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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

Owing to the interaction between the layers, the twisted bilayer two-dimensional materials exhibit numerous unique optical and electronic properties different from the monolayer counterpart, and have attracted tremendous interests in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Yabin Ma , Tao Ouyang , Yuanping Chen , Yuee Xie

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

We theoretically study the effects of electron-electron interaction in twisted bilayer graphene in applied transverse dc electric field. When the twist angle is not very small, the electronic spectrum of the bilayer consists of four Dirac…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-04 A. O. Sboychakov , A. V. Rozhkov , A. L. Rakhmanov , Franco Nori

The crystal structure of a material creates a periodic potential that electrons move through giving rise to the electronic band structure of the material. When two-dimensional materials are stacked, the twist angle between the layers…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-07 Zhiming Zhang , Yimeng Wang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Keiji Ueno , Emanuel Tutuc , Brian J. LeRoy

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…

We use temperature-dependent resistivity in small-angle twisted double bilayer graphene to measure bandwidths and gaps of the bands. This electron-hole asymmetric system has one set of non-dispersing bands that splits into two flat bands…

Twisted bilayer graphene displays many fascinating properties that can be tuned by varying the relative angle (also called twist angle) between its monolayers. As a remarkable feature, both the electronic flat bands and the corresponding…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-06 V. Hung Nguyen , Trinh X. Hoang , J. -C. Charlier

Twisted graphene moire superlattice has been demonstrated as an exotic platform for investigating correlated states and nontrivial topology. Among the moire family, twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG) is a tunable flat band system…

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) is known for exhibiting highly correlated phases at magic angles due to the emergence of flat bands that enhance electron-electron interactions. In the TBG chiral model, electronic wave function properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-15 Leonardo A. Navarro-Labastida , Gerardo G. Naumis

In twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) devices, local strains frequently coexist and intertwine with the twist-angle-dependent moir\'e superlattice, significantly influencing the electronic properties of TBG, yet their combined effects remain…

Twisted double bilayer graphene has recently emerged as an interesting moir\'e material that exhibits strong correlation phenomena that are tunable by an applied electric field. Here we study the atomic and electronic properties of three…

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

Diverse emergent correlated electron phenomena have been observed in twisted graphene layers due to electronic interactions with the moir\'e superlattice potential. Many electronic structure predictions have been reported exploring this new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-29 J. E. Nunn , A. McEllistrim , A. Weston , A. Garcia-Ruiz , M. D. Watson , M. Mucha-Kruczynski , C. Cacho , R. Gorbachev , V. I. Fal'ko , N. R. Wilson

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

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

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

The recent discovery of correlated insulator states and superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has paved the way to the experimental investigation of electronic correlations in tunable flat band systems realized in…

The bands of graphite are extremely sensitive to topological defects which modify the electronic structure. In this paper we found non-dispersive flat bands no farther than 10 meV of the Fermi energy in slightly twisted bilayer graphene as…

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