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We present atomistic calculations on structural and electronic properties of twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG) consisting of two sets of rotationally misaligned Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene. Obtained equilibrium atomic structures…

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Through extensive self-consistent Hartree-Fock calculations in a tight-binding model of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), we show that many-body effects lead to a considerable increase of the bandwidth of the flat bands and, concomitantly, to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Miguel Sánchez Sánchez , José González , Tobias Stauber

Electronic correlations in two-dimensional materials play a crucial role in stabilising emergent phases of matter. The realisation of correlation-driven phenomena in graphene has remained a longstanding goal, primarily due to the absence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Saisab Bhowmik , Arindam Ghosh , U. Chandni

A nanoelectronic device made of twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) is proposed to steer the direction of the current flow. The ballistic electron current, injected at one edge of the bottom layer, can be guided predominantly to one of the…

Twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) near the magic angle is a unique platform where the combination of topology and strong correlations gives rise to exotic electronic phases. These phases are gate-tunable and related to the presence of flat…

By tuning the angle between graphene layers to specific "magic angles" the lowest energy bands of twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) can be made flat. The flat nature of the bands favors the formation of collective ground states and, in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-12-09 Xiang Hu , Timo Hyart , Dmitry I. Pikulin , Enrico Rossi

Twisted bilayer graphene has recently attracted a lot of attention for its rich electronic properties and tunability. Here we show that for very small twist angles, $\alpha \ll 1^\circ$, the application of a perpendicular electric field is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-04 A. Ramires , J. L. Lado

The emergence of controlled, two-dimensional moir\'e materials has uncovered a new platform for investigating topological physics. Twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG) has been predicted to host a topologically non-trivial gapped phase…

Ferromagnetism and superconductivity typically compete with each other since the internal magnetic field generated in a magnet suppresses the formation of spin-singlet Cooper pairs in conventional superconductors. Only a handful of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-09 Xiaomeng Liu , Zeyu Hao , Eslam Khalaf , Jong Yeon Lee , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ashvin Vishwanath , Philip Kim

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 construct a minimal theory describing the optical activity of a thin sheet of a twisted material, the simplest example of which is twisted bilayer graphene. We introduce the notion of "twisted electrical conductivity", which parametrizes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-10 Dung Xuan Nguyen , Dam Thanh Son

A wide variety of two-dimensional electron systems (2DES) allow for independent control of the total and relative charge density of two-component fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states. In particular, a recent experiment on bilayer graphene…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-18 Maissam Barkeshli , Chetan Nayak , Zlatko Papić , Andrea Young , Michael Zaletel

The potential energy surface (PES) of interlayer interaction of twisted bilayer graphene with vacancies in one of the layers is investigated via density functional theory (DFT) calculations with van der Waals corrections. These calculations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-01 Alexander S. Minkin , Irina V. Lebedeva , Andrey M. Popov , Andrey A. Knizhnik

We study electronic properties of AA-stacked graphene bilayers. In the single-particle approximation such a system has one electron band and one hole band crossing the Fermi level. If the bilayer is undoped, the Fermi surfaces of these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-08-05 A. O. Sboychakov , A. V. Rozhkov , A. L. Rakhmanov , Franco Nori

Recent experiments have observed possible spin- and valley-polarized insulators and spin-triplet superconductivity in twisted double bilayer graphene, a moire structure consisting of a pair of Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene. Besides the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-12 Yi-Ting Hsu , Fengcheng Wu , S. Das Sarma

The dominance of Coulomb interactions over kinetic energy of electrons in narrow, non-trivial moir\'{e} bands of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) gives rise to a variety of correlated phases such as correlated insulators,…

We study the electronic structure of a double-twisted few layer graphite (DTFLG), which consists of three few layer graphite (FLG), i.e. ABA-stacked graphene multilayer, stacked with two twist angles. We consider two categories of DTFLG,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-02 Zhen Ma , Shuai Li , Ming Lu , Dong-Hui Xu , Jin-Hua Gao , X. C. Xie

Moir\'e superlattices created by the twisted stacking of two-dimensional crystalline monolayers can host electronic bands with flat energy dispersion in which interaction among electrons is strongly enhanced. These superlattices can also…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 Xiaomeng Liu , Cheng-Li Chiu , Jong Yeon Lee , Gelareh Farahi , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ashvin Vishwanath , Ali Yazdani

Small-twist-angle bilayer graphene supports strongly correlated insulating states and superconductivity. Twisted few-layer graphene systems are likely to open up new directions for strong correlation physics in moir\'e superlattices. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-30 Xiao Li , Fengcheng Wu , Allan H. MacDonald

Two-dimensional ferroelectrics can maintain vertical polarization up to room temperature, and are, therefore, promising for next-generation nonvolatile memories. Although natural two-dimensional ferroelectrics are few, moir\'{e}…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Renjun Du , Jingkuan Xiao , Di Zhang , Xiaofan Cai , Siqi Jiang , Fuzhuo Lian , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Lei Wang , Geliang Yu