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Twisted bilayer graphene exhibits isolated, relatively flat electronic bands near charge neutrality when the interlayer rotation is tuned to specific magic angles. These small misalignments, typically below 1.1{\deg}, result in long-period…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Antonio Palamara , Michele Pisarra , Antonello Sindona

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) is known to have disorder in its twist angle. We show that in terms of a Dirac equation with a random gauge potential ${\bf A}({\bf r})$ this disorder becomes huge when the average twist angle is near the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Baruch Horovitz , Pierre Le Doussal

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

A number of moir\'e graphene systems have nearly flat topological bands where electron motion is strongly correlated. Though microscopically these systems are only quasiperiodic, they can typically be treated as translation invariant to an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Dan Mao , T. Senthil

The Bistritzer-MacDonald (BM) model, introduced in \cite{Bistritzer2011}, attempts to capture the electronic properties of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), even at incommensurate twist angles, by an effective periodic model over the bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Alexander B. Watson , Tianyu Kong , Allan H. MacDonald , Mitchell Luskin

Through extensive self-consistent Hartree-Fock calculations in a tight-binding model of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), we show that many-body effects lead to a considerable increase of the bandwidth of the flat bands and, concomitantly, to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Miguel Sánchez Sánchez , José González , Tobias Stauber

The recent discovery of superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has sparked a renewed interest in the strongly-correlated physics of $sp^2$ carbons, in stark contrast to preliminary investigations which were dominated by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-17 Deepanshu Aggarwal , Rohit Narula , Sankalpa Ghosh

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

When two graphene layers are rotated from AA or AB configuration by a small angle, the band structure changes dramatically. Numerical calculations have shown that, at certain discrete angles called magic angles, the low energy bands become…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-24 Hridis K. Pal

Magic-angle ($\theta=1.05^\circ$) twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) has shown two seemingly contradictory characters: the localization and quantum-dot-like behavior in STM experiments, and delocalization in transport experiments. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-12 Zhi-Da Song , B. Andrei Bernevig

We show that the entire continuous model of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) (and not just the two active bands) with particle-hole symmetry is anomalous and hence incompatible with a lattice model. Previous works, e.g., [Phys. Rev. Lett.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-29 Zhi-Da Song , Biao Lian , Nicolas Regnault , B. Andrei Bernevig

We analyze the electronic structure of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) nanoribbons close to the magic angle. We describe a transition from an incomplete to a complete moir\'e structure. By considering zigzag and armchair edge terminations,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-14 Elias Andrade , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Francisco Guinea , Gerardo G. Naumis

We compute the energy spectrum of a nearest-neighbor electron hopping model for bi-layer graphene at commensurate twist angles. Specifically, we focus on the simplest bi-layer lattices, with moire patterns that have no subcells. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-25 J. P. Rodriguez

Moire superlattices in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) and its derived structures can host exotic correlated quantum phenomena because the narrow moire flat minibands in those systems effectively enhance the electron-electron interaction.…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-18 Qiaoling Xu , Yuzheng Guo , Lede Xian

Topological flat bands at the Fermi level offer a promising platform to study a variety of intriguing correlated phase of matter. Here we present band engineering in the twisted orbital-active bilayers with spin-orbit coupling. The symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-15 Huan Wang , Yadong Jiang , Zhaochen Liu , Jing Wang

We present a framework for understanding the recently observed cascade transitions and the Landau level degeneracies at every integer filling of twisted bilayer graphene. The Coulomb interaction projected onto narrow bands causes the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-05 Jian Kang , B. Andrei Bernevig , Oskar Vafek

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) is a recently discovered two-dimensional superlattice structure which exhibits strongly-correlated quantum many-body physics, including strange metallic behavior and unconventional superconductivity. Most of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Cunyuan Jiang , Matteo Baggioli , Qing-Dong Jiang

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

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

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) is known for exhibiting highly correlated phases at magic angles due to the emergence of flat bands that enhance electron-electron interactions. In the TBG chiral model, electronic wave function properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-15 Leonardo A. Navarro-Labastida , Gerardo G. Naumis