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The low-energy bands of twisted bilayer graphene form Dirac cones with approximate electron-hole symmetry at small rotation angles. These crossings are protected by the emergent symmetries of moir\'e patterns, conferring a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Hector Ochoa

Twisted van der Waals materials provide a tunable platform for investigating two-dimensional superconductivity and quantum phases. Using spectra-imaging scanning tunneling microscopy, we study the superconducting states in twisted bilayer…

Van Hove singularities (VHS's) in the density of states play an outstanding and diverse role for the electronic and thermodynamic properties of crystalline solids. At the critical point the Fermi surface connectivity changes and topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-06 Youngwook Kim , Patrick Herlinger , Pilkyung Moon , Mikito Koshino , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Jurgen. H Smet

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…

In this work we analyze the shift current conductivity in helical twisted trilayer graphene. Without loss of generality, we show that the density of states and the twist angle set an upper bound for this response, which is inversely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Yuncheng Mao , Claudio Attaccalite , Diego García Ovalle

In Bernal stacked bilayer graphene interlayer coupling significantly affects the electronic bandstructure compared to monolayer graphene. Here we present magnetotransport experiments on high-quality $n$-doped bilayer MoS$_{2}$. By measuring…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Riccardo Pisoni , Tim Davatz , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin

The electronic properties and optical excitations are investigated in the geometry- and field-modulated bilayer graphene systems, respectively, by using the tight-binding model and Kubo formula. The stacking symmetry of bilayer graphene can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-23 Chiun-Yan Lin , Ming-Fa Lin

We investigate the fine structure in the energy spectrum of bilayer graphene in the presence of various stacking defaults, such as a translational or rotational mismatch. This fine structure consists of four Dirac points that move away from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-22 R. de Gail , M. O. Goerbig , G. Montambaux

Two-dimensional systems with flat bands support correlated phases such as superconductivity and charge fractionalization. While twisted moire systems like twisted bilayer graphene have revealed such states, they remain complex to control.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 Elias Andrade , Alejandro Jimeno-Pozo , Pierre A. Pantaleon , Francisco Guinea , Gerardo G. Naumis

We present a theoretical study on the electron transmission through the AB-BA stacking boundary in multilayer graphene. Using the tight-binding model and the transfer matrix method, we calculate the electron transmission probability through…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-08-05 Nguyen N. T. Nam , Mikito Koshino

We demonstrate theoretically that the topology of energy bands and Fermi surface in bilayer graphene undergoes a very sensitive transition when extremely tiny lateral interlayer shift occurs in arbitrary directions. The phenomenon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-17 Young-Woo Son , Seon-Myeong Choi , Yoon Pyo Hong , Sungjong Woo , Seung-Hoon Jhi

We analyze the elastic properties, structural effects, and low-energy physics of a sheared nanoribbon placed on top of graphene, which creates a gradually changing moire pattern. By means of a classical elastic model we derive the strains…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Pierre A. Pantaleon , Hector Sainz-Cruz , Francisco Guinea

Electron wavefunctions in twisted bilayer graphene may have a strong single layer character or be intrinsically delocalized between layers, with their nature often determined by how energetically close they are to the Dirac point. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-06 Chi-Ken Lu , H. A. Fertig

Twisted graphene bilayers develop highly localised states around AA-stacked regions for small twist angles. We show that interaction effects may induce either an antiferromagnetic (AF) and a ferromagnetic (F) polarization of said regions,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Luis A. Gonzalez-Arraga , J. L. Lado , Francisco Guinea , Pablo San-Jose

In binary compound 2D insulators/semiconductors such as hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), the different electron affinities of atoms can give rise to out-of-plane electric polarizations across inversion asymmetric van der Waals interface of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-04 Hongyi Yu , Ziheng Zhou , Wang Yao

Evidence of flat-band magnetism and half-metallicity in compressed twisted bilayer graphene is provided with first-principles calculations. We show that dynamic band-structure engineering in twisted bilayer graphene is possible by…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-05 Alejandro Lopez-Bezanilla

The rich physics of magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) results from the Coulomb interactions of electrons in flat bands of non-trivial topology. While the bands' dispersion is well characterized, accessing their topology remains an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 F. Mesple , P. Mallet , G. Trambly de Laissardière , C. Dutreix , G. Lapertot , J-Y. Veuillen , V. T. Renard

We investigate the electronic density redistribution of rotated bilayer graphene under a perpendicular electric field, showing that the layers are actually coupled even for large angles. This layer-layer coupling is evidenced by the charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-26 E. Suárez Morell , P. Vargas , L. Chico , L. Brey

We systematically investigate the nonlinear photogalvanic effect in few-layer graphene with various stacking orders, including AA- and AB-stacked bilayers, and AAA-, ABA-, and ABC-stacked trilayers. Using a tight-binding model to describe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Zhaohang Li , Kainan Chang , Haoyu Li , Yuxuan Gao , Wei Xin , Jinluo Cheng , Haiyang Xu

We study a family of globally smooth spatially varying two dimensional stacking textures in bilayer graphene. We find that the strain-minimizing stacking patterns connecting inequivalent ground states with local $AB$ and $BA$ interlayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-01 Xingting Gong , E. J. Mele