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Twisted graphene bilayers develop highly localised states around AA-stacked regions for small twist angles. We show that interaction effects may induce either an antiferromagnetic (AF) and a ferromagnetic (F) polarization of said regions,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Luis A. Gonzalez-Arraga , J. L. Lado , Francisco Guinea , Pablo San-Jose

We derive electronic structure models for weakly interacting bilayers such as graphene-graphene and graphene-hexagonal boron nitride, based on density functional theory calculations followed by Wannier transformation of electronic states.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-28 Shiang Fang , Efthimios Kaxiras

Using scanning probe microscopy and spectroscopy, we explore the spatial symmetry of the electronic wavefunctions of twisted bilayer graphene at the "magic angle" of 1.1 degrees. This small twist angle leads to a long wavelength moir\'e…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 Zhiming Zhang , Rachel Myers , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Brian J. LeRoy

Motivated by the recent experiment of Velasco Jr. {\em et al.} [J. Velasco Jr. {\em et al.}, Nat. Nanotechnology 7, {\bf 156} (2012)], we develop a mean-field theory of the interaction-induced antiferromagnetic (AF) state in bilayer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-12-04 Maxim Kharitonov

Graphene-based moir\'e superlattice featuring flat bands is a promising platform for studying strongly correlated states. By tuning two twist angles and displacement fields in twisted mono-mono-bilayer graphene (TMMBG), we observed a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-01 Jin Jiang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Mitali Banerjee

We consider a model of half-filled bilayer graphene, in which the three dominant Slonczewski-Weiss-McClure hopping parameters are retained, in the presence of short range interactions. Under a smallness assumption on the interaction…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Alessandro Giuliani , Ian Jauslin

The interlayer energy of the twisting bilayer graphene is investigated by the molecular mechanics method using both the registry-dependent potential and the Lennard-Jones potential. Both potentials show that the interlayer energy is…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-07-12 Jin-Wu Jiang , Bing-Shen Wang , Timon Rabczuk

We review analytical and numerical studies of correlated insulating states in twisted bilayer graphene, focusing on real-space lattice models constructions and their unbiased quantum many-body solutions. We show that by constructing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-12 Yuan Da Liao , Xiao Yan Xu , Zi Yang Meng , Jian Kang

We propose that a weakly spontaneous charge-ordered insulating state probably exists in Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene which can account for experimentally observed non-monotonic behavior of resistance as a function of the gated field,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 Xiu-Cai Jiang , Ze-Yi Song , Ze Ruan , Yu-Zhong Zhang

A variational ground state for insulating bilayer graphene (BLG), subject to quantizing magnetic fields, is proposed. Due to the Zeeman coupling, the layer anti-ferromagnet (LAF) order parameter in fully gapped BLG gets projected onto the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-20 Bitan Roy

We perform an extensive exact diagonalization study of interaction driven insulators in spin- and valley-polarized moir\'{e} flat bands of twisted bilayer graphene aligned with its hexagonal boron nitride substrate. In addition to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-05 Patrick Wilhelm , Thomas C. Lang , Andreas M. Läuchli

We study the effect of electron-electron interactions in the electronic properties of a biased graphene bilayer. This system is a semiconductor with conduction and valence bands characterized by an unusual ``mexican-hat'' dispersion. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 T. Stauber , N. M. R. Peres , F. Guinea , A. H. Castro Neto

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) hosts a rich landscape of electronic phases arising from the interplay between strong electron-electron interactions and nontrivial band topology. While the flat bands near zero energy are central to many…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Leonardo A. Navarro-Labastida , Pierre A. Pantaleon , Francisco Guinea , Gerardo G. Naumis

At certain angles of rotation called `magic angles' twisted bilayer graphene features almost flat bands. The resulting strong correlations drive the system to novel phases which have been observed in experiments recently. A complete…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-01 Steven C. Carter , Hridis K. Pal , M. Kindermann

We investigate the effect of uniaxial heterostrain on the interacting phase diagram of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene. Using both self-consistent Hartree-Fock and density-matrix renormalization group calculations, we find that small…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-14 Daniel E. Parker , Tomohiro Soejima , Johannes Hauschild , Michael P. Zaletel , Nick Bultinck

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) is remarkable for its topological flat bands, which drive strongly-interacting physics at integer fillings, and its simple theoretical description facilitated by the Bistritzer-MacDonald Hamiltonian, a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-08-10 Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman , Aaron Chew , Dmitri K. Efetov , B. Andrei Bernevig

Even as the understanding of the mechanism behind correlated insulating states in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene converges towards various kinds of spontaneous symmetry breaking, the metallic "normal state" above the insulating…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-24 Peter Cha , Aavishkar A. Patel , Eun-Ah Kim

Magic angles in the chiral model of twisted bilayer graphene are parameters for which the chiral version of the Bistritzer--MacDonald Hamiltonian exhibits a flat band at energy zero. We compute the sums over powers of (complex) magic angles…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-06-02 Simon Becker , Tristan Humbert , Maciej Zworski

Moir\'e superlattice in twisted bilayer graphene has been proven to be a versatile platform for exploring exotic quantum phases. Extensive investigations have been invoked focusing on the zero-magnetic-field phase diagram at the magic twist…

We studied the real space structure of states in twisted bilayer graphene at the `magic angle' $\theta = 1.08^\circ$. The flat bands close to charge neutrality are composed of a mix of `ring' and `center' orbitals around the AA stacking…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-02 Louk Rademaker , Paula Mellado