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The nature of correlated states in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) at the magic angle has received intense attention in recent years. We present a numerical study of an interacting Bistritzer-MacDonald (IBM) model of TBG using a suite of…

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) provides a unique framework to elucidate the interplay between strong correlations and topological phenomena in two-dimensional systems. The existence of multiple electronic degrees of freedom -- charge, spin,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-27 Yuan Da Liao , Jian Kang , Clara N. Breiø , Xiao Yan Xu , Han-Qing Wu , Brian M. Andersen , Rafael M. Fernandes , Zi Yang Meng

Nematic superconductors possess unconventional superconducting order parameters that spontaneously break rotational symmetry of the underlying crystal. In this work we propose a mechanism for nematic superconductivity stabilized by strong…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-04-10 Vladyslav Kozii , Hiroki Isobe , Jörn W. F. Venderbos , Liang Fu

We argue that moir\'e bilayer graphene at charge neutrality hosts a continuous semimetal-to-insulator quantum phase transition that can be accessed experimentally by tuning the twist angle between the two layers. For small twist angles near…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Jan Biedermann , Lukas Janssen

One of the most remarkable theoretical findings in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) is the emergence of ferromagnetic Slater determinants as exact ground states for the interacting Hamiltonian at the chiral limit. This discovery…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Simon Becker , Lin Lin , Kevin D. Stubbs

For twisted bilayer graphene close to magic angle, we show that the effects of lattice relaxation and the Hartree interaction both become simultaneously important. Including both effects in a continuum theory reveals a Lifshitz transition…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-04-30 Mohammed M. Al Ezzi , Liangtao Peng , Zhengyu Liu , Jonah Huang Zi Chao , Gayani N. Pallewela , Darryl Foo , Shaffique Adam

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) features strongly correlated and topological phases due to its flat bands emerging near the magic angle. However, the effects of the non-Hermiticity, arising from the coupling to the environment and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Juan Pablo Esparza , Vladimir Juricic

Although much progress has been made on the physics of magic angle twisted bilayer graphene at integer fillings, little attention has been given to fractional fillings. Here we show that the three-peak structure of Wannier orbitals,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-31 Kevin Zhang , Yang Zhang , Liang Fu , Eun-Ah Kim

The rich phenomenology of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) near the magic angle is believed to arise from electron correlations in topological flat bands. An unbiased approach to this problem is highly desirable, but also particularly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-28 Johannes S. Hofmann , Eslam Khalaf , Ashvin Vishwanath , Erez Berg , Jong Yeon Lee

Coherent spin-dependent transport through a junction containing of Normal/Ferromagnetic/Normal bilayer graphene nanoribbon with zigzag edges is investigated by using Landauer formalism. In a more realistic set-up, the exchange field is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 Vahid Derakhshan , Hosein Cheraghchi

Electron-electron interactions play an important role in graphene and related systems and can induce exotic quantum states, especially in a stacked bilayer with a small twist angle. For bilayer graphene where the two layers are twisted by a…

The Bistritzer-MacDonald continuum model (BM model) describes the low-energy moir\'e bands for twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) at small twist angles. We derive a generalized continuum model for TBG near any commensurate twist angle, which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-20 Michael G. Scheer , Kaiyuan Gu , Biao Lian

Magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) has become one of the prominent topics in Condensed Matter during the last few years, however, fully atomistic studies of the interacting physics are missing. In this work, we study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Miguel Sánchez Sánchez , Tobias Stauber

Quadratic band touching (QBT) points are widely observed in 2D and 3D materials, including bilayer graphene and Luttinger semimetals, and attract significant attention from theory to experiment. However, even in its simplest form, the 2D…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-29 Hongyu Lu , Kai Sun , Zi Yang Meng , Bin-Bin Chen

Two monolayers of graphene twisted by a small `magic' angle exhibit nearly flat bands leading to correlated electronic states and superconductivity, whose precise nature including possible broken symmetries, remain under debate. Here we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-13 Jong Yeon Lee , Eslam Khalaf , Shang Liu , Xiaomeng Liu , Zeyu Hao , Philip Kim , Ashvin Vishwanath

In this work, we study an interacting tight-binding model of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG), with a twist angle of $1.05^\circ$. We derive effective theories based on a mean-field normal state at charge neutrality, thereby…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-27 Miguel Sánchez Sánchez , José González , Tobias Stauber

In bilayer graphene, the phase diagram in the plane of a strain-induced bare nematic term, ${\cal N}_{0}$, and a top-bottom gates voltage imbalance, $U_{0}$, is obtained by solving the gap equation in the random-phase approximation. At…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-09-26 E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy

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 discuss the full optical response of twisted bilayer graphene at the neutrality point close to the magic angle within the continuum model (CM). Firstly, we identify three different channels consistent with the underlying $D_3$ symmetry,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 T. Stauber , M. Wackerl , P. Wenk , D. Margetis , J. González , G. Gómez-Santos , J. Schliemann

We develop a two stage renormalization group which connects the continuum Hamiltonian for twisted bilayer graphene at length scales shorter than the moire superlattice period to the Hamiltonian for the active narrow bands only which is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-21 Oskar Vafek , Jian Kang