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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…

$\alpha$-graphyne is a two-dimensional sheet of $sp$-$sp^2$ hybridized carbon atoms in a honeycomb lattice. While the geometrical structure is similar to that of graphene, the hybridized triple bonds give rise to electronic structure that…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-04 Hyeondeok Shin , Jeongnim Kim , Hoonkyung Lee , Olle Heinonen , Anouar Benali , Yongkyung Kwon

Evidence of flat-band magnetism and half-metallicity in compressed twisted bilayer graphene is provided with first-principles calculations. We show that dynamic band-structure engineering in twisted bilayer graphene is possible by…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-05 Alejandro Lopez-Bezanilla

Bilayer graphene twisted at the angle of about 1.1{\deg} better known as magic angle, exhibits ultra-flat moir\'e superlattice bands that are a source of highly-tunable, exotic quantum phenomena. Such phenomena, like superconductivity,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-05 Giovanna Feraco , Wissem Boubaker , Petra Rudolf , Antonija Grubišić-Čabo

Two-dimensional layered materials offer the possibility to create artificial vertically stacked structures possessing an additional degree of freedom - $the$ $interlayer$ $twist$. We present a comprehensive optical study of artificially…

We have studied ferromagnetic metal/topological insulator bilayer system to understand magnetization dynamics of ferromagnetic metal (FM) in contact with a topological insulator (TI). At magnetic resonance condition, the precessing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Sayani Pal , Soumik Aon , Subhadip Manna , Sambhu G Nath , Kanav Sharma , Chiranjib Mitra

We study the magnon bands of twisted bilayer honeycomb quantum magnets using linear spin wave theory. Although the interlayer coupling can be ferromagnetic or antiferromagnetic, we keep the intralayer one ferromagnetic to avoid possible…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-11 Xingchuan Zhu , Huaiming Guo , Shiping Feng

Bilayer graphene nanoribbon with zigzag edge is investigated with the tight binding model. Two stacking structures, alpha and beta, are considered. The band splitting is seen in the alpha structure, while the splitting in the wave number…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-13 Kikuo Harigaya , Hiroshi Imamura

Twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) devices with ion gel gate dielectrics are studied using Raman spectroscopy in the twist angle regime where a resonantly enhanced G band can be observed. We observe prominent splitting and intensity quenching…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-18 Ting-Fung Chung , Rui He , Tai-Lung Wu , Yong P. Chen

It has recently been shown that quantum-confined states can appear in epitaxially grown van der Waals material heterobilayers without a rotational misalignment ($\theta=0^\circ$), associated with flat bands in the Brillouin zone of the…

Stacking order has strong influence on the coupling between the two layers of twisted bilayer graphene (BLG), which in turn determines its physical properties. Here, we report the investigation of the interlayer coupling of the epitaxially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-28 Bing Deng , Binbin Wang , Ning Li , Rongtan Li , Yani Wang , Jilin Tang , Qiang Fu , Zhen Tian , Peng Gao , Jiamin Xue , Hailin Peng

The ability to tune the energy gap in bilayer graphene makes it the perfect playground for the study of the effects of internal electric fields, such as the crystalline field, which are developed \Reb{when other layered materials are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-21 L. S. Farrar , G. Maffione , V. -H. Nguyen , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , J. -Ch. Charlier , D. Mailly , R. Ribeiro-Palau

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…

Moir\'{e} superlattices in twisted bilayer graphene and transition-metal dichalcogenides have emerged as a powerful tool for engineering novel band structures and quantum phases of two-dimensional quantum materials. Here we investigate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-03-17 Xi-Wang Luo , Chuanwei Zhang

Moir\'e phonons describe collective vibrations of a moir\'e superlattice produced by long-wavelength relative displacements of the constituent layers. Despite coming from the backfolding of the acoustic phonons of the individual layers,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Alejandro Ramos-Alonso , Hector Ochoa

The electronic properties of the twisted InSe bilayer are studied by large-scale density functional theory. Spectral Function Unfolding reveals that the electronic structure of the twisted system can be described in terms of a combination…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-28 Siow Mean Loh , Nicholas D. M. Hine

Materials with flat electronic bands often exhibit exotic quantum phenomena owing to strong correlations. Remarkably, an isolated low-energy flat band can be induced in bilayer graphene by simply rotating the layers to 1.1$^{\circ}$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Matthew Yankowitz , Shaowen Chen , Hryhoriy Polshyn , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , David Graf , Andrea F. Young , Cory R. Dean

Bulk black phosphorus (BP) consists of puckered layers of phosphorus atoms. Few-layer BP, obtained from bulk BP by exfoliation, is an emerging candidate as a channel material in post-silicon electronics. A deep understanding of its physical…

Our theoretical study unfolds the topological phase transitions (within bands of the Moir\'e super-lattice) in small angle twisted double bilayer graphene (tDBLG) under the influence of external gate voltage and intrinsic spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 Kamalesh Bera , Priyanka Mohan , Arijit Saha

Moir\'e superlattice-induced sub-bands in twisted van der Waals homo- and hetero-structures govern their optical and electrical properties, rendering additional degrees of freedom such as twist angle. Here, we demonstrate the moir\'e…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 Medha Dandu , Garima Gupta , Pushkar Dasika , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Kausik Majumdar