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We report on a double moir\'e system consisting of four graphene layers, where the top and bottom pairs form small-twist-angle bilayer graphene, and the middle interface has a large rotational mismatch. This system shows clear signatures of…

In disordered lattices, itinerant electrons typically undergo Anderson localization due to random phase interference, which suppresses their motion. By contrast, in flat-band systems where electrons are intrinsically localized owing to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Zhe Hou , Hailong Li , Qing Yan , Yu-Hang Li , Hua Jiang

In moir\'e crystals formed by stacking van der Waals (vdW) materials, surprisingly diverse correlated electronic phases and optical properties can be realized by a subtle change in the twist angle. Here, we discover that phonon spectra are…

We generalize the continuum model for Moir\'e structures made from twisted graphene layers, in order to include lattice relaxation and the formation of channels at very small (marginal) twist angles. We show that a precise description of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-19 Niels R. Walet , Francisco Guinea

We reveal by first-principles calculations that the interlayer binding in a twisted MoS2/MoTe2 heterobilayer decreases with increasing twist angle, due to the increase of the interlayer overlapping degree, a geometric quantity describing…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-07 W. T. Geng , V. Wang , J. B. Lin , T. Ohno , J. Nara

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

We present measurements of weak localization on hexagonal boron nitride encapsulated bilayer MoS$_2$. From the analysis we obtain information regarding the phase-coherence and the spin diffusion of the electrons. We find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Nikos Papadopoulos , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Herre S. J. van der Zant , Gary A. Steele

Low-energy moir\'e flat bands in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (tBG) have demonstrated incredible potentials to exhibit rich exotic quantum phenomena. Theoretically, the moir\'e flat bands of tBG are based on the extended structures,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-23 Long-Jing Yin , Ling-Hui Tong , Yue-Ying Zhou , Yang Zhang , Yuan Tian , Li Zhang , Lijie Zhang , Zhihui Qin

It is widely known that the twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) shows flat bands at magic angles, which can be well described by the effective continuum model derived by Bistritzer and MacDonald (BM). We propose in this paper a similar twisted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-22 Y. Soeda , K. Asaga , T. Fukui

Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) is a layered semiconductor which has become very important recently as an emerging electronic device material. Being an intrinsic semiconductor the two-dimensional MoS2 has major advantages as the channel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 Ferdows Zahid , Lei Liu , Yu Zhu , Jian Wang , Hong Guo

We investigate the bandwidth compression due to out of plane pressure of the moire flatbands near charge neutrality in twisted bilayer graphene for a continuous range of small rotation angles of up to $\sim2.5^{\circ}$. The flatband…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Bheema Lingam Chittari , Nicolas Leconte , Srivani Javvaji , Jeil Jung

Using a self-consistent Hartree-Fock theory, we show that the recently observed ferromagnetism in twisted bilayer WSe$_2$ [Nat. Commun. 16, 1959 (2025)] can be understood as a Stoner-like instability of interaction-renormalized moir\'e…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-18 Liangtao Peng , Christophe De Beule , Yiyang Lai , Du Li , Li Yang , E. J. Mele , Shaffique Adam

One-dimensional (1D) moir\'e superlattices provide a new route to engineering reduced-dimensional electronic states in van der Waals materials, yet their electronic structure and microscopic origin remain largely unexplored. Here, we…

Many of the important phases observed in twisted transition metal dichalcogenide homobilayers are driven by short-range interactions, which should be captured by a local tight binding description since no Wannier obstruction exists for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-02 Valentin Crépel , Andrew Millis

Twisted bilayers host many emergent phenomena in which the electronic excitations (quasiparticles - QPs) are closely intertwined with the local stacking order. By inspecting twisted hexagonal boron nitride (t-hBN), we show that non-local…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-01 Arsineh Apelian , Annabelle Canestraight , Songyuan Liu , Vojtech Vlcek

Twisted bilayer graphene provides a new two-dimensional platform for studying electron interaction phenomena and flat band properties such as correlated insulator transition, superconductivity and ferromagnetism at certain magic angles.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-10 Liheng An , Xiangbin Cai , Meizhen Huang , Zefei Wu , Jiangxiazi Lin , Zhehan Ying , Ziqing Ye , Xuemeng Feng , Ning Wang

Experimental advances in the fabrication and characterization of few-layer materials stacked at a relative twist of small angle have recently shown the emergence of flat energy bands. As a consequence electron interactions become relevant,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-02 D. M. Kennes , L. Xian , M. Claassen , A. Rubio

Inspired by recent discovery of correlated insulating states in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), we study a two-orbital Hubbard model on the honeycomb lattice with two electrons per unit cell. Based on the real-space density matrix…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-28 Zheng Zhu , D. N. Sheng , Liang Fu

Motivated by recent observation of the quantum spin Hall effect in monolayer germanene and twisted bilayer transition-metal-dichalcogenides (TMDs), we study the topological phases of moir\'e twisted bilayers with time-reversal symmetry and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Yi-Ming Wu , Daniel Shaffer , Zhengzhi Wu , Luiz H. Santos

We use self-consistent Hartree-Fock calculations performed in the full $\pi$-band Hilbert space to assess the nature of the recently discovered correlated insulator states in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG). We find that gaps…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-11 Ming Xie , Allan H. MacDonald