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Twisted graphene moire superlattice has been demonstrated as an exotic platform for investigating correlated states and nontrivial topology. Among the moire family, twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG) is a tunable flat band system…

Flat bands, characterized by zero group velocity and strong energy localization, enable interaction-enhanced phenomena across both quantum and classical systems. Existing photonic flat-band implementations were limited to evanescent-wave…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-17 Han-Rong Xia , Ziyao Wang , Yunrui Wang , Zhen Gao , Meng Xiao

Full ranges of both hybrid plasmon-mode dispersions and their damping are studied systematically by our recently developed mean-field theory in open systems involving a conducting substrate and a two-dimensional (2D) material with a buckled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Andrii Iurov , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang , Liubov Zhemchuzhna

Two-dimensional moir\'e materials offer a powerful, twist-tunable platform for engineering electronic bands and correlations, though most studies to date have focused on small twist angles where flat bands arise from symmetry-pinned…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Giovanny Espitia , Seung Hun Lee , Calvin Kaiyu Chiu , Junyeong Ahn , Mit H. Naik

Multi-band touchings such as 3-band, 6-band and 8-band touchings together with the emergence of high pseudospin fermions were predicted recently at high-symmetry points in three-dimensional space. In this paper, we propose a simple cubic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Motohiko Ezawa

The theoretical framework, which is built from the first-principles results, is successfully developed for investigating emergent two-dimensional (2D) materials, as it is clearly illustrated by carbon substitution in silicene. Computer…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-03 Hai-Duong Pham , Shih-Yang Lin , Godfrey Gumbs , Nguyen Duy Khanh , Ming-Fa Lin

We study the geometric and electronic structures of silicene monolayer using density functional theory based calculations. The electronic structures of silicene show that it is a semi-metal and the charge carriers in silicene behave like…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-23 Kamal Chinnathambi

Silicene monolayers grown on Ag(111) surfaces demonstrate a band gap that is tunable by oxygen adatoms from semimetallic to semiconducting type. By using low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy, it is found that the adsorption…

Epitaxial bilayer silicon oxide is a transferable two-dimensional material predicted to be a wide band gap semiconductor, with potential applications for deep UV optoelectronics, or as a building block of van der Waals heterostructures. The…

Several lattices, such as the dice or the Lieb lattice, possess Dirac cones and a flat band crossing the Dirac point, whose effective model is the pseudospin-1 Dirac-Weyl equation. We investigate the fate of the flat band in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-13 Máté Vigh , László Oroszlány , Szabolcs Vajna , Pablo San-Jose , Gyula Dávid , József Cserti , Balázs Dóra

Understanding the nature of strongly correlated states in flat-band materials (such as moir\'e heterostructures) is at the forefront of both experimental and theoretical pursuits. While magnetotransport, scanning probe, and optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-05 Michał Papaj , Cyprian Lewandowski

Flat bands have become a pillar of modern condensed matter physics and photonics owing to the vanishing group velocity and diverging density of states. Here, we present a paradigmatic scheme to construct arbitrary flat bands on demand by…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-27 Moru Song , Jingyu Hu , Lina Shi , YongliangZhang , Kai Chang

Square-octagon lattice underlies the description of a family of two-dimensional materials such as tetragraphene. In the present paper we show that the tight-binding model of square-octagon lattice contains both conventional and high-order…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-13 D. O. Oriekhov , V. P. Gusynin , V. M. Loktev

Two-dimensional Graphene is fascinating because of its unique electronic properties. From a fundamental perspective, one among them is the geometric phase structure near the Dirac points in the Brillouin zone, owing to the SU(2) nature of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-23 Ankur Das , Sumiran Pujari

We investigate the electronic properties of MXenes by three bands tight-binding model of \d_{z^2} , \d_{xy} , and \d_{x^2-y^2} orbitals. The three corresponding bands touch each other at high symmetry K point in the case of absence of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-11 Phusit Nualpijit , Bumned Soodchomshom

Very recently, unconventional superconductivity has been observed in the double twisted trilayer graphene (TLG), where three monolayer graphene (MLG) are stacked on top of each other with two twist angles [J. M. Park, et al., Nature 590,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Miao Liang , Meng-Meng Xiao , Zhen Ma , Jin-Hua Gao

Collective plasma excitations in moir\'e flat bands display unique properties reflecting strong electron-electron interactions and unusual carrier dynamics in these systems. Unlike the conventional two-dimensional plasmon modes, dispersing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-06 Ali Fahimniya , Cyprian Lewandowski , Leonid Levitov

Electronic flat bands have localized Wannier-like orbitals as zero modes. In the Lieb or the kagome models, the localized orbitals satisfy a topological condition that entails two non-contractible loop eigenstates along $x/y$-axis in real…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Rui-Heng Liu , Jiangping Hu , Chen Fang

High-dielectric constant and wide band gap oxides have important technological applications. The crystalline oxide polymorphs having lattice constant compatibility to silicon are particularly desirable. One recently reported candidate is…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Sevik , C. Bulutay

The discovery of superconductivity in twisted bilayer and twisted trilayer graphene has generated tremendous interest. The key feature of these systems is an interplay between interlayer coupling and a moir\'e superlattice that gives rise…