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We study the effect of twisting on bilayer graphene. The effect of lattice relaxation is included; we look at the electronic structure, piezo-electric charges and spontaneous polarisation. We show that the electronic structure without…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Niels R. Walet , Francisco Guinea

We studied the real space structure of states in twisted bilayer graphene at the `magic angle' $\theta = 1.08^\circ$. The flat bands close to charge neutrality are composed of a mix of `ring' and `center' orbitals around the AA stacking…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-02 Louk Rademaker , Paula Mellado

Control of the interlayer twist angle in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures enables one to engineer a quasiperiodic moir\'e superlattice of tunable length scale. In twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), the simple moir\'e…

We present a tight-binding investigation of strained bilayer graphene within linear elasticity theory, focusing on the different environments experienced by the A and B carbon atoms of the different sublattices. We find that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-08-17 B. Verberck , B. Partoens , F. M. Peeters , B. Trauzettel

In graphene, charged defects break the electron-hole symmetry and can even give rise to exotic collapse states when the defect charge exceeds a critical value which is proportional to the Fermi velocity. In this work, we investigate the…

Close to a magical angle, twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) systems exhibit isolated flat electronic bands and, accordingly, strong electron localization. TBLGs have hence been ideal platforms to explore superconductivity, correlated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-28 V. Hung Nguyen , D. Paszko , M. Lamparski , B. Van Troeye , V. Meunier , J. -C. Charlier

While regular flat bands are good for enhancing the density of states and hence the gap, they are detrimental to the superfluid weight. We show that the predicted nontrivial topology of the two lowest flat bands of twisted bilayer graphene…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-04-29 Fang Xie , Zhida Song , Biao Lian , B. Andrei Bernevig

At large commensurate angles, twisted bilayer graphene which holds even parity under sublattice exchange exhibits a tiny gap. Here, we point out a way to tune this tiny gap into a large gap. We start from comprehensive understanding of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-22 Xiu-Cai Jiang , Yi-Yuan Zhao , Yu-Zhong Zhang

Bernal bilayer graphene exhibits a band gap that is tunable through the infrared with an electric field. We show that sublattice odd commensurate twisted bilayer graphene (C-TBG) exhibits a band gap that is tunable through the terahertz…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Spenser Talkington , Eugene J. Mele

Twisted bilayer graphene provides a new two-dimensional platform for studying electron interaction phenomena and flat band properties such as correlated insulator transition, superconductivity and ferromagnetism at certain magic angles.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-10 Liheng An , Xiangbin Cai , Meizhen Huang , Zefei Wu , Jiangxiazi Lin , Zhehan Ying , Ziqing Ye , Xuemeng Feng , Ning Wang

We study conductance across a twisted bilayer graphene coupled to single-layer graphene leads in two setups: a flake of graphene on top of an infinite graphene ribbon and two overlapping semi-infinite graphene ribbons. We find conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-30 Hadi Z. Olyaei , Bruno Amorim , Pedro Ribeiro , Eduardo V. Castro

Charge-neutral conducting systems represent a class of materials with unusual properties governed by electron-hole (e-h) interactions. Depending on the quasiparticles' statistics, band structure, and device geometry these semimetallic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-23 D. A. Bandurin , A. Principi , I. Y. Phinney , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , P. Jarillo-Herrero

In recent experiments, superconductivity and correlated insulating states were observed in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) with small magic angles, which highlights the importance of the flat bands near Fermi energy. However, the moir\'e…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-11 Jing-Yang You , Bo Gu , Gang Su

The role of twist angle ($\theta_t$) in tailoring the physical properties of heterostructures is emerging as a new paradigm in two-dimensional materials. The influence of flat electronic bands near the magic angle ($\sim$1.1$^{\circ}$) on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Darshit Solanki , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , A. K. Sood , Anindya Das

We present a combined experimental and theoretical study of twisted double bilayer graphene with twist angles between 1{\deg} and 1.35{\deg}. Consistent with moir\'e band structure calculations, we observe insulators at integer moir\'e band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-25 G. William Burg , Jihang Zhu , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Allan H. MacDonald , Emanuel Tutuc

The edges of graphene-based systems possess unusual electronic properties, originating from the non-trivial topological structure associated to the pseudo-spinorial character of the electron wave-functions. These properties, which have no…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-24 Jian Li , Ivar Martin , Markus Buttiker , Alberto F. Morpurgo

Superconductivity with transition temperature $T_c=1.7$ K has been reported in bilayer graphene [1,2]. The main factors, which may shed light on the mechanism of the formation of this superconductivity, are the following. Superconductivity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-06-22 G. E. Volovik

We introduce a complete physical model for the single-particle electronic structure of twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG), which incorporates the crucial role of lattice relaxation. Our model, based on $k \cdot p$ perturbation theory, combines…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Stephen Carr , Shiang Fang , Ziyan Zhu , Efthimios Kaxiras

We report an experimental study of carrier density (n), displacement field (D) and twist angle ({\theta}) dependence of temperature (T)-linear resistivity in twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG). For a large twist angle…

Twisted Bilayer Graphene at the magic twist angle features flat energy bands, which lead to superconductivity and strong correlation physics. These unique properties are typically limited to a narrow range of twist angles around the magic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-20 Or Katz , Gil Refael , Netanel H. Lindner