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Graphene is a sturdy and chemically inert material exhibiting an exposed two-dimensional electron gas of high mobility. These combined properties enable the design of graphene composites either based on covalent or non- covalent coupling of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Adrien Allain , Zheng Han , Vincent Bouchiat

Twisted graphene multilayers have demonstrated to yield a versatile playground to engineer controllable electronic states. Here, by combining first-principles calculations and low-energy models, we demonstrate that twisted graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-04 Alejandro Lopez-Bezanilla , J. L. Lado

'Magic'-angle twisted bilayer graphene has received a lot of interest due to its flat bands with potentially non-trivial topology that lead to intricate correlated phases. A spectrum with flat bands, however, does not require a twist…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Anastasiia Skurativska , Stepan S. Tsirkin , Fabian D Natterer , Titus Neupert , Mark H Fischer

We consider the superconducting and Mott-insulating states for the twisted bilayer graphene, modeled as two narrow-band system of electrons with appreciable intraatomic Coulomb interactions. The interaction induces kinetic exchange which…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-29 Maciej Fidrysiak , Michał Zegrodnik , Józef Spałek

The nature of the insulating and superconducting states in twisted bilayer graphene systems is intensely debated. While many works seek for explanations in the few flat bands near the Fermi level, theory and a number of experiments suggest…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-06 Lennart Klebl , Carsten Honerkamp

When two graphene sheets are twisted relative to each other by a small angle, enhanced correlations lead to superconductivity whose origin remains under debate. Here, we derive some general constraints on superconductivity in twisted…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-07-25 Eslam Khalaf , Patrick Ledwith , Ashvin Vishwanath

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

Atomically thin van der Waals materials stacked with an interlayer twist have proven to be an excellent platform towards achieving gate-tunable correlated phenomena linked to the formation of flat electronic bands. In this work we…

We construct a minimal theory describing the optical activity of a thin sheet of a twisted material, the simplest example of which is twisted bilayer graphene. We introduce the notion of "twisted electrical conductivity", which parametrizes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-10 Dung Xuan Nguyen , Dam Thanh Son

Novel materials are in great demand for future applications. The discovery of graphene, a one atom thick carbon layer, holds the promise for unique device architectures and functionalities exploiting unprecedented physical phenomena. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-25 M. F. Craciun , S. Russo , M. Yamamoto , S. Tarucha

We calculate the finite-frequency conductivity of bilayer graphene with a relative twist between the layers. The low frequency response at zero doping shows a flat conductivity with value twice that of the monolayer case and at higher…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-12 Calvin J. Tabert , Elisabeth J. Nicol

Twisted bilayer graphene is an exciting platform for exploring correlated quantum phases, extremely tunable with respect to both the single-particle bands and the interaction profile of electrons. Here, we investigate the phase diagram of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-08 Nikita Astrakhantsev , Glenn Wagner , Tom Westerhout , Titus Neupert , Mark H. Fischer

A study of correlation effects in twisted bilayer graphene, using the extended coupled cluster method, is presented. This approach considers both self-consistent mean-field and beyond mean-field contributions, and can describe phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-20 Ingvars Vitenburgs , Niels R. Walet

Twisted bilayer graphenes with magical angle exhibit strongly correlated electronic properties because of the isolated flat band at the Fermi level. We studied the twisted bilayer graphene with substrates on both layers. The substrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-30 Ma Luo

We demonstrate that the electronic gap of a graphene bilayer can be controlled externally by applying a gate bias. From the magneto-transport data (Shubnikov-de Haas measurements of the cyclotron mass), and using a tight binding model, we…

We report the discovery of a series of non-equilibrium magic angles at which isolated topological flat quasienergy bands form in AA-stacked twisted multilayer graphene under circularly polarized light. These non-equilibrium magic angles can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-05 Yantao Li , Wang-Kong Tse

Using the first principles calculations, we show that mechanically tunable electronic energy gap is realizable in bilayer graphene if different homogeneous strains are applied to the two layers. It is shown that the size of energy gap can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-13 Seon-Myeong Choi , Seung-Hoon Jhi , Young-Woo Son

This is a theoretical study of electron transport in gated bilayer graphene - a novel semiconducting material with a tunable band gap. It is shown that the which-layer pseudospin coherence enhances the subgap conductivity and facilitates…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-28 Maxim Trushin

We show how the pairing symmetry of superconducting states in twisted bilayer graphene can be experimentally identified by theoretically studying effects of externally applied in-plane magnetic field and strain. In the low field regime,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-03 Fengcheng Wu , Sankar Das Sarma

Graphene moire superlattices have emerged as a platform hosting and abundance of correlated insulating, topological, and superconducting phases. While the origins of strong correlations and non-trivial topology are shown to be directly…