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We investigate bilayers of nanoporous graphene (NPG), laterally bonded carbon nanoribbons, and graphene. The electronic and transport properties are explored as a function of the interlayer twist angle using an atomistic tight-binding model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-12 Xabier Diaz de Cerio , Aleksander Bach Lorentzen , Mads Brandbyge , Aran Garcia-Lekue

The discovery of superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene has triggered a resurgence of interest in flat-band superconductivity. Here, we investigate the square-octagon lattice, which also exhibits two perfectly flat bands when…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-07-08 Lizardo H. C. M. Nunes , Cristiane Morais Smith

Twisted multilayer moir\'e materials are generically quasiperiodic on the moir\'e scale due to the interference of different misaligned moir\'e periodicities. Spatial inhomogeneities such as these can be detrimental to superconductivity;…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Xinghai Zhang , Ziyan Zhu , Justin H. Wilson , Matthew S. Foster

Recent experiments on magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene have discovered correlated insulating behavior and superconductivity at a fractional filling of an isolated narrow band. In this paper we show that magic-angle bilayer graphene…

In this paper we extend our earlier analysis of the novel Josephson effect in triplet superconductor--ferromagnet--triplet superconductor (TFT) junctions [B. Kastening \emph{et al.}, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf{96}}, 047009 (2006)]. In our more…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-01-26 P. M. R. Brydon , Boris Kastening , Dirk K. Morr , Dirk Manske

A transformation of the band structure in bilayer graphene (BLG) with relatively shifted layers has been studied in the framework of the tight-binding model. BLG is demonstrated to remain a zero-gap material in the whole range of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-07 V. G. Litovchenko , A. I. Kurchak , M. V. Strikha

A series of recent experiments have demonstrated robust superconductivity in magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene (TTG). In particular, a recent work by Cao et al. (arxiv:2103.12083) studies the behavior of the superconductor in an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-11-17 Ethan Lake , T. Senthil

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

A variety of correlated phases have recently emerged in select twisted van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures owing to their flat electronic dispersions. In particular, heterostructures of twisted double bilayer graphene (tDBG) manifest…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 Minhao He , Yuhao Li , Jiaqi Cai , Yang Liu , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , Xiaodong Xu , Matthew Yankowitz

Emergent quantum phases driven by electronic interactions can manifest in materials with narrowly dispersing, i.e. "flat", energy bands. Recently, flat bands have been realized in a variety of graphene-based heterostructures using the…

Designer 2D materials where the constituent layers are not aligned may result in band structures with dispersionless, "flat" bands. Twisted bilayer graphene has been found to show correlated phases as well as superconductivity related to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-02-03 P. Törmä , S. Peotta , B. A. Bernevig

The discovery of alternating superconducting and insulating ground-states in magic angle graphene has suggested an intriguing analogy with cuprate high-$T_c$ materials. Here we argue that the network states of small angle twisted bilayer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-02 E. J. König , Piers Coleman , A. M. Tsvelik

The superconducting (SC) state of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) shows exceptional properties, as it consists of an unprecedentedly small electron (hole) ensemble of only ~ 10 power 11 carriers per square centimeter, which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 G. Di Battista , K. C. Fong , A. Diez-Carlon , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , D. K. Efetov

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

We report a local minimum in thermal conductivity in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) at the angle of 1.08$^\circ$, which corresponds to the 'magic angle' in the transition of several other reported properties. Within the supercell of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Yajuan Cheng , Zheyong Fan , Tao Zhang , Masahiro Nomura , Sebastian Volz , Guimei Zhu , Baowen Li , Shiyun Xiong

We report on graphene-based Josephson junctions with contacts made from lead. The high transition temperature of this superconductor allows us to observe the supercurrent branch at temperatures up to $\sim 2$ K, at which point we can detect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-25 I. V. Borzenets , U. C. Coskun , S. J. Jones , G. Finkelstein

We study superconductivity of twisted bilayer graphene with local and non-local attractive interactions. We obtain the superfluid weight and Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition temperature for microscopic tight-binding and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Aleksi Julku , Teemu J. Peltonen , Long Liang , Tero T. Heikkilä , Päivi Törmä

Recent experiments show how a bilayer graphene twisted around a certain magic angle becomes superconducting as it is doped into a region with approximate flat bands. We investigate the mean-field $s$-wave superconducting state in such a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-12-19 T. J. Peltonen , R. Ojajärvi , T. T. Heikkilä

The unusual properties of superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) have sparked enormous research interest. However, despite the dedication of intensive experimental efforts and the proposal of several possible…

We study the symmetries of twisted trilayer graphene's band structure under various extrinsic perturbations, and analyze the role of long-range electron-electron interactions near the first magic angle. The electronic structure is modified…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Vo Tien Phong , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Tommaso Cea , Francisco Guinea