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A purely electronic mechanism is proposed for the unconventional superconductivity recently observed in twisted bilayer graphene (tBG) close to the magic angle. Using the Migdal-Eliashberg framework on a one parameter effective lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-19 Gargee Sharma , Maxim Trushin , Oleg P. Sushkov , Giovanni Vignale , Shaffique Adam

We use self-consistent Hartree-Fock calculations performed in the full $\pi$-band Hilbert space to assess the nature of the recently discovered correlated insulator states in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG). We find that gaps…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-11 Ming Xie , Allan H. MacDonald

Twisted trilayer graphene (TLG) may be the simplest realistic system so far, which has flat bands with nontrivial topology. Here, we give a detailed calculation about its band structures and the band topology, i.e. valley Chern number of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Zhen Ma , Shuai Li , Ya-Wen Zheng , Meng-Meng Xiao , Hua Jiang , Jin-Hua Gao , X. C. Xie

Recent experimental discoveries of superconductivity and other exotic electronic states in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) call for a reconsideration of our traditional theories of these states, usually based on the assumption of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-09-06 Tero T. Heikkila , Timo Hyart

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

The flat electronic bands in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) host a variety of correlated insulating ground states, many of which are predicted to support charged excitations with topologically non-trivial spin and/or valley…

We investigate the band structure of twisted monolayer-bilayer graphene (tMBG), or twisted graphene on bilayer graphene (tGBG), as a function of twist angles and perpendicular electric fields in search of optimum conditions for achieving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Youngju Park , Bheema Lingam Chittari , Jeil Jung

The interfacial coupling between electrons and magnons in adjacent layers can mediate an attractive electron-electron interaction and induce superconductivity. We consider magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene sandwiched between two…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-20 Bjørnulf Brekke , Asle Sudbø , Arne Brataas

We study the effect of electron-acoustic phonon interactions in twisted bilayer graphene on resistivity in the high-temperature transport and superconductivity in the low-temperature phase diagram. We theoretically show that twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Fengcheng Wu , Euyheon Hwang , Sankar Das Sarma

The flat bands of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) host strongly-correlated electronic phases such as correlated insulators, superconductors and a strange-metal state. The latter state, believed to be key for understanding the…

We compute the phase diagram of twisted bilayer graphene near the magic angle where the occurrence of flat bands enhances the effects of electron-electron interactions and thus unleashes strongly-correlated phenomena. Most importantly, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-26 Dante M. Kennes , Johannes Lischner , Christoph Karrasch

A number of moir\'e graphene systems have nearly flat topological bands where electron motion is strongly correlated. Though microscopically these systems are only quasiperiodic, they can typically be treated as translation invariant to an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Dan Mao , T. Senthil

In the vicinity of the magic angle in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), the two low-energy van Hove singularities (VHSs) become exceedingly narrow1-10 and many exotic correlated states, such as superconductivity, ferromagnetism, and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-25 Yu Zhang , Zhe Hou , Ya-Xin Zhao , Zi-Han Guo , Yi-Wen Liu , Si-Yu Li , Ya-Ning Ren , Qing-Feng Sun , Lin He

By tuning the angle between graphene layers to specific "magic angles" the lowest energy bands of twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) can be made flat. The flat nature of the bands favors the formation of collective ground states and, in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-12-09 Xiang Hu , Timo Hyart , Dmitry I. Pikulin , Enrico Rossi

An accurate description of the low-energy electronic bands in twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) is of great interest due to their relation to correlated electron phases, such as superconductivity and Mott-insulator behavior at half-filling.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-17 Daniel Bennett , Daniel T. Larson , Louis Sharma , Stephen Carr , Efthimios Kaxiras

Recent experimental and theoretical investigations demonstrate that twisted trilayer graphene (tTLG) is a highly tunable platform to study the correlated insulating states, ferromagnetism, and superconducting properties. Here we explore the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Zewen Wu , Xueheng Kuang , Zhen Zhan , Shengjun Yuan

A remarkable feature of the band structure of bilayer graphene at small twist angle is the appearance of isolated bands near neutrality, whose bandwidth can be reduced at certain magic angles (eg. $\theta\sim 1.05^\circ$). In this regime,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-30 Liujun Zou , Hoi Chun Po , Ashvin Vishwanath , T. Senthil

We argue that doped twisted bilayer graphene with magical twist angle can become superconducting. In our theoretical scenario, the superconductivity coexists with the spin-density-wave-like ordering. Numerical mean-field analysis…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-12 A. O. Sboychakov , A. V. Rozhkov , A. L. Rakhmanov

Magic angle twisted trilayer graphene (TTG) has recently emerged as a new platform to engineer strongly correlated flat bands. Here, we reveal the structural and electronic properties of TTG using low temperature scanning tunneling…

Strongly correlated and topological phases in moir\'e materials are exquisitely sensitive to lattice geometry at both atomic and superlattice length scales. Twist angle, pressure, and strain directly modify the lattice, and thus act as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Xuetao Ma , Zhaoyu Liu , Jiaqi Cai , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Xiaodong Xu , Jiun-Haw Chu , Matthew Yankowitz