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We introduce twisted trilayer graphene (tTLG) with two independent twist angles as an ideal system for the precise tuning of the electronic interlayer coupling to maximize the effect of correlated behaviors. As established by experiment and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-12 Ziyan Zhu , Stephen Carr , Daniel Massatt , Mitchell Luskin , Efthimios Kaxiras

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) hosts nearly flat bands with narrow bandwidths of a few meV at certain {\em magic} twist angles. Here we show that in twisted gapped Dirac material bilayers, or massive twisted bilayer graphenes (MTBG),…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Srivani Javvaji , Jinhua Sun , Jeil Jung

The recent discovery of correlated insulator states and superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has paved the way to the experimental investigation of electronic correlations in tunable flat band systems realized in…

Twisted graphene multilayers exhibit strongly correlated insulating states and superconductivity due to the presence of ultraflat bands near the charge neutral point. In this paper, the response of ultraflat bands to lattice relaxation and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-08 Zewen Wu , Zhen Zhan , Shengjun Yuan

We investigate the effect of shear and strain in graphene bilayers, under conditions where the distortion of the lattice gives rise to a smooth one-dimensional modulation in the stacking sequence of the bilayer. We show that strain and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 J. Gonzalez

Twistronic has recently attracted tremendous attention because the twisting can engineer the bilayer graphene-like materials into varying types of strongly correlated phases. In this paper, we study the twisting of bilayer graphene (BLG)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-25 Ma Luo

We consider twisted bilayer and trilayer graphene in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling and explore the physics of Moir\'e spintronics. The electronic charge density has a sharp step right at the magic angles $\theta_m$. As a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Yshai Avishai , Yehuda Band

We examine the coexisting spin and charge density waves as a possible ground state of the magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene. When interactions are not included, the spectrum of the material has 4 (8 if spin is taken into account) almost…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-24 A. O. Sboychakov , A. V. Rozhkov , A. L. Rakhmanov

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…

Bilayer graphene twisted at the angle of about 1.1{\deg} better known as magic angle, exhibits ultra-flat moir\'e superlattice bands that are a source of highly-tunable, exotic quantum phenomena. Such phenomena, like superconductivity,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-05 Giovanna Feraco , Wissem Boubaker , Petra Rudolf , Antonija Grubišić-Čabo

The electronic bands of twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) with a large-period moir\'e superlattice fracture to form narrow Bloch minibands that are spectrally isolated by forbidden energy gaps from remote dispersive bands. When these gaps are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Vo Tien Phong , E. J. Mele

The crystal structure of a material creates a periodic potential that electrons move through giving rise to the electronic band structure of the material. When two-dimensional materials are stacked, the twist angle between the layers…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-07 Zhiming Zhang , Yimeng Wang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Keiji Ueno , Emanuel Tutuc , Brian J. LeRoy

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

Motivated by recent experiments probing the wavefunctions of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG), we perform large-scale first-principles calculations of tBLG with full atomic relaxation across a wide range of twist angles down to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Albert Zhu , Daniel Bennett , Daniel T. Larson , Mohammed M. Al Ezzi , Efstratios Manousakis , Efthimios Kaxiras

We report on the observation of photogalvanic effects in twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) with a twist angle of 0.6{\deg}. We show that excitation of tBLG bulk causes a photocurrent, whose sign and magnitude are controlled by orientation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 M. Otteneder , S. Hubmann , X. Lu , D. Kozlov , L. E. Golub , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , D. K. Efetov , S. D. Ganichev

The discovery of correlated electronic phases, including Mott-like insulators and superconductivity, in twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) near the magic angle, and the intriguing similarity of their phenomenology to that of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-21 Yuhang Jiang , Jinhai Mao , Xinyuan Lai , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Kristjan Haule , Eva Y. Andrei

We study the electronic structure of alternating-twist tetralayer graphene, especially near its magic angle $\theta = 1.75^\circ$, for different AA, AB, and SP sliding geometries at their middle interface that divides two twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-30 Kyungjin Shin , Jiseon Shin , Yoonsung Lee , Hongki Min , Jeil Jung

We study the atomic structure of twisted bilayer graphene, with very small mismatch angles ($\theta \sim 0.28^0$), a topic of intense recent interest. We use simulations, in which we combine a recently presented semi-empirical potential for…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-15 Sandeep K. Jain , Vladimir Juricic , Gerard T. Barkema

We study the electronic structure and band topology of fully relaxed twisted multi-layer graphene (TMLG). Isolated flat bands emerge in TMLG with the number of layers [$M+N$ with $M$ the layer number of the bottom few-layer graphene (FLG)]…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Xianqing Lin , Haotian Zhu , Jun Ni

Electronic properties of quantum dots (QDs) depend sensitively on their parent materials. Therefore, confined electronic states in graphene QDs (GQDs) of monolayer and Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene are quite different. Twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Xiao-Feng Zhou , Yi-Wen Liu , Hong-Yi Yan , Zhong-Qiu Fu , Haiwen Liu , Lin He