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We investigate the interplay of magnetic fluctuations and Cooper pairing in twisted bilayer graphene from a purely microscopic model within a large-scale tight-binding approach resolving the \AA ngstr\"om scale. For local onsite repulsive…

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The formation of a superstructure - with a related Moir\'e pattern - plays a crucial role in the extraordinary optical and electronic properties of twisted bilayer graphene, including the recently observed unconventional superconductivity.…

Bilayer moir\'e structures have attracted significant attention recently due to their spatially modulated layer degrees of freedom. However, the layer-dependent transport mechanism in the moir\'e structures is still a problem to be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 Chao-Jie Ren , Zhao Gong , Hui-Ying Mu , Xing-Tao An , Wang Yao , Jian-Jun Liu

Topology and electron interactions are two central themes in modern condensed matter physics. Here we propose graphene based systems where both the band topology and interaction effects can be simply controlled with electric fields. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-20 Ya-Hui Zhang , Dan Mao , Yuan Cao , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , T. Senthil

Moir\'e superlattices in van der Waals structures can be used to control the electronic properties of the material and lead to emergent correlated and topological phenomena. Its first demonstration in van der Waals magnets exhibited…

We have explored the electronic properties of stacked graphene flakes with the help of the quantum chemistry methods. We found that the behavior of a bilayer system is governed by the strength of the repulsive interactions that arise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Julia Berashevich , Tapash Chakraborty

Electrons residing in flat-band system can play a vital role in triggering spectacular phenomenology due to relatively large interactions and spontaneous breaking of different degeneracies. In this work we demonstrate chirally twisted…

We use a combination of analytic calculations and numerical simulations to demonstrate that electrical current flowing through a magnetic bilayer induces dynamical coupling between the layers. The coupling originates from the dependence of…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-02-13 S. Urazhdin

Bloch's theorem is the centerpiece of topological band theory, which itself has defined an era of quantum materials research. However, Bloch's theorem is broken by a perpendicular magnetic field, making it difficult to study topological…

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The bulk photovoltaic effect provides a fundamental pathway for direct light-to-current conversion in quantum materials. However, these nonlinear currents are often strictly constrained or forbidden by crystal symmetries, hindering their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Zhuocheng Lu , Zhuang Qian , Zhichao Guo , Likun Shi , Shi Liu , Hua Wang , Kai Chang

Bilayer graphene provides a unique platform to explore the rich physics in quantum Hall effect. The unusual combination of spin, valley and orbital degeneracy leads to interesting symmetry broken states with electric and magnetic field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Manabendra Kuiri , Anindya Das

Understanding the normal-metal state transport in twisted bilayer graphene near magic angle is of fundamental importance as it provides insights into the mechanisms responsible for the observed strongly correlated insulating and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-19 Gargee Sharma , Indra Yudhistira , Nilotpal Chakraborty , Derek Y. H. Ho , Michael S. Fuhrer , Giovanni Vignale , Shaffique Adam

We present non-linear transport measurements on suspended, current annealed bilayer graphene devices. Using a multi-terminal geometry we demonstrate that devices tend to be inhomogeneous and host two different electronic phases next to each…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-14 Frank Freitag , Markus Weiss , Romain Maurand , Jelena Trbovic , Christian Schönenberger

Moir\'e superlattices formed in stacks of two or more 2D crystals with similar lattice structures have recently become excellent platforms to reveal new physics in low-dimensional systems. They are, however, highly sensitive to the angle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-15 Tianyu Zhang , Chengxin Xiao , Hongxia Xue , Wang Yao , Dong-Keun Ki

A strong in-plane magnetic field drastically alters the low-energy spectrum of bilayer graphene by separating the parabolic energy dispersion into two linear Dirac cones. The effect of this dramatic change on the transport properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 M. Van der Donck , F. M. Peeters , B. Van Duppen

A twisted graphene bilayer exhibits a triangular Moir\'e pattern in the local stacking, that smoothly alternates between the three basic types AA', AB' and BA'. Under an interlayer bias U, the latter two types develop a spectral gap,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-26 Pablo San-Jose , Elsa Prada

Recently twisted bilayer graphene (t-BLG) emerges as a new strongly correlated physical platform near a magic twist angle, which hosts many exciting phenomena such as the Mott-like insulating phases, unconventional superconducting behavior…

Gapless bilayer graphene is susceptible to a variety of spontaneously gapped states. As predicted by theory and observed by experiment, the ground state is however topologically trivial, because a valley-independent gap is energetically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Chunlei Qu , Chuanwei Zhang , Fan Zhang

The valleys in hexagonal two-dimensional systems with broken inversion symmetry carry an intrinsic orbital magnetic moment. Despite this, such systems possess zero net magnetization unless additional symmetries are broken, since the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Brian T. Schaefer , Katja C. Nowack

We theoretically investigate the interaction of an ultrastrong femtosecond-long linearly polarized optical pulse with AB-stacked bilayer graphene. The pulse excite electrons from the valence into the conduction band, resulting in finite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Pardeep Kumar , Thakshila M. Herath , Vadym Apalkov , Mark I. Stockman