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We develop a theory for the optical conductivity of doped multilayer graphene including the effects of electron-electron interactions. Applying the quantum kinetic formalism, we formulate a set of pseudospin Bloch equations that governs the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-03 Xiao Li , Wang-Kong Tse

Evidence of flat-band magnetism and half-metallicity in compressed twisted bilayer graphene is provided with first-principles calculations. We show that dynamic band-structure engineering in twisted bilayer graphene is possible by…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-05 Alejandro Lopez-Bezanilla

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

We present a simple derivation of a continuum Hamiltonian for bilayer graphene with an arbitrary smooth lattice deformation -- technically in a fashion parametrized by displacement fields with small gradients. We show that this subsumes the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-16 Leon Balents

Twisted bilayer graphene gives rise to large moir\'{e} patterns that form a triangular network upon mechanical relaxation. If gating is included, each triangular region has gapped electronic Dirac points that behave as bulk topological…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-05-26 Guillaume Bal , Paul Cazeaux , Daniel Massatt , Solomon Quinn

We show that the flat bands in the chiral model of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene remain exactly flat in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. This is shown by an exact mapping between the model and the lowest Landau level…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-29 Yarden Sheffer , Ady Stern

The chiral Hamiltonian for twisted graphene bilayers is written as a $2\times2$ matrix operator by a renormalization of the Hamiltonian that takes into account the particle-hole symmetry. This results in an effective Hamiltonian with an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 Gerardo G. Naumis , Leonardo A. Navarro-Labastida , Enrique Aguilar-Méndez , Abdiel Espinosa-Champo

We study the possibility of charge order at quarter filling and antiferromagnetism at half-filling in a tight-binding model of magic angle twisted bilayer graphene. We build on the model proposed by Kang and Vafek [Physical Review X 8(3),…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-07 B. Pahlevanzadeh , P. Sahebsara , D. Sénéchal

The perfect transmission in graphene monolayer and the perfect reflection in Bernal graphene bilayer for electrons incident in the normal direction of a potential barrier are viewed as two incarnations of the Klein paradox. Here we show a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-13 Wen-Yu He , Zhao-Dong Chu , Lin He

We present a theoretical study of the local optical conductivity, plasmon spectra, and thermoelectric properties of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) at different filling factors and twist angles $\theta$. Our calculations are based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-04 Pietro Novelli , Iacopo Torre , Frank H. L. Koppens , Fabio Taddei , Marco Polini

Understanding the mechanisms governing the optical activity of layered-stacked materials is crucial to the design of devices aimed at manipulating light at the nanoscale. Here, we show that both twisted and slid bilayer graphene are chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-30 V. Nam Do , H. Anh Le , V. Duy Nguyen , D. Bercioux

The tight-binding model of electrons in graphene is reviewed. We derive low-energy Hamiltonians supporting massless Dirac-like chiral fermions and massive chiral fermions in monolayer and bilayer graphene, respectively, and we describe how…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Edward McCann

We study the electronic and topological properties of fully relaxed twisted bilayer (TBG) and double bilayer (TDBG) graphene under perpendicular pressure. An approach has been proposed to obtain the equilibrium in-plane structural…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-20 Xianqing Lin , Haotian Zhu , Jun Ni

This paper presents a mathematical and numerical analysis of the flatband wavefunctions occurring in the chiral model of twisted bilayer graphene at the "magic" twist angles. We show that the chiral model possesses an exact intra-valley…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Jie Wang , Yunqin Zheng , Andrew J. Millis , Jennifer Cano

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

Correlated insulators and superconductivity have been observed in "magic-angle" twisted bilayer graphene, when the nearly flat bands close to neutrality are partially filled. While a momentum-space continuum model accurately describes these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-04 Hoi Chun Po , Liujun Zou , T. Senthil , Ashvin Vishwanath

We provide a systematic real space derivation of the continuum Hamiltonian for a graphene bilayer starting from a microscopic lattice theory, allowing for an arbitrary inhomogeneous smooth lattice deformation, including a twist. Two…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-24 Oskar Vafek , Jian Kang

A major hurdle in understanding the phase diagram of twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) are the roles of lattice relaxation and electronic structure on isolated band flattening near magic twist angles. In this work, the authors develop an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-28 Shivesh Pathak , Tawfiqur Rakib , Run Hou , Andriy Nevidomskyy , Elif Ertekin , Harley T. Johnson , Lucas K. Wagner

We analyze a description of twisted graphene bilayers, that incorporates deformation of the layers due to the nature modern interlayer potentials, and a modification of the hopping parameters between layers in the light of the classic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-29 Francisco Guinea , Niels R. Walet

In this paper, we extend the discrete-to-continuum procedure we developed in our previous work to derive a continuum variational model for a hexagonal twisted bilayer material in which one layer is fixed. We use a discrete energy containing…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-15 Malena I. Espanol , Dmitry Golovaty , J. Patrick Wilber