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The surprising insulating and superconducting states of narrow-band graphene twisted bilayers have been mostly discussed so far in terms of strong electron correlation, with little or no attention to phonons and electron-phonon effects. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-16 M. Angeli , E. Tosatti , M. Fabrizio

We construct an analytic continuum model to describe the electronic structure and the electron-phonon interaction in twisted bilayer graphenes with arbitrary lattice deformation. Starting from the tight-binding model, we derive the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Mikito Koshino , Nguyen N. T. Nam

A recursive method is developed to treat electrons coupled to phonons. It is applied to small systems with $E\otimes\beta$ Jahn-Teller coupling. Two cases are considered, a model with one electron and two orbitals on a single site (related…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Ziegler

Electron-phonon coupling in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene is an important but difficult topic. We propose a scheme to simplify and understand this problem. Weighted by the coupling strength with the low-energy heavy electrons ($f$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Hao Shi , Wangqian Miao , Xi Dai

We study the effect of spin-phonon coupling in small magnetic clusters, concentrating on a S=1/2 ring of 4 spins coupled antiferromagnetically. If the phonons are treated as classical variables, there is a critical value of the spin-phonon…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Elhajal , F. Mila

In this paper we investigate the electron-phonon coupling in bilayer graphene, as a paradigmatic case for multilayer graphenes where interlayer hoppings are relevant. Using a frozen-phonon approach within the context of Density Functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-09-04 E. Cappelluti , G. Profeta

Density functional perturbation theory is used to analyze electron-phonon interaction in bilayer graphene. The results show that phonon scattering in bilayer graphene bears more resemblance with bulk graphite than monolayer graphene. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-29 K. M. Borysenko , J. T. Mullen , X. Li , Y. G. Semenov , J. M. Zavada , M. Buongiorno Nardelli , K. W. Kim

Using the method developed in the companion paper, we construct the effective continuum theories for two different microscopic tight binding models of the twisted bilayer graphene at the twist angle of $1.05^\circ$, one Slater-Koster based…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-24 Jian Kang , Oskar Vafek

We explore quantum correlations, in particular, quantum entanglement, among vibrational phonon modes as well as between electronic and vibrational degrees of freedom in molecular systems, described by Jahn-Teller mechanism. Specifically, to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 Ali Pedram , Onur Pusuluk , Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu

Moir\'e phonons describe collective vibrations of a moir\'e superlattice produced by long-wavelength relative displacements of the constituent layers. Despite coming from the backfolding of the acoustic phonons of the individual layers,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Alejandro Ramos-Alonso , Hector Ochoa

We present a theory of phonon-mediated superconductivity in near magic angle twisted bilayer graphene. Using a microscopic model for phonon coupling to moir\'e band electrons, we find that phonons generate attractive interactions in both…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-12-19 Fengcheng Wu , A. H. MacDonald , Ivar Martin

We theoretically study the piezoelectric effects in moir\`e graphene systems. Since the strain couples to the electrons in the system as a pseudo vector potential, which has opposite signs for the $K$ and $K'$ valleys of graphene, its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Ran Peng , Jianpeng Liu

We develop a low-energy continuum model for phonons in twisted moir\'e bilayers, based on a configuration-space approach. In this approach, interatomic force constants are obtained from density functional theory (DFT) calculations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-12 Jonathan Z. Lu , Ziyan Zhu , Mattia Angeli , Daniel T. Larson , Efthimios Kaxiras

We report planar tunneling spectroscopy measurements on metal-WSe$_2$-twisted bilayer graphene heterostructures across a broad range of gate and bias voltages. The observed experimental features are attributed to phonon-assisted tunneling…

It is a matter of current debate whether the gate-tunable superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene is phonon-mediated or arises from electron-electron interactions. The recent observation of the strong coupling of electrons to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-20 Glenn Wagner , Yves H. Kwan , Nick Bultinck , Steven H. Simon , S. A. Parameswaran

We present a computational study of the phonon linewidths in twisted bilayer graphene arising from electron-phonon interactions and anharmonic effects. The electronic structure is calculated using distance-dependent transfer integrals based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Shinjan Mandal , Indrajit Maity , H. R. Krishnamurthy , Manish Jain

The Jahn-Teller model with $E\otimes\beta$ electron-phonon coupling and local (Hubbard-like) Coulomb interaction is considered to describe a lattice system with two orbitals per site at half filling. Starting from a state with one electron…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Ziegler

A simple, yet accurate solution of the electron-phonon coupling problem in C_{60} is presented. The basic idea behind it is to be found in the parametrization of the ground state electronic density of the system calculated making use of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 N. Breda , R. A. Broglia , G. Colo` , H. E. Roman , F. Alasia , G. Onida , V. Ponomarev , E. Vigezzi

The origin of superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene -- whether phonon-driven or electron-driven -- remains unresolved, in part due to the absence of a quantitative and efficient model for electron-phonon coupling (EPC). In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Ziyan Zhu , Thomas P. Devereaux

We investigate the effect of electron- $\mathrm{A}_{1g}$ phonon coupling on the gapless electronic band dispersion of the pristine graphene. The electron-phonon interaction is introduced through a Kekul\'{e}-type distortion giving rise to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-29 B. S. Kandemir , A. Mogulkoc
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