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We consider confinement of Dirac fermions in $AB$-stacked bilayer graphene by inhomogeneous on-site interactions, (pseudo-)magnetic field or inter-layer interaction. Working within the framework of four-band approximation, we focus on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Miguel Castillo-Celeita , Vít Jakubský , Kevin Zelaya

Experiments on graphene bilayers, where the top layer is rotated with respect to the one below, have displayed insulating behavior when the moir\'e bands are partially filled. We calculate the charge distributions in these phases, and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-15 Ipsita Mandal , Jia Yao , Erich J. Mueller

Why do experiments only observe one magic angle in twisted bilayer graphene, despite standard models like the chiral limit of the Bistritzer-MacDonald Hamiltonian predicting an infinite number? In this article, we explore the relative…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Simon Becker , Izak Oltman , Martin Vogel

Rhombohedral stacked multilayer graphene is an ideal platform to search for correlated electron phenomena, due to its pair of flat bands touching at zero energy and further tunability by an electric field. Furthermore, its valley-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-29 Tonghang Han , Zhengguang Lu , Giovanni Scuri , Jiho Sung , Jue Wang , Tianyi Han , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Hongkun Park , Long Ju

Here we present a theory of mirror-symmetric magic angle twisted trilayer graphene. The electronic properties are described by a Hubbard model with long range tunneling matrix elements. The electronic properties are obtained by solving the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Alina Wania Rodrigues , Maciej Bieniek , Daniel Miravet , Pawel Hawrylak

Determining the symmetry breaking order of correlated quantum phases is essential for understanding the microscopic interactions in their host systems. The flat bands in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) provide an especially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 Jesse C. Hoke , Yifan Li , Julian May-Mann , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Barry Bradlyn , Taylor L. Hughes , Benjamin E. Feldman

Bilayer graphene has drawn significant attention due to the opening of a band gap in its low energy electronic spectrum, which offers a promising route to electronic applications. The gap can be either tunable through an external electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Gregory M. Rutter , Suyong Jung , Nikolai N. Klimov , David B. Newell , Nikolai B. Zhitenev , Joseph A. Stroscio

By exploiting density-matrix renormalization group techniques, we investigate the dynamical spin structure factor of a spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain with ferromagnetic nearest-neighbor and antiferromagnetic next-nearest-neighbor exchange…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-17 Hiroaki Onishi

An energy gap can be opened in the electronic spectrum of graphene by lifting its sublattice symmetry. In bilayers, it is possible to open gaps as large as 0.2 eV. However, these gaps rarely lead to a highly insulating state expected for…

The coexistence of superconducting and correlated insulating states in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene prompts fascinating questions about the relationship of these orders. Independent control of the microscopic mechanisms governing…

The transport properties of a twisted bilayer graphene barrier are investigated for various twist angles. Remarkably, for small twist angles around the magic angle $\theta_m \sim 1.05^{\circ}$, the local currents around the AA-stacked…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-28 D. A. Bahamon , G. Gómez-Santos , T. Stauber

We consider the stability of fragile topological bands protected by space-time inversion symmetry in the presence of strong electron-electron interactions. At the single-particle level, the topological nature of the bands prevents the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-21 Ari M. Turner , Erez Berg , Ady Stern

Magic angle twisted bilayer graphene has emerged as a powerful platform for studying strongly correlated electron physics, owing to its almost dispersionless low-energy bands and the ability to tune the band filling by electrostatic gating.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Nikhil Tilak , Xinyuan Lai , Shuang Wu , Zhenyuan Zhang , Mingyu Xu , Raquel de Almeida Ribeiro , Paul C Canfield , Eva Y. Andrei

The experimental realization of twisted bilayer graphene strongly pushed the inspection of bilayer systems. In this context, it was recently shown that a two layer Haldane model with a thirty degree rotation angle between the layers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-16 Simone Traverso , Niccolò Traverso Ziani , Maura Sassetti

We consider the problem of numerically computing the quantum dynamics of an electron in twisted bilayer graphene. The challenge is that atomic-scale models of the dynamics are aperiodic for generic twist angles because of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Tianyu Kong , Diyi Liu , Mitchell Luskin , Alexander B. Watson

Graphene-based moir\'{e} systems have attracted considerable interest in recent years as they display a remarkable variety of correlated phenomena. Besides insulating and superconducting phases in the vicinity of integer fillings of the…

Breakthroughs in two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures have revealed that twisting creates a moir\'e pattern that quenches the kinetic energy of electrons, allowing for exotic many-body states. We show that cold-atomic, trapped…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-12 Yixing Fu , E. J. König , J. H. Wilson , Yang-Zhi Chou , J. H. Pixley

Stacking two layers of graphene with a relative twist angle gives rise to moir\'e patterns, which can strongly modify electronic behavior and may lead to unconventional superconductivity. A synthetic version of twisted bilayers can be…

We study strongly correlated superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) using variational Gutzwiller wavefunction where the Gutzwiller projector $\hat{P}_{R}$ is allowed to break charge U(1) symmetry to accommodate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-09 Matthew Shu Liang , Yi-Jie Wang , Geng-Dong Zhou , Zhi-Da Song , Xi Dai

Close to charge neutrality, the low-energy properties of high-quality suspended devices based on atomically thin graphene layers are determined by electron-electron interactions. Bernal-stacked layers, in particular, have shown a remarkable…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-20 Youngwoo Nam , Dong-Keun Ki , Mikito Koshino , Edward McCann , Alberto F. Morpurgo