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Two-dimensional atomic crystals can radically change their properties in response to external influences such as substrate orientation or strain, resulting in essentially new materials in terms of the electronic structure. A striking…

A striking series of experiments have observed superconductivity in Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene (BBG) when the energy bands are flattened by applying an electrical displacement field. Intriguingly, superconductivity manifests only at…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-03 Glenn Wagner , Yves H. Kwan , Nick Bultinck , Steven H. Simon , S. A. Parameswaran

The interplay of twist and strain in bilayer graphene enables the formation of moir\'e patterns and narrow bands that host correlated and topological phases. While magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has been widely studied, strain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Federico Escudero , Dong Wang , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Shengjun Yuan , Francisco Guinea , Zhen Zhan

Twisted two-dimensional structures open new possibilities in band structure engineering. At magic twist angles, flat bands emerge, which give a new drive to the field of strongly correlated physics. In twisted double bilayer graphene dual…

Rotational misalignment or twisting of two mono-layers of graphene strongly influences its electronic properties. Structurally, twisting leads to large periodic supercell structures, which in turn can support intriguing strongly correlated…

We report on a double moir\'e system consisting of four graphene layers, where the top and bottom pairs form small-twist-angle bilayer graphene, and the middle interface has a large rotational mismatch. This system shows clear signatures of…

Electronic correlations in two-dimensional materials play a crucial role in stabilising emergent phases of matter. The realisation of correlation-driven phenomena in graphene has remained a longstanding goal, primarily due to the absence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Saisab Bhowmik , Arindam Ghosh , U. Chandni

Flatbands with extremely narrow bandwidths on the order of a few mili-electron volts can appear in twisted multilayer graphene systems for appropriate system parameters. Here we investigate the electronic structure of a twisted bi-bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-24 Narasimha Raju Chebrolu , Bheema Lingam Chittari , Jeil Jung

The emergence of flat electronic bands and of the recently discovered strongly correlated and superconducting phases in twisted bilayer graphene crucially depends on the interlayer twist angle upon approaching the magic angle $\theta_M…

Bilayer graphene -- two coupled single graphene layers stacked as in graphite -- provides the only known semiconductor with a gap that can be tuned externally through electric field effect. Here we use a tight binding approach to study how…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-29 Eduardo V. Castro , N. M. R. Peres , J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos , F. Guinea , A. H. Castro Neto

By tuning the angle between graphene layers to specific "magic angles" the lowest energy bands of twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) can be made flat. The flat nature of the bands favors the formation of collective ground states and, in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-12-09 Xiang Hu , Timo Hyart , Dmitry I. Pikulin , Enrico Rossi

The coexistence of superconducting and correlated insulating states in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene prompts fascinating questions about the relationship of these orders. Independent control of the microscopic mechanisms governing…

Large-angle twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) is known to be electronically decoupled due to the spatial separation of the Dirac cones corresponding to individual graphene layers in the reciprocal space. The close spacing between the layers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-28 Alina Mrenca-Kolasinska , Peter Rickhaus , Giulia Zheng , Klaus Richter , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin , Ming-Hao Liu

The possibility of triggering correlated phenomena by placing a singularity of the density of states near the Fermi energy remains an intriguing avenue towards engineering the properties of quantum materials. Twisted bilayer graphene is a…

Superlattice potential modulation can produce flat minibands in Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene. In this work we study how band topology and interaction-induced symmetry-broken phases in this system are controlled by tuning the displacement…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-04 Yongxin Zeng , Tobias M. R. Wolf , Chunli Huang , Nemin Wei , Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Allan H. MacDonald , Jennifer Cano

We introduce a new approach that allows one complete control over the modulation of the effective twist angle change in few-layer van der Waals heterostructures by irradiating them with longitudinal waves of light at the end of a waveguide.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Michael Vogl , Martin Rodriguez-Vega , Gregory A. Fiete

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) near "magic angles" has emerged as a rich platform for strongly correlated states of two-dimensional Dirac semimetals. Here we show that twisted bilayers of thin-film magnetic topological insulators (MTI) with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Gaurav Chaudhary , Anton A. Burkov , Olle G. Heinonen

An interlayer distance modulation in twisted bilayer graphene is reported. This is achieved by an in-situ annealing technique. The transformation of systematic vacuum and hydrogen annealing effects in twisted bilayer CVD graphene on SiO2…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-26 Jothiramalingam Kulothungan , Manoharan Muruganathan , Hiroshi Mizuta

Superconductivity has been previously observed in magic-angle twisted stacks of monolayer graphene but conspicuously not in twisted stacks of bilayer graphene, although both systems host topological flat bands and symmetry-broken states.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-13 Ruiheng Su , Manabendra Kuiri , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Joshua Folk

Though research on graphene by itself has waned, the interest in moire materials, materials made with stacked layers of graphene with a rotational twist between the layers, has exploded in popularity. These layered devices show a key…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-24 Ahmed Shaikh , Phanibhusan Singha Mahapatra , Eva Y. Andrei