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Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) exhibits a wide range of intriguing physical properties, such as superconductivity, ferromagnetism, and superlubricity. Depending on the twist angle, periodic moir\'e superlattices form in twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Vahid Morovati , Zhiming Xue , Kenneth M. Liechti , Rui Huang

Twistronics, the study of moir\'e superlattices of twisted bilayer 2D materials creating nontrivial physical effects, has recently revolutionized diverse subjects from materials to optoelectronics, nanophotonics, and beyond. Here, breaking…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-11 Vasu Dev , Yijie Shen

Motivated by the rich topology and interesting quasi-band structure of twisted moire materials subjected to light, we study a non-twisted moire material under the influence of light. Our work is in part motivated by a desire to find an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Saud Alabdulal , Miftah Hadi Syahputra Anfa , Hocine Bahlouli , Michael Vogl

Strain is ubiquitous in solid-state materials, but despite its fundamental importance and technological relevance, leveraging externally applied strain to gain control over material properties is still in its infancy. In particular, strain…

Twisted van der Waals bilayers provide an ideal platform to study the electron correlation in solids. Of particular interest is the 30 degree twisted bilayer honeycomb lattice system, which possesses an incommensurate moire pattern and…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-02 Yu-Hao Shen , Wen-Yi Tong , He Hu , Jun-Ding Zheng , Chun-Gang Duan

We consider a modified graphene model under exchange couplings. Various quantum anomalous phases are known to emerge under uniform or staggered exchange couplings. We introduce the twist between the orientations of two sublattice exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-01 Jihyeon Park , Gun Sang Jeon

We introduce and analyze a model that sheds light on the interplay between correlated insulating states, superconductivity, and flavor-symmetry breaking in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene. Using a variational mean-field theory, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-14 Gal Shavit , Erez Berg , Ady Stern , Yuval Oreg

Higher-order topological insulators are newly proposed topological phases of matter, whose bulk topology manifests as localized modes at two- or higher-dimensional lower boundaries. In this work, we propose the twisted bilayer graphenes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 Moon Jip Park , Youngkuk Kim , Gil Young Cho , SungBin Lee

We study the effect of electron-acoustic phonon interactions in twisted bilayer graphene on resistivity in the high-temperature transport and superconductivity in the low-temperature phase diagram. We theoretically show that twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Fengcheng Wu , Euyheon Hwang , Sankar Das Sarma

Moir\'e related physics in twisted bilayer two-dimensional (2D) materials has attracted widespread interest in condensed matter physics. Simulation of moir\'e related physics in cold atom platform is expected to outperform the 2D materials…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-07-03 Jian-Hua Zeng , Qizhong Zhu , Liang He

Moir\'{e} superlattices in twisted bilayer graphene and transition-metal dichalcogenides have emerged as a powerful tool for engineering novel band structures and quantum phases of two-dimensional quantum materials. Here we investigate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-03-17 Xi-Wang Luo , Chuanwei Zhang

The discovery of interaction-driven insulating and superconducting phases in moir\'e van der Waals heterostructures has sparked considerable interest in understanding the novel correlated physics of these systems. While a significant number…

The rise of twistronics has revolutionized the field of condensed matter physics, and more specifically the future applications of two-dimensional materials. At small twist angles, the microscopic world becomes strongly correlated, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-20 D. Soriano

Since the discovery of superconductivity and correlated insulator at fractional electron fillings in the twisted bilayer graphene, most theoretical efforts have been focused on describing this system in terms of an effective extended…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-24 Xiao-Chuan Wu , Chao-Ming Jian , Cenke Xu

Strongly correlated and topological phases in moir\'e materials are exquisitely sensitive to lattice geometry at both atomic and superlattice length scales. Twist angle, pressure, and strain directly modify the lattice, and thus act as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Xuetao Ma , Zhaoyu Liu , Jiaqi Cai , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Xiaodong Xu , Jiun-Haw Chu , Matthew Yankowitz

Atomically thin layered materials are systems with zero limit bulk-to-surface ratio. Their physical properties are determined by two-dimensionality and strongly affected by interfacing with other systems. Therefore, they represent an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-16 Tomas Samuely , Martin Gmitra , Tristan Cren , Mateo Calandra , Peter Samuely

We consider the superconducting and Mott-insulating states for the twisted bilayer graphene, modeled as two narrow-band system of electrons with appreciable intraatomic Coulomb interactions. The interaction induces kinetic exchange which…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-29 Maciej Fidrysiak , Michał Zegrodnik , Józef Spałek

We theoretically investigated phonon dispersion in AA-stacked, AB-stacked and twisted bilayer graphene with various rotation angles. The calculations were performed using the Born-von-Karman model for the intra-layer atomic interactions and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-19 Alexandr I. Cocemasov , Denis L. Nika , Alexander A. Balandin

Recent research showed that the rotational degree of freedom in stacking 2D materials yields great changes in the electronic properties. Here we focus on an often overlooked question: are twisted geometries stable and what defines their…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-25 Andrea Silva , Victor E. P. Claerbout , Tomas Polcar , Denis Kramer , Paolo Nicolini

We report deterministic control over moir\'e superlattice interference pattern in twisted bilayer graphene by implementing designable device-level heterostrain with process-induced strain engineering, a widely used technique in industrial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-04 Tara Peña , Aditya Dey , Shoieb A. Chowdhury , Ahmad Azizimanesh , Wenhui Hou , Arfan Sewaket , Carla L. Watson , Hesam Askari , Stephen M. Wu