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Twisted graphene bilayers provide a versatile platform to engineer metamaterials with novel emergent properties by exploiting the resulting geometric moir\'{e} superlattice. Such superlattices are known to host bulk valley currents at tiny…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 T. M. R. Wolf , J. L. Lado , G. Blatter , O. Zilberberg

We introduce a minimum tight-binding model with only three parameters extracted from graphene and untwisted bilayer graphene. This model reproduces quantitatively the electronic structure of not only these two systems and bulk graphite near…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Xianqing Lin , David Tománek

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

In a groundbreaking experimental advance it was recently shown that by stacking two sheets of graphene atop of each other at a twist angle close to one of the so called "magic angles", an effective two-dimensional correlated system emerges.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-01 Lede Xian , Dante M. Kennes , Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean , Massimo Altarelli , Angel Rubio

Stacked graphene multilayers with a small relative twist angle between each of the layers have been found to host flat bands at a series of magic angles. We consider the effect that Dirac point asymmetry between the layers, and in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 Adam Eaton , Yantao Li , Herbert Fertig , Babak Seradjeh

This work investigates the electronic properties of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) through computational calculations, with the aim of understanding the emergence of flat bands and conditions favorable for superconductivity close to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Rajendra Paudel , Nabin Upadhya Dhakal , Nurapati Pantha

We theoretically study the piezoelectric effects in moir\`e graphene systems. Since the strain couples to the electrons in the system as a pseudo vector potential, which has opposite signs for the $K$ and $K'$ valleys of graphene, its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Ran Peng , Jianpeng Liu

Several numerical studies have shown that the electronic properties of twisted bilayers of graphene (TBLG) and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are tunable by strain engineering of the stacking layers. In particular, the flatness of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-24 Marwa Mannaï , Sonia Haddad

We propose helical trilayer graphene (HTG), a helical structure featuring identical rotation angles $\theta\approx 1.5^\circ$ between three consecutive layers of graphene, as a unique and experimentally accessible platform for realizing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-11 Trithep Devakul , Patrick J. Ledwith , Li-Qiao Xia , Aviram Uri , Sergio de la Barrera , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Liang Fu

At certain angles of rotation called `magic angles' twisted bilayer graphene features almost flat bands. The resulting strong correlations drive the system to novel phases which have been observed in experiments recently. A complete…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-01 Steven C. Carter , Hridis K. Pal , M. Kindermann

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

Motivated by recent Physical Review Letters of Wang-Liu and Ledwith-Vishwanath-Khalaf, we study Tarnopolsky-Kruchkov-Vishwanath chiral model of two sheets of $n$-layer Bernal stacked graphene twisted by a small angle using the framework…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-11-16 Mengxuan Yang

In this work, we study an interacting tight-binding model of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG), with a twist angle of $1.05^\circ$. We derive effective theories based on a mean-field normal state at charge neutrality, thereby…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-27 Miguel Sánchez Sánchez , José González , Tobias Stauber

We investigate the electronic structure of a twisted multilayer graphene system forming a moir\'e pattern. We consider small twist angles separating the graphene sheets and develop a low-energy theory to describe the coupling of Dirac Bloch…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Christophe Mora , Nicolas Regnault , B. Andrei Bernevig

ABC-stacked trilayer graphene (TLG) are predicted to exhibit novel many-body phenomena due to the existence of almost dispersionless flat-band structures near the charge neutrality point (CNP). Here, using high magnetic field scanning…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-17 Long-Jing Yin , Li-Juan Shi , Si-Yu Li , Yu Zhang , Zi-Han Guo , Lin He

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) near "magic angles" has emerged as a rich platform for strongly correlated states of two-dimensional Dirac semimetals. Here we show that twisted bilayers of thin-film magnetic topological insulators (MTI) with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Gaurav Chaudhary , Anton A. Burkov , Olle G. Heinonen

We show that Floquet engineering with circularly polarized light (CPL) can selectively split the valley degeneracy of a twisted multilayer graphene (TMG), and thus generate a controlled valley-polarized Floquet Chern flat band with tunable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Ming Lu , Jiang Zeng , Haiwen Liu , Jin-Hua Gao , X. C. Xie

The electronic properties of van der Waals (vdW) structures can be substantially modified by the moire superlattice potential, which strongly depends on the twist angle among the compounds. In twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), two low-energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-02 Ya-Ning Ren , Yu Zhang , Yi-Wen Liu , Lin He

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) has recently emerged as a versatile platform for studying a variety of exotic transport phenomena. Here, we present a theoretical study of near-field thermal radiation between suspended TBLG with a focus on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-21 Fuwei Yang , Bai Song

We present a comprehensive first-principles study of twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) for a wide range of twist angles, with a focus on structural and electronic properties. By employing density functional theory (DFT) with an optimized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Albert Zhu , Daniel Bennett , Daniel T. Larson , Mohammed M. Al Ezzi , Efstratios Manousakis , Efthimios Kaxiras