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Motivated by the recent experimental realization of twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG) samples we study, both analytically and numerically, the effects of circularly polarized light propagating in free space and confined into a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Martin Rodriguez-Vega , Michael Vogl , Gregory A. Fiete

We study the electronic band structure and the topological property of the twisted double bilayer graphene, or a pair of AB-stacked bilayer graphenes rotationally stacked on top of each other. We consider two different arrangements, AB-AB…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-10 Mikito Koshino

In a groundbreaking experimental advance it was recently shown that by stacking two sheets of graphene atop of each other at a twist angle close to one of the so called "magic angles", an effective two-dimensional correlated system emerges.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-01 Lede Xian , Dante M. Kennes , Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean , Massimo Altarelli , Angel Rubio

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

We present a multi-scale density functional theory (DFT) informed molecular dynamics and tight-binding (TB) approach to capture the interdependent atomic and electronic structures of twisted bilayer graphene. We calibrate the flat band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-17 Nicolas Leconte , Srivani Javvaji , Jiaqi An , Appalakondaiah Samudrala , Jeil Jung

We study the electronic properties of a twisted trilayer graphene, where two of the layers have Bernal stacking and the third one has a relative rotation with respect to the AB-stacked layers. Near the Dirac point, the AB-twisted trilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 E. Suárez Morell , M. Pacheco , L. Chico , L. Brey

We present a theoretical study of the local optical conductivity, plasmon spectra, and thermoelectric properties of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) at different filling factors and twist angles $\theta$. Our calculations are based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-04 Pietro Novelli , Iacopo Torre , Frank H. L. Koppens , Fabio Taddei , Marco Polini

Crystal fields occur due to a potential difference between chemically different atomic species. In Van-der-Waals heterostructures such fields are naturally present perpendicular to the planes. It has been realized recently that twisted…

We report on a double moir\'e system consisting of four graphene layers, where the top and bottom pairs form small-twist-angle bilayer graphene, and the middle interface has a large rotational mismatch. This system shows clear signatures of…

Several numerical studies have shown that the electronic properties of twisted bilayers of graphene (TBLG) and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are tunable by strain engineering of the stacking layers. In particular, the flatness of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-24 Marwa Mannaï , Sonia Haddad

Twisted 2D layered materials have garnered a lot of attention recently as a class of 2D materials whose interlayer interactions and electronic properties are dictated by the relative rotation / twist angle between the adjacent layers. In…

In the vicinity of the magic angle in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), the two low-energy van Hove singularities (VHSs) become exceedingly narrow1-10 and many exotic correlated states, such as superconductivity, ferromagnetism, and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-25 Yu Zhang , Zhe Hou , Ya-Xin Zhao , Zi-Han Guo , Yi-Wen Liu , Si-Yu Li , Ya-Ning Ren , Qing-Feng Sun , Lin He

Moir\'e systems featuring flat electronic bands exhibit a vast landscape of emergent exotic quantum states, making them one of the resourceful platforms in condensed matter physics in recent times. Tuning these systems via twist angle and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Jin Jiang , Qixuan Gao , Zekang Zhou , Cheng Shen , Mario Di Luca , Emily Hajigeorgiou , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Mitali Banerjee

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) can host the moir\'{e} energy flat bands with two-fold degeneracy serving as a fruitful playground for strong correlations and topological phases. However, the number of degeneracy is not limited to two.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-17 Congcong Le , Qiang Zhang , Cui Fan , Xianxin Wu , Ching-Kai Chiu

Twisted bilayer graphene exhibits isolated, relatively flat electronic bands near charge neutrality when the interlayer rotation is tuned to specific magic angles. These small misalignments, typically below 1.1{\deg}, result in long-period…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Antonio Palamara , Michele Pisarra , Antonello Sindona

We propose that the electronic structure of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) can be understood as Dirac fermions coupled with opposite pseudo magnetic fields generated by the moir\'e pattern. The two low-energy flat bands from each monolayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-24 Jianpeng Liu , Junwei Liu , Xi Dai

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) represents a highly tunable, strongly correlated electron system owed to its unique flat electronic bands. However, understanding the single-particle band structure alone has been challenging due to complex…

In the present work, we consider the excitonic effects in the twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) within the rotated bilayer Hubbard model. Both, intralayer and interlayer Coulomb interactions have been considered and the half-filling condition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 V. Apinyan , T. K. Kopeć

Staking layered materials revealed to be a very powerful method to tailor their electronic properties. It has indeed been theoretically and experimentally shown that twisted bilayers of graphene (tBLG) with a rotation angle $\theta$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Omid Faizy Namarvar , Ahmed Missaoui , Laurence Magaud , Didier Mayou , Guy Trambly de Laissardière

We extensively investigate the electronic and transport properties of a twisted bilayer graphene when subjected to both an external perpendicular electric field and a magnetic field. Using a basic tight-binding model, we show the flat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 Priyanka Sinha , Ayan Mondal , Simão Meneses João , Bheema Lingam Chittari