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We present a theory of phonon-mediated superconductivity in near magic angle twisted bilayer graphene. Using a microscopic model for phonon coupling to moir\'e band electrons, we find that phonons generate attractive interactions in both…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-12-19 Fengcheng Wu , A. H. MacDonald , Ivar Martin

Twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides are ideal platforms to study flat-band phenomena. In this paper, we investigate flat-band plasmons in the hole-doped twisted bilayer MoS$_2$ (tb-MoS$_2$) by employing a full tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Xueheng Kuang , Zhen Zhan , Shengjun Yuan

When two sheets of graphene stack in a twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) configuration, the resulting constrained overlap between interplanar 2p orbitals produce angle-tunable electronic absorption resonances. Using a novel combination of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-13 Hiral Patel , Lola Brown , Yufeng Liang , Li Yang , Jiwoong Park , Matt W. Graham

Using the tight-binding model, we report a gap opening in the energy spectrum of the twisted bilayer graphene under the application of pressure, that can be further amplified by the presence of a perpendicular bias voltage. The valley edges…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-27 V. G. M. Duarte , D. R. da Costa , N. M. R. Peres , L. K. Teles , A. J. Chaves

By comparing with recently available experimental data from several groups, we critically discuss the manifestation of continuum many body interaction effects in twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) with small twist angles and low carrier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-02 Sankar Das Sarma , Fengcheng Wu

Collective excitations of charged particles under the influence of an electromagnetic field give rise to a rich variety of hybrid light-matter quasiparticles with unique properties. In metals, intraband collective response manifested by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Tomer Eini , M. F. C. Martins Quintela , J. C. G. Henriques , R. M. Ribeiro , Yarden Mazor , N. M. R. Peres , Itai Epstein

Twisted double bilayer graphene has recently emerged as an interesting moir\'e material that exhibits strong correlation phenomena that are tunable by an applied electric field. Here we study the atomic and electronic properties of three…

We study localized plasmonic excitations in bilayer graphene (BLG) nanodisks, comparing AA-stacked and AB-stacked BLG and contrasting the results to the case of two monolayers without electronic hybridization. The electrodynamic response of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-07 Weihua Wang , Sanshui Xiao , N. Asger Mortensen

The collective excitation spectrum of two-dimensional (2D) antimonene is calculated beyond the low energy continuum approximation. The dynamical polarizability is computed using a 6-orbitals tight-binding model that properly accounts for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Guus Slotman , Alexander Rudenko , Edo van Veen , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Rafael Roldán , Shengjun Yuan

In graphene, charged defects break the electron-hole symmetry and can even give rise to exotic collapse states when the defect charge exceeds a critical value which is proportional to the Fermi velocity. In this work, we investigate the…

We identify qualitative trends in the stacking sequence dependence of carrier-carrier interaction phenomena in multilayer graphene. Our theory is based on a new approach which explicitly exhibits the important role in interaction phenomena…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-30 Yunsu Jang , E. H. Hwang , A. H. MacDonald , Hongki Min

We calculate the plasma excitations in a bundle as well as a two-dimensional (2D) periodic array of aligned parallel multishell nanotubes on a substrate. The carbon nanotubes are oriented perpendicular to the substrate. The model we use for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Tibab McNeish , Godfrey Gumbs , Antonios Balassis

Recent work investigated graphene's hydrogenation with independent control of the electric field, E, and charge density, n, in the crystal and showed that the process is controlled by n. Here, we demonstrate layer-selective…

The moir\'e of twisted graphene bilayers can generate flat bands in which charge carriers do not posses enough kinetic energy to escape Coulomb interactions with each other leading to the formation of novel strongly correlated electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 F. Mesple , A. Missaoui , T. Cea , L. Huder , G. Trambly de Laissardière , F. Guinea , C. Chapelier , V. T. Renard

The phase diagram of an interacting two-dimensional electron system in a high magnetic field is enriched by the varying form of the effective Coulomb interaction, which depends strongly on the Landau level index. While the fractional…

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

Recent experiments show how a bilayer graphene twisted around a certain magic angle becomes superconducting as it is doped into a region with approximate flat bands. We investigate the mean-field $s$-wave superconducting state in such a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-12-19 T. J. Peltonen , R. Ojajärvi , T. T. Heikkilä

Coherent motion of the electrons in the Bloch states is one of the fundamental concepts of the charge conduction in solid state physics. In layered materials, however, such a condition often breaks down for the interlayer conduction, when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Youngwook Kim , Hoyeol Yun , Seung-Geol Nam , Minhyeok Son , Dong Su Lee , Dong Chul Kim , S. Seo , Hee Cheul Choi , Hu-Jong Lee , Sang Wook Lee , Jun Sung Kim

Coulomb drag between parallel quantum wells provides a uniquely sensitive measurement of electron correlations since the drag response depends on interactions only. Recently it has been demonstrated that a new regime of strong interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 J. I. A. Li , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , J. Hone , A. Levchenko , C. R. Dean

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