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We study trilayer graphene arranged in a staircase stacking configuration with equal consecutive twist angle. On top of the moir\'e cristalline pattern, a supermoir\'e long-wavelength modulation emerges that we treat adiabatically. For each…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-08 Daniele Guerci , Yuncheng Mao , Christophe Mora

The interplay between strong electron-electron interactions and band topology can lead to novel electronic states that spontaneously break symmetries. The discovery of flat bands in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) with…

We propose models of twisted multilayer graphene that exhibit exactly flat Bloch bands with arbitrary Chern numbers and ideal band geometries. The models are constructed by twisting two sheets of Bernal-stacked multiple graphene layers with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-19 Jie Wang , Zhao Liu

Using exact diagonalization, we study the projected Hamiltonian with Coulomb interaction in the 8 flat bands of first magic angle twisted bilayer graphene. Employing the U(4) (U(4)$\times$U(4)) symmetries in the nonchiral (chiral) flat band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-26 Fang Xie , Aditya Cowsik , Zhi-Da Song , Biao Lian , B. Andrei Bernevig , Nicolas Regnault

Monolayer graphene placed with a twist on top of AB-stacked bilayer graphene hosts topological flat bands in a wide range of twist angles. The dispersion of these bands and gaps between them can be efficiently controlled by a perpendicular…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-05 Louk Rademaker , Ivan Protopopov , Dmitry Abanin

Motivated by recent observation of the quantum spin Hall effect in monolayer germanene and twisted bilayer transition-metal-dichalcogenides (TMDs), we study the topological phases of moir\'e twisted bilayers with time-reversal symmetry and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Yi-Ming Wu , Daniel Shaffer , Zhengzhi Wu , Luiz H. Santos

We consider a family of twisted graphene multilayers consisting of $n$-untwisted chirally stacked layers, e.g., AB, ABC, etc, with a single twist on top of $m$-untwisted {chirally stacked} layers. Upon neglecting both trigonal warping terms…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-20 Patrick J. Ledwith , Ashvin Vishwanath , Eslam Khalaf

The interplay between band topology and magnetism can give rise to exotic states of matter. For example, magnetically doped topological insulators can realize a Chern insulator that exhibits quantized Hall resistance at zero magnetic field.…

We investigate the moir\'e band structures and possible even denominator fractional quantum Hall state in small angle twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$, using combined large-scale local basis density functional theory calculation and continuum model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-07 Cheng Xu , Ning Mao , Tiansheng Zeng , Yang Zhang

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) showing a transport effect with fractionally quantized Hall plateaus emerging under zero magnetic field, provide a radically new opportunity to engineer topological quantum electronics. By construction of…

Moir\'e superlattices formed by semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) provide a highly tunable platform for investigating strongly correlated and topological quantum phases. As a prototypical example, twisted bilayer MoTe2…

We study the electronic structure and band topology of fully relaxed twisted multi-layer graphene (TMLG). Isolated flat bands emerge in TMLG with the number of layers [$M+N$ with $M$ the layer number of the bottom few-layer graphene (FLG)]…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Xianqing Lin , Haotian Zhu , Jun Ni

At partial filling of a flat band, strong electronic interactions may favor gapped states harboring emergent topology with quantized Hall conductivity. Emergent topological states have been found in partially filled Landau levels and…

We study the appearance of topological Floquet flat bands in alternating-twist multilayer graphene, which has alternating relative twist angle $\pm\theta$ near the first magic angle. While the system hosts both flat bands and a steep Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 Yingyi Huang

We propose a tunable optical setup to engineer topologically nontrivial flat bands in twisted bilayer graphene under circularly polarized light. Using both analytical and numerical calculations, we demonstrate that nearly flat bands can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-18 Yantao Li , H. A. Fertig , Babak Seradjeh

The realization of fractional Chern insulators opens up the possibility of exploring fractionally charged excitations and anyonic statistics in the absence of a magnetic field. One of the central questions is whether lattice-based systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Zexu Li , Wenxuan Wang , Fajie Wang , Zaizhe Zhang , Qiu Yang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , X. C. Xie , Jie Wang , Kaihui Liu , Zhida Song , Xiaobo Lu

Tailoring electron transfer dynamics across solid-liquid interfaces is fundamental to the interconversion of electrical and chemical energy. Stacking atomically thin layers with a very small azimuthal misorientation to produce moir\'e…

We show that a superlattice potential can be employed to engineer topology in massive Dirac fermions in systems such as bilayer graphene, moir\'e graphene-boron nitride, and transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers and bilayers. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Nishchay Suri , Chong Wang , Benjamin M. Hunt , Di Xiao

Twisted bilayer graphene aligned with hexagonal boron nitride (TBG/hBN) hosts rich topological and correlated quantum phases, such as (fractional) Chern insulators, whose character is dictated by the topology of the moir\'{e} flat band.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-01 Huiwen Wang , Wei Jiang

Recent experimental discovery of fractional Chern insulator in moir\'e Chern band in twisted transition metal dichalocogenide homobilayers has sparked intensive interest in exploring the ways of engineering band topology and correlated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-22 Xiaoyang Shen , Chonghao Wang , Ruiping Guo , Zhiming Xu , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu