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Motivated by the recent observation of correlated insulator states and unconventional superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene, we study the dependence of electron correlations on the twist angle and reveal the existence of strong…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-18 Zachary A. H. Goodwin , Fabiano Corsetti , Arash A. Mostofi , Johannes Lischner

The electronic properties of van der Waals (vdW) structures can be substantially modified by the moire superlattice potential, which strongly depends on the twist angle among the compounds. In twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), two low-energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-02 Ya-Ning Ren , Yu Zhang , Yi-Wen Liu , Lin He

Motivated by recent experimental results we calculate from first-principles the lifetime of low-energy quasiparticles in bilayer graphene (BLG). We take into account the scattering rate arising from electron-electron interactions within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-11 Catalin D. Spataru , François Léonard

The electronic properties of junctions defined electrostatically on twisted bilayer graphene can be addressed theoretically using lattice models. Recent works have introduced minimal local orbital models to describe twisted bilayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 M. Alvarado , A. Levy Yeyati

Flat band electronic modes are responsible for superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) rotated at magic angles. From there other magic angles can be found for any multilayered twisted graphene systems. Eventually, this lead to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-15 Leonardo A. Navarro-Labastida , Gerardo G. Naumis

We determine the effect of quasiparticle interference on the spatial variations of the local density of states (LDOS) in graphite in the neighborhood of an isolated impurity. A number of characteristic behaviors of interference are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Cristina Bena , Steven A. Kivelson

Two monolayers of graphene twisted by a small `magic' angle exhibit nearly flat bands leading to correlated electronic states and superconductivity, whose precise nature including possible broken symmetries, remain under debate. Here we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-13 Jong Yeon Lee , Eslam Khalaf , Shang Liu , Xiaomeng Liu , Zeyu Hao , Philip Kim , Ashvin Vishwanath

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) has emerged as an important platform for studying correlated phenomena, including unconventional superconductivity, in two-dimensional systems. The complexity of the atomic-scale structures in TBLG has made…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-07 Stephen Carr , Shiang Fang , Hoi Chun Po , Ashvin Vishwanath , Efthimios Kaxiras

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) features strongly correlated and topological phases due to its flat bands emerging near the magic angle. However, the effects of the non-Hermiticity, arising from the coupling to the environment and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Juan Pablo Esparza , Vladimir Juricic

Magic angle twisted bilayer graphene has emerged as a powerful platform for studying strongly correlated electron physics, owing to its almost dispersionless low-energy bands and the ability to tune the band filling by electrostatic gating.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Nikhil Tilak , Xinyuan Lai , Shuang Wu , Zhenyuan Zhang , Mingyu Xu , Raquel de Almeida Ribeiro , Paul C Canfield , Eva Y. Andrei

Doping twisted bilayer graphene away from charge neutrality leads to an enormous buildup of charge inhomogeneities within each Moir\'{e} unit cell. Here we show, using unbiased real-space self-consistent Hartree calculations on a relaxed…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-13 Louk Rademaker , Dmitry A. Abanin , Paula Mellado

Evidence of flat-band magnetism and half-metallicity in compressed twisted bilayer graphene is provided with first-principles calculations. We show that dynamic band-structure engineering in twisted bilayer graphene is possible by…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-05 Alejandro Lopez-Bezanilla

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…

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) is notable as a highly tunable platform for investigating strongly correlated phenomena such as high-$T_c$ superconductivity and quantum spin liquids, due to easy control of doping level through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-04 Xiao Chen , Shuanglong Liu , James N Fry , Hai-Ping Cheng

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

Motivated by recent experiments probing the wavefunctions of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG), we perform large-scale first-principles calculations of tBLG with full atomic relaxation across a wide range of twist angles down to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Albert Zhu , Daniel Bennett , Daniel T. Larson , Mohammed M. Al Ezzi , Efstratios Manousakis , Efthimios Kaxiras

Magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) hosts narrow moir\'e bands with meV-scale energy splittings, making its correlated phases sensitive to both material parameters and modeling choices in low-energy downfolding. We develop an ab…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-12 Raehyun Kim , Woochang Kim , Kevin D. Stubbs , Steven G. Louie , Lin Lin

Flat electronic bands, characteristic of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), host a wealth of correlated phenomena. Early theoretical considerations suggested that, at the magic angle, the Dirac velocity vanishes and the entire…

The recent observed anomalous Hall effect in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) aligned to hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) and unconventional ferroelectricity in Bernal bilayer graphene sandwiched by hBN present a new platform to tune…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-01 Min Long , Zhen Zhan , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Jose Ángel Silva-Guillén , Francisco Guinea , Shengjun Yuan

Through extensive self-consistent Hartree-Fock calculations in a tight-binding model of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), we show that many-body effects lead to a considerable increase of the bandwidth of the flat bands and, concomitantly, to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Miguel Sánchez Sánchez , José González , Tobias Stauber