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We report scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and spectroscopy (STS) of twisted graphene bilayer on SiC substrate. For twist angle ~ 4.5o the Dirac point ED is located about 0.40 eV below the Fermi level EF due to the electron doping at the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-03 Lan Meng , Yanfeng Zhang , Wei Yan , Lei Feng , Lin He , Rui-Fen Dou , Jia-Cai Nie

Parallel ("nested") regions of a Fermi surface (FS) drive instabilities of the electron fluid, for example the spin density wave in elemental chromium. In one-dimensional materials, the FS is trivially fully nested (a single nesting vector…

This work investigates the electronic properties of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) through computational calculations, with the aim of understanding the emergence of flat bands and conditions favorable for superconductivity close to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Rajendra Paudel , Nabin Upadhya Dhakal , Nurapati Pantha

We demonstrate terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) to be an accurate, rapid and scalable method to probe the interaction-induced Fermi velocity renormalization {\nu}F^* of charge carriers in graphene. This allows the quantitative…

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) exhibits a wide range of intriguing physical properties, such as superconductivity, ferromagnetism, and superlubricity. Depending on the twist angle, periodic moir\'e superlattices form in twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Vahid Morovati , Zhiming Xue , Kenneth M. Liechti , Rui Huang

Interlayer sliding, together with twist angle, is a crucial parameter that defines the atomic registry and thus determines the properties of two-dimensional (2D) material homobilayers. Here, we theoretically demonstrate that controlled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Jie Pan , Huanhuan Wang , Lin Zou , Xiaoyu Wang , Lihao Zhang , Xueyan Dong , Haibo Xie , Yi Ding , Yuze Zhang , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Shuxi Wang , Zhe Wang

Using first-principles techniques, we calculate the renormalization of the electron Fermi velocity and the vibrational lifetimes arising from electron-phonon interactions in doped bilayer graphene and in graphite and compare the results…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-12-23 Cheol-Hwan Park , Feliciano Giustino , Marvin L. Cohen , Steven G. Louie

We describe a technique which allows a direct measurement of the relative Fermi energy in an electron system using a double layer structure, where graphene is one of the two layers. We illustrate this method by probing the Fermi energy as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-26 Seyoung Kim , Insun Jo , D. C. Dillen , D. A. Ferrer , B. Fallahazad , Z. Yao , S. K. Banerjee , E. Tutuc

Here we study the evolution of local electronic properties of a twisted graphene bilayer induced by a strain and a high curvature. The strain and curvature strongly affect the local band structures of the twisted graphene bilayer; the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Wei Yan , Wen-Yu He , Zhao-Dong Chu , Mengxi Liu , Lan Meng , Rui-Fen Dou , Yanfeng Zhang , Zhongfan Liu , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He

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

In the context of the low energy effective theory, the exact Landau level spectrum of quasiparticles in twisted bilayer graphene with small twist angle is analytically obtained by spheroidal eigenvalues. We analyze the dependence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Min-Young Choi , Young-Hwan Hyun , Yoonbai Kim

Renormalization of Landau level energies in graphene in strong magnetic field due to Coulomb interaction is studied theoretically, and calculations are compared with two experiments on carrier-density dependent scanning tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 Alexey A. Sokolik , Yurii E. Lozovik

Superlattices (SLs) in monolayer and bilayer graphene, formed by spatially periodic potential variations, lead to a modified bandstructure with extra finite-energy and zero-energy Dirac fermions with tunable anisotropic velocities. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 Si Wu , Matthew Killi , Arun Paramekanti

The bands of graphite are extremely sensitive to topological defects which modify the electronic structure. In this paper we found non-dispersive flat bands no farther than 10 meV of the Fermi energy in slightly twisted bilayer graphene as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-21 E. Suárez Morell , J. D. Correa , P. Vargas , M. Pacheco , Z. Barticevic

We present a multi-scale density functional theory (DFT) informed molecular dynamics and tight-binding (TB) approach to capture the interdependent atomic and electronic structures of twisted bilayer graphene. We calibrate the flat band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-17 Nicolas Leconte , Srivani Javvaji , Jiaqi An , Appalakondaiah Samudrala , Jeil Jung

We develop a two stage renormalization group which connects the continuum Hamiltonian for twisted bilayer graphene at length scales shorter than the moire superlattice period to the Hamiltonian for the active narrow bands only which is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-21 Oskar Vafek , Jian Kang

Recent experiments have observed possible spin- and valley-polarized insulators and spin-triplet superconductivity in twisted double bilayer graphene, a moire structure consisting of a pair of Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene. Besides the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-12 Yi-Ting Hsu , Fengcheng Wu , S. Das Sarma

Control over minivalley polarization and interlayer coupling is demonstrated in double bilayer graphene twisted with an angle of 2.37$^\circ$. This intermediate angle is small enough for the minibands to form and large enough such that the…

The emergence of flat bands in twisted bilayer graphene leads to an enhancement of interaction effects, and thus to insulating and superconducting phases at low temperatures, even though the exact mechanism is still widely debated. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-15 Tommaso Cea , Niels R. Walet , Francisco Guinea

The electronic structure of the zig-zag bilayer strip is analyzed. The electronic spectra of the bilayer strip is computed. The dependence of the edge state band flatness on the bilayer width is found. The density of states at the Fermi…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-04 M. Pudlak , R. Pincak