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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

Inter-twisted bilayers of two-dimensional (2D) materials can host low-energy flat bands, which offer opportunity to investigate many intriguing physics associated with strong electron correlations. In the existing systems, ultra-flat bands…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 Shengdan Tao , Xuanlin Zhang , Jiaojiao Zhu , Pimo He , Shengyuan A. Yang , Yunhao Lu , Su-Huai Wei

We report the first observation of controlled, strain-induced square moire patterns in stacked graphene. By selectively displacing native wrinkles, we drive a reversible transition from the usual trigonal to square moire order. Scanning…

We study a family of globally smooth spatially varying two dimensional stacking textures in bilayer graphene. We find that the strain-minimizing stacking patterns connecting inequivalent ground states with local $AB$ and $BA$ interlayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-01 Xingting Gong , E. J. Mele

We explore the rotational degree of freedom between graphene layers via the simple prototype of the graphene twist bilayer, i.e., two layers rotated by some angle $\theta$. It is shown that, due to the weak interaction between graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-13 S. Shallcross , S. Sharma , E. Kandelaki , O. A. Pankratov

Graphene layers are known to stack in two stable configurations, namely ABA or ABC stacking, with drastically distinct electronic properties. Unlike the ABA stacking, little has been done to experimentally investigate the electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-31 Y. Henni , H. P. Ojeda Collado , K. Nogajewski , M. R. Molas , G. Usaj , C. A. Balseiro , M. Orlita , M. Potemski , C. Faugeras

Magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene (MATTG) has emerged as a novel moir\'e material that exhibits both strong electronic correlations and unconventional superconductivity. However, spectroscopic studies of its electronic properties are…

The discovery of superconductivity in twisted bilayer and twisted trilayer graphene has generated tremendous interest. The key feature of these systems is an interplay between interlayer coupling and a moir\'e superlattice that gives rise…

We consider the electronic structure of a slightly twisted graphene bilayer and show the coexistence of van Hove singularities (VHSs) and superlattice Dirac points in a continuum approximation. The graphene-on-graphene moir\'e pattern gives…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-19 Zhao-Dong Chu , Wen-Yu He , Lin He

We analyze the electronic structure of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) nanoribbons close to the magic angle. We describe a transition from an incomplete to a complete moir\'e structure. By considering zigzag and armchair edge terminations,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-14 Elias Andrade , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Francisco Guinea , Gerardo G. Naumis

We carry out a computational study on the geometric and electronic properties of multi-layers of silicene in different stacking configurations using a state-of-art abinitio density functional theory based calculations. In this work we…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-02-26 C. Kamal , Aparna Chakrabarti , Arup Banerjee , S. K. Deb

Twisted bilayer graphene has a rich phase diagram, including superconductivity. Recently, an unexpected discovery has been the observation of superconductivity in non-twisted graphene bilayers and trilayers. In this Perspective, we give an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-29 Pierre A. Pantaleon , Alejandro Jimeno-Pozo , Hector Sainz-Cruz , Vo Tien Phong , Tommaso Cea , Francisco Guinea

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

Stacking three monolayers of graphene with a twist generally produces two moir\'e patterns. A moir\'e of moir\'e structure then emerges at larger distance where the three layers periodically realign. We devise here an effective low-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-30 Yuncheng Mao , Daniele Guerci , Christophe Mora

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

Bilayer graphene (BLG) with a tunable bandgap appears interesting as an alternative to graphene for practical applications, thus its transport properties are being actively pursued. Using density functional theory and perturbation analysis,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-11 Changwon Park , Junga Ryou , Suklyun Hong , Bobby Sumpter , Gunn Kim , Mina Yoon

We demonstrate that single layer graphene exhibits the electronic structure of a bilayer when it is connected to two gated bilayers. The energy gap characteristic for gated bilayer is induced in the single layer and it persists for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 Wlodzimierz Jaskolski

The electronic structure of multilayer graphenes depends strongly on the number of layers as well as the stacking order. Here we explore the electronic transport of purely ABA-stacked trilayer graphenes in a dual-gated field-effect device…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-20 E. A. Henriksen , D. Nandi , J. P. Eisenstein

Motivated by the recent discoveries of superconductivity in bilayer and trilayer graphene, we theoretically investigate superconductivity and other interaction-driven phases in multilayer graphene stacks. To this end, we study the density…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-06 Areg Ghazaryan , Tobias Holder , Erez Berg , Maksym Serbyn

The occurrence of superconducting and insulating phases is well-established in twisted graphene bilayers, and they have also been reported in other arrangements of graphene layers. We investigate three such arrangements: untwisted AB…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-11 Pierre A. Pantaleon , Tommaso Cea , Rory Brown , Niels R. Walet , Francisco Guinea