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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…

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Helical trilayer graphene (hTG) exhibits a supermoir\'e pattern with large domains centered around stacking points ABA and BAB, where two well-separated low-energy bands appear with different total Chern numbers at each valley, forming a…

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Electrons in two-dimensional hexagonal materials have valley degree of freedom, which can be used to encode and process quantum information. The valley-selective excitations, governed by the circularly polarised light resonant with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-19 M. S. Mrudul , Álvaro Jiménez-Galán , Misha Ivanov , Gopal Dixit

The control of physical properties of solids with short laser pulses is an intriguing prospect of ultrafast materials science. Continuous-wave high-frequency laser driving with circular polarization was predicted to induce a light-matter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-15 M. A. Sentef , M. Claassen , A. F. Kemper , B. Moritz , T. Oka , J. K. Freericks , T. P. Devereaux

We present an experimental proposal to tune the effective lattice structure in twisted transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterobilayers with time-periodic Floquet drive. We show that elliptically polarized light with sub-terahertz…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-26 Rong-Chun Ge , Michael Kolodrubetz

We study theoretically the electron current across a monolayer graphene/hexagonal boron nitride/bilayer graphene tunnelling junction in an external magnetic field perpendicular to the layers. We show that change in effective tunnelling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-18 J. J . P. Thompson , D. J. Leech , M. Mucha-Kruczyński

We study the anomalous Hall effect, magneto-optical properties, and nonlinear optical properties of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) aligned with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) substrate as well as twisted double bilayer graphene systems. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Jianpeng Liu , Xi Dai

Twisted van der Waals heterostructures with flat electronic bands have recently emerged as a platform for realizing correlated and topological states with an extraordinary degree of control and tunability. In graphene-based moir\'e…

We consider the most energetically favorable symmetry-allowed spin-singlet and spin-triplet superconducting pairing symmetries in twisted bilayer graphene at the magic angle, whose normal state physics is described by a six-band effective…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-07-27 Emile Pangburn , Miguel Alvarado , Oladunjoye A. Awoga , Catherine Pépin , Cristina Bena

Recent experiments on bilayer graphene twisted near the magic angle have observed spontaneous integer quantum Hall states in the presence of an aligned hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) substrate. These states arise from valley ferromagnetism,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-18 Patrick J. Ledwith , Grigory Tarnopolsky , Eslam Khalaf , Ashvin Vishwanath

The interplay between strong electron-electron interactions and band topology can lead to novel electronic states that spontaneously break symmetries. The discovery of flat bands in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) with…

At a certain "magic" relative twist angle of two graphene sheets it remains a challenge to obtain a detailed description of the proliferation of correlated topological electronic phases and their filling-dependence. We perform a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-10 Clara N. Breiø , Brian M. Andersen

We study the effect of illumination of bicircularly polarized light (BCL) on topological semimetals, namely multifold fermion and line-node semimetals. We demonstrate, by means of both low-energy and lattice models, that the band-structures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Maitri Ganguli , Aneek Jana , Awadhesh Narayan

The effective theory for bilayer graphene (BLG), subject to parallel/in-plane magnetic fields, is derived. With a sizable magnetic field the trigonal warping becomes irrelevant, and one ends up with two Dirac points in the vicinity of each…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-08 Bitan Roy , Kun Yang

Berry curvature is analogous to magnetic field but in momentum space and is commonly present in materials with non-trivial quantum geometry. It endows Bloch electrons with transverse anomalous velocities to produce Hall-like currents even…

Following the discovery of graphene, keen attentions have been paid in comprehending the noticeably superior electromagnetic, optical and absorptive properties of few layer graphene (FLG) with rotational-stacking-faults. With achieving…

The study of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) is a hot topic in condensed matter physics with special focus on {\em magic angles} of twisting at which TBG acquires unusual properties. Mathematically, topologically non-trivial flat bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-03 Maciej Zworski , Mengxuan Yang , Zhongkai Tao

Introducing quantum confinement has uncovered a rich set of interesting quantum phenomena and allows one to directly probe the physics of confined (quasi-)particles. In most experiments, however, electrostatic potential is the only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Ya-Ning Ren , Yu-Chen Zhuang , Qing-Feng Sun , Lin He

Twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) provides a fascinating platform for engineering flat bands and inducing correlated phenomena. By designing the stacking architecture of graphene layers, twisted multilayer graphene can exhibit different…

We explain the appearance of magic angles and fractional Chern insulators in twisted K-valley homobilayer transition metal dichalcogenides by mapping their continuum model to a Landau level problem. Our approach relies on an adiabatic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-21 Nicolás Morales-Durán , Nemin Wei , Jingtian Shi , Allan H. MacDonald