat object, can exhibit an intrinsic buckled atomic structure resulting from the interaction between two layers with a small lattice…

We study electronic contribution to the Raman scattering signals of two-, three- and four-layer graphene with layers at one of the interfaces twisted by a small angle with respect to each other. We find that the Raman spectra of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-11 A. Garcia-Ruiz , J. J. P. Thompson , M. Mucha-Kruczynski , V. I. Fal'ko

Twisted graphene multi-layers have been recently demonstrated to share several correlation-driven behaviours with twisted bilayer graphene. In general, the van Hove singularities (VHSs) can be used as a proxy of the tendency for correlated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Hai Meng , Zhen Zhan , Shengjun Yuan

Van der Waals heterostructures provide a rich platform for emergent physics due to their tunable hybridization of electronic orbital- and spin-degrees of freedom. Here, we show that a heterostructure formed by twisted bilayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 Tobias M. R. Wolf , Oded Zilberberg , Gianni Blatter , Jose L. Lado

Moir\'e superlattices (MSL) formed in angle-aligned bilayers of van der Waals materials have become a promising platform to realize novel two-dimensional electronic states. Angle-aligned trilayer structures can form two sets of MSLs which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-18 Xiong Huang , Lingxiu Chen , Shujie Tang , Chengxin Jiang , Chen Chen , Huishan Wang , Zhi-Xun Shen , Haomin Wang , Yong-Tao Cui

Twisted van der Waals heterostructures unravel a new platform to study strongly correlated quantum phases. The interlayer coupling in these heterostructures is sensitive to twist angles ($\theta$) and key to controllably tune several exotic…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-12-03 Rahul Debnath , Indrajit Maity , Manish Jain , Arindam Ghosh

Moir\'e patterns formed by stacking atomically-thin van der Waals crystals with a relative twist angle can give rise to dramatic new physical properties. The study of moir\'e materials has so far been limited to structures comprising no…

We study the presence of higher-order van Hove singularities in mirror-symmetric twisted trilayer graphene. This geometry has recently emerged experimentally as a fascinating playground for studying correlated and exotic superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-28 Daniele Guerci , Pascal Simon , Christophe Mora

We consider the role of deformations in graphene heterostructures with hexagonal crystals (including strain, wrinkles and dislocations) on the geometrical properties of moire patterns characteristic for a pair of two incommensurate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-27 Diana A. Cosma , John R. Wallbank , Vadim Cheianov , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

When two-dimensional van der Waals materials are stacked to build heterostructures, moir\'e patterns emerge from twisted interfaces or from mismatch in lattice constant of individual layers. Relaxation of the atomic positions is a direct,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-15 Dorri Halbertal , Lennart Klebl , Valerie Hsieh , Jacob Cook , Stephen Carr , Guang Bian , Cory Dean , Dante M. Kennes , Dmitri. N. Basov

Transport experiments in twisted bilayer graphene revealed multiple superconducting domes separated by correlated insulating states. These properties are generally associated with strongly correlated states in a flat mini-band of the…

Divergent density of states offers the unique opportunity to explore a wide variety of correlated electron physics. In the thinnest limit, this has been predicted and verified in the ultra-flat bands of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-15 Anna M. Seiler , Fabian R. Geisenhof , Felix Winterer , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Tianyi Xu , Fan Zhang , R. Thomas Weitz

Twisted van der Waals materials have risen as highly tunable platform for realizing unconventional superconductivity. Here we demonstrate how a topological superconducting state can be driven in a twisted graphene multilayer at a twist…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Maryam Khosravian , Elena Bascones , Jose L. Lado

We derive electronic structure models for weakly interacting bilayers such as graphene-graphene and graphene-hexagonal boron nitride, based on density functional theory calculations followed by Wannier transformation of electronic states.…

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