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Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) realizes a highly tunable, strongly interacting system featuring superconductivity and various correlated insulating states. We establish gate-defined wires in TBG with proximity-induced spin-orbit coupling as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-23 Alex Thomson , Ina Sorensen , Stevan Nadj-Perge , Jason Alicea

In a groundbreaking experimental advance it was recently shown that by stacking two sheets of graphene atop of each other at a twist angle close to one of the so called "magic angles", an effective two-dimensional correlated system emerges.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-01 Lede Xian , Dante M. Kennes , Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean , Massimo Altarelli , Angel Rubio

Recent experimental discovery of flavor symmetry breaking metallic phases in Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene points to the strongly interacting nature of electrons near the top (bottom) of its valence (conduction) band. Superconductivity…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-23 Ming Xie , Sankar Das Sarma

The salient property of the electronic band structure of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), at the so-called magic angle (MA), is the emergence of flat bands around the charge neutrality point. These bands are associated with the observed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-04 Sonia Haddad , Takeo Kato , Jihang Zhu , Lassaad Mandhour

Twisted bilayer graphene (TwBLG) is one of the simplest van der Waals heterostructures, yet it yields a complex electronic system with intricate interplay between moir\'{e} physics and interlayer hybridization effects. We report on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-13 Y. Cao , J. Y. Luo , V. Fatemi , S. Fang , J. D. Sanchez-Yamagishi , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , E. Kaxiras , P. Jarillo-Herrero

Understanding and tuning correlated states is of great interest and significance to modern condensed matter physics. The recent discovery of unconventional superconductivity and Mott-like insulating states in magic-angle twisted bilayer…

When twisted to angles near 1{\deg}, graphene multilayers provide a new window on electron correlation physics by hosting gate-tuneable strongly-correlated states, including insulators, superconductors, and unusual magnets. Here we report…

Strongly correlated states are commonly emerged in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) with magic-angle, where the electron-electron (e-e) interaction U becomes prominent relative to the small bandwidth W of the nearly flat band. However, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-11 Kaihui Li , Long-Jing Yin , Chenglong Che , Xueying Liu , Yulong Xiao , Songlong Liu , Qingjun Tong , Si-Yu Li , Anlian Pan

Despite much theoretical work, developing a comprehensive ab initio model for twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) has proven challenging due to the inherent trade-off between accurately describing the band structure and incorporating the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-25 Run Hou , Shouvik Sur , Lucas K. Wagner , Andriy H. Nevidomskyy

The generalized tight-binding model is developed to investigate the magneto-electronic properties in twisted bilayer graphene system. All the interlayer and intralayer atomic interactions are included in the Moire superlattice. The twisted…

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

Magic angle twisted bilayer graphene has emerged as a powerful platform for studying strongly correlated electron physics, owing to its almost dispersionless low-energy bands and the ability to tune the band filling by electrostatic gating.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Nikhil Tilak , Xinyuan Lai , Shuang Wu , Zhenyuan Zhang , Mingyu Xu , Raquel de Almeida Ribeiro , Paul C Canfield , Eva Y. Andrei

In the present work, we consider the excitonic effects in the twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) within the rotated bilayer Hubbard model. Both, intralayer and interlayer Coulomb interactions have been considered and the half-filling condition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 V. Apinyan , T. K. Kopeć

In magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG), the moir\'e superlattice potential gives rise to narrow electronic bands1 which support a multitude of many-body quantum phases. Further richness arises in the presence of a perpendicular…

Graphene-based systems have emerged as a rich platform for exploring emergent quantum phenomena-including superconductivity, magnetism, and correlated insulating behavior-arising from flat electronic bands that enhance many-body…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Xinyu Cai , Fengfan Ren , Qiao Li , Yanran Shi , Yifan Wang , Yifan Zhang , Zhenghang Zhi , Jiawei Luo , Yulin Chen , Jianpeng Liu , Xufeng Kou , Zhongkai Liu

We consider confinement of Dirac fermions in $AB$-stacked bilayer graphene by inhomogeneous on-site interactions, (pseudo-)magnetic field or inter-layer interaction. Working within the framework of four-band approximation, we focus on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Miguel Castillo-Celeita , Vít Jakubský , Kevin Zelaya

We present an infinite density-matrix renormalization group (DMRG) study of an interacting continuum model of twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) near the magic angle. Because of the long-range Coulomb interaction and the large number of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-18 Tomohiro Soejima , Daniel E. Parker , Nick Bultinck , Johannes Hauschild , Michael P. Zaletel

We compute the phase diagram of twisted bilayer graphene near the magic angle where the occurrence of flat bands enhances the effects of electron-electron interactions and thus unleashes strongly-correlated phenomena. Most importantly, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-26 Dante M. Kennes , Johannes Lischner , Christoph Karrasch

Electrons residing in flat-band system can play a vital role in triggering spectacular phenomenology due to relatively large interactions and spontaneous breaking of different degeneracies. In this work we demonstrate chirally twisted…

The recently observed superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene emerges from insulating states believed to arise from electronic correlations. While there have been many proposals to explain the insulating behaviour, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-06 J. M. Pizarro , M. J. Calderón , E. Bascones

We use the DMRG to study the correlated electron states favored by the Coulomb interaction projected onto the narrow bands of twisted bilayer graphene within a spinless one-valley model. The Hilbert space of the narrow bands is constructed…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-05 Jian Kang , Oskar Vafek