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Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures ---formed by stacking or growing two-dimensional (2D) crystals on top of each other--- have emerged as a new promising route to tailor and engineer the properties of 2D materials. Twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 G. Catarina , B. Amorim , Eduardo V. Castro , J. M. Viana Parente Lopes , N. M. R. Peres

A detailed understanding of interacting electrons in twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) near the magic angle is required to gain insights into the physical origin of the observed broken symmetry phases. Here, we present extensive atomistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-02 Zachary A. H. Goodwin , Valerio Vitale , Xia Liang , Arash A. Mostofi , Johannes Lischner

We develop a low-energy continuum model to describe the moir\'{e} physics of heterostructures, which is a generalization of the celebrated Bistritzer-MacDonald (BM) method [R. Bistritzer and A. H. MacDonald, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 David T. S. Perkins , Joseph J. Betouras

We theoretically study the band structure and optical conductivity of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) near the magic angle considering the effects of lattice relaxation. We show that the optical conductivity spectrum is characterized by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Lu Wen , Zhiqiang Li , Yan He

In the magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MA-TBG), strong electron-electron (e-e) correlations caused by the band-flattening lead to many exotic quantum phases such as superconductivity, correlated insulator, ferromagnetism, and quantum…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-29 Ya-Ning Ren , Chen Lu , Yu Zhang , Si-Yu Li , Yi-Wen Liu , Chao Yan , Zi-Han Guo , Cheng-Cheng Liu , Fan Yang , Lin He

Moir\'e superlattices created by the twisted stacking of two-dimensional crystalline monolayers can host electronic bands with flat energy dispersion in which interaction among electrons is strongly enhanced. These superlattices can also…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 Xiaomeng Liu , Cheng-Li Chiu , Jong Yeon Lee , Gelareh Farahi , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ashvin Vishwanath , Ali Yazdani

Flat electronic bands, characteristic of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), host a wealth of correlated phenomena. Early theoretical considerations suggested that, at the magic angle, the Dirac velocity vanishes and the entire…

The unexpected discovery of superconductivity and strong electron correlation in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), a system containing only sp electrons, is considered as one of the most intriguing developments in two-dimensional materials in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Wei-Chen Wang , Feng-Wu Chen , Kuan-Sen Lin , Justin T. Hou , Ho-Chun Lin , Mei-Yin Chou

Structural engineering of van der Waals heterostructures via stacking and twisting has recently been used to create moir\'e superlattices, enabling the realization of new optical and electronic properties in solid-state systems. In…

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 van der Waals materials provide a tunable platform for investigating two-dimensional superconductivity and quantum phases. Using spectra-imaging scanning tunneling microscopy, we study the superconducting states in twisted bilayer…

Forming long wavelength moir\'e superlattices (MSL) at small-angle twist van der Waals (vdW) bilayers has been a key approach to creating moir\'e flat bands. The small-angle twist, however, leads to strong lattice reconstruction, causing…

Moire superlattices-twisted van der Waals (vdW) structures with small angles-are attracting increasing attention in condensed matter physics, due to important phenomena revealed therein, including unconventional superconductivity,…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-05 Jialin Chen , Xiao Lin , Mingyuan Chen , Tony Low , Hongsheng Chen , Siyuan Dai

Mott physics is at the root of a plethora of many-body quantum phenomena in quantum materials. Recently, the stacked or twisted structures of van der Waals (vdW) materials have emerged as a unique platform for realizing exotic correlated…

Twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) has recently emerged as a new platform for studying electron correlations, the strength of which can be controlled via the twist angle. Here, we study the effect of internal screening on electron-electron…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-18 Zachary A. H. Goodwin , Fabiano Corsetti , Arash A. Mostofi , Johannes Lischner

Twisted van der Waals heterostructures with flat electronic bands have recently emerged as a platform for realizing correlated and topological states with an extraordinary degree of control and tunability. In graphene-based moir\'e…

We show that the recently observed superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) can be explained as a consequence of the Kohn-Luttinger (KL) instability which leads to an effective attraction between electrons with originally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-21 J. González , T. Stauber

In magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG), the moir\'e superlattice potential gives rise to narrow electronic bands1 which support a multitude of many-body quantum phases. Further richness arises in the presence of a perpendicular…

Two monolayers of graphene twisted by a small `magic' angle exhibit nearly flat bands leading to correlated electronic states and superconductivity, whose precise nature including possible broken symmetries, remain under debate. Here we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-13 Jong Yeon Lee , Eslam Khalaf , Shang Liu , Xiaomeng Liu , Zeyu Hao , Philip Kim , Ashvin Vishwanath

Twisted graphene multi-layers have been recently demonstrated to share several correlation-driven behaviours with twisted bilayer graphene. In general, the van Hove singularities (VHSs) can be used as a proxy of the tendency for correlated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Hai Meng , Zhen Zhan , Shengjun Yuan