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The recent constructions of flat moir\'e minibands in specifically twisted multilayer graphene and twisted transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have facilitated the observation of strong correlations with a convenient tunability. These…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-05 Jihang Zhu , Dawei Zhai , Cong Xiao , Wang Yao

The electronic properties of heterostructures of atomically-thin van der Waals (vdW) crystals can be modified substantially by Moir\'e superlattice potentials arising from an interlayer twist between crystals. Moir\'e-tuning of the band…

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

The effects of the long range electrostatic interaction in twisted bilayer graphene are described using the Hartree-Fock approximation. The results show a significant dependence of the band widths and shapes on electron filling, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-29 Tommaso Cea , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Niels R. Walet , Francisco Guinea

The discovery of superconducting and insulating states in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) has ignited considerable interest in understanding the nature of electronic interactions in this chemically pristine material system. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-02 Yonglong Xie , Biao Lian , Berthold Jäck , Xiaomeng Liu , Cheng-Li Chiu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , B. Andrei Bernevig , Ali Yazdani

30$^{\circ}$ twisted bilayer graphene demonstrates the quasicrystalline electronic states with 12-fold symmetry. These states are however far away from the Fermi level, which makes conventional Dirac fermion behavior dominating the low…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-13 Guodong Yu , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Shengjun Yuan

Twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) has recently emerged as a new platform for studying electron correlations, the strength of which can be controlled via the twist angle. Here, we study the effect of internal screening on electron-electron…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-18 Zachary A. H. Goodwin , Fabiano Corsetti , Arash A. Mostofi , Johannes Lischner

In this review, we present recent works on materials whose common point is the presence of electronic bands of very low dispersion, called "flat bands", which are due to specific atomic order effects without electron interactions. These…

Strong correlations occur in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) when the octet of flat moir\'e minibands centered on charge neutrality (CN) is partially occupied. The octet consists of a single valence band and a single conduction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-18 Jihang Zhu , Iacopo Torre , Marco Polini , Allan H. MacDonald

The salient property of the electronic band structure of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), at the so-called magic angle (MA), is the emergence of flat bands around the charge neutrality point. These bands are associated with the observed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-04 Sonia Haddad , Takeo Kato , Jihang Zhu , Lassaad Mandhour

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) hosts a rich landscape of electronic phases arising from the interplay between strong electron-electron interactions and nontrivial band topology. While the flat bands near zero energy are central to many…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Leonardo A. Navarro-Labastida , Pierre A. Pantaleon , Francisco Guinea , Gerardo G. Naumis

A number of moir\'e graphene systems have nearly flat topological bands where electron motion is strongly correlated. Though microscopically these systems are only quasiperiodic, they can typically be treated as translation invariant to an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Dan Mao , T. Senthil

Recent research on twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) uncovered that its twist-angle-dependent electronic structure leads to a host of unique properties, such as superconductivity, correlated insulating states, and magnetism. The flat bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-29 Adithya Kommini , Zlatan Aksamija

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) has taken the spotlight in the condensed matter community since the discovery of correlated phases at the so-called magic angle. Interestingly, the role of a substrate on the electronic properties of TBG has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Min Long , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Zhen Zhan , Francisco Guinea , Jose Ángel Silva-Guillén , Shengjun Yuan

A universal set of third--nearest neighbour tight--binding (TB) parameters is presented for calculation of the quasiparticle (QP) dispersion of $N$ stacked $sp^2$ graphene layers ($N=1... \infty$) with $AB$ stacking sequence. The QP bands…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Grüneis , C. Attaccalite , L. Wirtz , H. Shiozawa R. Saito , T. Pichler , A. Rubio

In this work the effects of defects in the superconducting phases of the twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) are investigated. A will-accepted low energy effective model and a non-magnetic impurity potential to mimic defects are employed.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-09-08 Hui Yang , Zhi-Qiang Gao , Fa Wang

Moir\'e structures formed by twisting three layers of graphene with two independent twist angles present an ideal platform for studying correlated quantum phenomena, as an infinite set of angle pairs is predicted to exhibit flat bands.…

An accurate description of the low-energy electronic bands in twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) is of great interest due to their relation to correlated electron phases, such as superconductivity and Mott-insulator behavior at half-filling.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-17 Daniel Bennett , Daniel T. Larson , Louis Sharma , Stephen Carr , Efthimios Kaxiras

Two-dimensional atomic crystals can radically change their properties in response to external influences such as substrate orientation or strain, resulting in essentially new materials in terms of the electronic structure. A striking…

Twisted bilayer graphene with a twist angle of around 1.1{\deg} features a pair of isolated flat electronic bands and forms a strongly correlated electronic platform. Here, we use scanning tunneling microscopy to probe local properties of…