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Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has recently become a thriving material platform realizing correlated electron phenomena taking place within its topological flat bands. Several numerical and analytical methods have been applied to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-17 Bin-Bin Chen , Yuan Da Liao , Ziyu Chen , Oskar Vafek , Jian Kang , Wei Li , Zi Yang Meng

Twisted double bilayer graphene (tDBG) comprises two Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene sheets with a twist between them. Gate voltages applied to top and back gates of a tDBG device tune both the flatness and topology of the electronic bands,…

We study the stability and electronic structure of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene on the hexagonal boron nitride (TBG/BN). Full relaxation has been performed for commensurate supercells of the heterostructures with different twist…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-20 Xianqing Lin , Kelu Su , Jun Ni

We use a lowest Landau level model to study the recent observation of an anomalous Hall effect in twisted bilayer graphene. This effective model is rooted in the occurrence of Chern bands which arise due to the coupling between the graphene…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-28 Nick Bultinck , Shubhayu Chatterjee , Michael P. Zaletel

New phases of matter can be stabilized by a combination of diverging electronic density of states, strong interactions, and spin-orbit coupling. Recent experiments in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) have uncovered a wealth of…

We study the atomic and electronic structures of the commensurate double moir\'{e} superlattices in fully relaxed twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) nearly aligned with the hexagonal boron nitride (BN). The single-particle effective Hamiltonian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-31 Xianqing Lin , Jun Ni

The emergence of alternating twist multilayer graphene (ATMG) as a generalization of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) raises the question - in what important ways do these systems differ? Here, we utilize ab-initio relaxation and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-24 Patrick J. Ledwith , Eslam Khalaf , Ziyan Zhu , Stephen Carr , Efthimios Kaxiras , Ashvin Vishwanath

We analyze the effects of the long-range Coulomb interaction on the distribution of Berry curvature among the bands near charge neutrality of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) closely aligned with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). Due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-04 Pierre A. Pantaleón , Vo Tien Phong , Gerardo G. Naumis , Francisco Guinea

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) with interlayer twist angles near the magic angle $\approx 1.08^{\circ}$ hosts flat bands and exhibits correlated states including Mott-like insulators, superconductivity and magnetism. Here we report combined…

The electronic properties of moir\'e heterostructures depend sensitively on the relative orientation between layers of the stack. For example, near-magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) commonly shows superconductivity, yet a TBG…

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) features strongly correlated and topological phases due to its flat bands emerging near the magic angle. However, the effects of the non-Hermiticity, arising from the coupling to the environment and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Juan Pablo Esparza , Vladimir Juricic

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), with rotational misalignment close to 1.1$^\circ$, features isolated flat electronic bands that host a rich phase diagram of correlated insulating, superconducting, ferromagnetic, and topological…

The unusual properties of superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) have sparked enormous research interest. However, despite the dedication of intensive experimental efforts and the proposal of several possible…

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) near the magic twist angle of $\sim1.1^{o}$ exhibits a rich phase diagram. However, the interplay between different phases and their dependence on twist angle is still elusive. Here, we explore the stability…

Recently, signatures of quantum anomalous Hall states with spontaneous ferromagnetism were observed in twisted bilayer graphenes (TBGs) near 3/4 filling [1, 2]. Importantly, it was demon-strated that an extremely small current can switch…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-06 Wen-Yu He , David Goldhaber-Gordon , K. T. Law

Despite much theoretical work, developing a comprehensive ab initio model for twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) has proven challenging due to the inherent trade-off between accurately describing the band structure and incorporating the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-25 Run Hou , Shouvik Sur , Lucas K. Wagner , Andriy H. Nevidomskyy

Song and Bernevig (SB) have recently proposed a topological heavy fermion description of the physics of magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG), involving the hybridization of flat band electrons with a relativistic conduction sea. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-29 Liam L. H. Lau , Piers Coleman

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) exhibits flat electronic bands at the so-called magic angle ($\sim 1.1^\circ$), leading to strong electron correlations and emergent quantum phases such as superconductivity and correlated insulating states.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Ayan Mondal , Priyanka Sinha , Bheema Lingam Chittari

Valley Hall effect has been observed in asymmetric single-layer and bilayer graphene systems. In single-layer graphene systems, asymmetry is introduced by aligning graphene with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) with a near-zero twist angle,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-16 Teppei Shintaku , Afsal Kareekunnan , Masashi Akabori , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Hiroshi Mizuta

2D materials based superlattices have emerged as a promising platform to modulate band structure and its symmetries. In particular, moir\'e periodicity in twisted graphene systems produces flat Chern bands. The recent observation of…