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Recent transport studies have demonstrated the great potential of twisted monolayer-bilayer graphene (tMBG) as a new platform to host moir\'e flat bands with a higher tunability than twisted bilayer graphene (tBG). However, a direct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-10 Ling-Hui Tong , Qingjun Tong , Li-Zhen Yang , Yue-Ying Zhou , Qilong Wu , Yuan Tian , Li Zhang , Lijie Zhang , Zhihui Qin , Long-Jing Yin

Inter-twisted bilayers of two-dimensional (2D) materials can host low-energy flat bands, which offer opportunity to investigate many intriguing physics associated with strong electron correlations. In the existing systems, ultra-flat bands…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 Shengdan Tao , Xuanlin Zhang , Jiaojiao Zhu , Pimo He , Shengyuan A. Yang , Yunhao Lu , Su-Huai Wei

Floquet moir\'e materials possess optically-induced flat-electron bands with steady-states sensitive to drive parameters. Within this regime, we show that strong interaction screening and phonon bath coupling can overcome enhanced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Christopher Yang , Iliya Esin , Cyprian Lewandowski , Gil Refael

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

We study the electronic structure and correlated phases of twisted bilayers of platinum diselenide using large-scale ab initio simulations combined with the functional renormalization group. PtSe$_2$ is a group-X transition metal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-27 Lennart Klebl , Qiaoling Xu , Ammon Fischer , Lede Xian , Martin Claassen , Angel Rubio , Dante M. Kennes

Twisted bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors have enabled the discovery of superconductivity, ferromagnetism, correlated insulators and a series of new topological phases of matter. However, the connection between…

Small-twist-angle bilayer graphene supports strongly correlated insulating states and superconductivity. Twisted few-layer graphene systems are likely to open up new directions for strong correlation physics in moir\'e superlattices. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-30 Xiao Li , Fengcheng Wu , Allan H. MacDonald

Moir\'e superlattices in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures provide 20 an efficient way to engineer electron band properties. The recent discovery of exotic quantum phases and their interplay in twisted bilayer…

We investigate the correlated electrons in the magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene by using the slave-rotor mean-field theory. Owing to the extended figure of Wannier orbitals, we study the two-orbital cluster Hubbard model with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-01 Shin-Ming Huang , Yi-Ping Huang , Ting-Kuo Lee

Twisted bilayer graphene with tiny rotation angles have drawn significant attention due to the observation of the unconventional superconducting and correlated insulating behaviors. In this paper, we employ a full tight-binding model to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Xueheng Kuang , Zhen Zhan , Shengjun Yuan

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

Twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ (tMoTe$_2$) has emerged as a robust platform for exploring correlated topological phases, notably supporting fractional Chern insulator (FCI) states at zero magnetic field across a wide range of twist angles. The…

Twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides have emerged as important model systems for the investigation of correlated electron physics because their interaction strength, carrier concentration, band structure, and inversion symmetry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-01 Jiawei Zang , Jie Wang , Jennifer Cano , Andrew J. Millis

Ultraflatbands that have been theoretically and experimentally detected in a bunch of van der Waals stacked materials showing some peculiar properties, for instance, highly localized electronic states and enhanced electron-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Zhen Zhan , Yipei Zhang , Pengfei Lv , Hongxia Zhong , Guodong Yu , Francisco Guinea , Jose Angel Silva-Guillen , Shengjun Yuan

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…

Minimally twisted bilayer graphene in the presence of an interlayer bias develops a triangular network of valley chiral modes that propagate along the $AB/BA$ interfaces and scatter at the $AA$ regions. The low energy physics of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-07 P. Wittig , F. Dominguez , C. De Beule , P. Recher

The electronic bands of twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) with a large-period moir\'e superlattice fracture to form narrow Bloch minibands that are spectrally isolated by forbidden energy gaps from remote dispersive bands. When these gaps are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Vo Tien Phong , E. J. Mele

The large lattice constant of Moire superlattice formed in twisted bilayer graphene for small twist enables observing the Landau levels splitting into Hofstadter butterflies in energy spectra for moderate magnetic field. This is expected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-22 Tomasz Chwiej

A remarkable recent experiment has observed Mott insulator and proximate superconductor phases in twisted bilayer graphene when electrons partly fill a nearly flat mini-band that arises a `magic' twist angle. However, the nature of the Mott…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-03 Hoi Chun Po , Liujun Zou , Ashvin Vishwanath , T. Senthil

We investigate the existence of higher order topological localized modes in moir\'{e} lattices of bilayer elastic plates. Each plate has a hexagonal array of discrete resonators and one of the plates is rotated an angle ($21.78^\circ$)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-03 Tamanna Akter Jui , Raj Kumar Pal