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The creation of van der Waals heterostructures based on a graphene monolayer and other two-dimensional crystals has attracted great interest because atomic registry of the two-dimensional crystals can modify the electronic spectra and…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-09-09 Wei Yan , Lan Meng , Mengxi Liu , Jia-Bin Qiao , Zhao-Dong Chu , Rui-Fen Dou , Zhongfan Liu , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He

Moir\'e superlattices created by the twisted stacking of two-dimensional crystalline monolayers can host electronic bands with flat energy dispersion in which interaction among electrons is strongly enhanced. These superlattices can also…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 Xiaomeng Liu , Cheng-Li Chiu , Jong Yeon Lee , Gelareh Farahi , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ashvin Vishwanath , Ali Yazdani

Van der Waals heterostructures provide a rich platform for emergent physics due to their tunable hybridization of electronic orbital- and spin-degrees of freedom. Here, we show that a heterostructure formed by twisted bilayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 Tobias M. R. Wolf , Oded Zilberberg , Gianni Blatter , Jose L. Lado

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

The emergence of flat bands in twisted bilayer graphene leads to an enhancement of interaction effects, and thus to insulating and superconducting phases at low temperatures, even though the exact mechanism is still widely debated. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-15 Tommaso Cea , Niels R. Walet , Francisco Guinea

Atomically thin van der Waals materials stacked with an interlayer twist have proven to be an excellent platform towards achieving gate-tunable correlated phenomena linked to the formation of flat electronic bands. In this work we…

The possibility of triggering correlated phenomena by placing a singularity of the density of states near the Fermi energy remains an intriguing avenue towards engineering the properties of quantum materials. Twisted bilayer graphene is a…

We investigate the electronic band structure and the proximity exchange effect in bilayer graphene on a family of ferromagnetic multilayers Cr$_2$X$_2$Te$_6$, X=Ge, Si, and Sn, with first principles methods. In each case the intrinsic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-10 Klaus Zollner , Martin Gmitra , Jaroslav Fabian

The recent discovery of unconventional superconductivity has pointed to twisted WSe$_2$ bilayer as a versatile platform for studying the correlated and topological phases of matter. Here we analyze the effect of the displacement field and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-27 Michał Zegrodnik , Waseem Akbar , Andrzej Biborski , Louk Rademaker

Motivated by recent discovery of correlated insulating and superconducting behavior in twisted bilayer graphene, we revisit graphene's honeycomb lattice doped close to the van Hove singularity, using the truncated unity functional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-20 Song-Jin O , Yong-Hwan Kim , Ok-Gyong Pak , Kum-Hyok Jong , Chol-Won Ri , Hak-Chol Pak

Graphene-based systems have emerged as a rich platform for exploring emergent quantum phenomena-including superconductivity, magnetism, and correlated insulating behavior-arising from flat electronic bands that enhance many-body…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Xinyu Cai , Fengfan Ren , Qiao Li , Yanran Shi , Yifan Wang , Yifan Zhang , Zhenghang Zhi , Jiawei Luo , Yulin Chen , Jianpeng Liu , Xufeng Kou , Zhongkai Liu

Divergent density of states offers the unique opportunity to explore a wide variety of correlated electron physics. In the thinnest limit, this has been predicted and verified in the ultra-flat bands of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-15 Anna M. Seiler , Fabian R. Geisenhof , Felix Winterer , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Tianyi Xu , Fan Zhang , R. Thomas Weitz

Motivated by the recently observed insulating states in twisted bilayer graphene, we study the nature of the correlated insulating phases of the twisted bilayer graphene at commensurate filling fractions. We use the continuum model and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-23 Yi Zhang , Kun Jiang , Ziqiang Wang , Fuchun Zhang

Bilayer graphene, forming moir\'e superlattices, possesses distinct electronic and optical properties derived from the hybridization of energy band and the emergence of van Hove singularities depending on its twist angle. Extensive research…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Ming Liu , Ryosuke Senga , Masanori Koshino , Yung-Chang Lin , Kazu Suenaga

Evidence for correlated insulating and superconducting phases around regions of high density of states was reported in the strongly spin-orbit coupled van-der Waals material twisted tungsten diselenide (tWSe$_2$). We investigate their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-15 Lennart Klebl , Ammon Fischer , Laura Classen , Michael M. Scherer , Dante M. Kennes

Twisted bilayer graphene provides a new two-dimensional platform for studying electron interaction phenomena and flat band properties such as correlated insulator transition, superconductivity and ferromagnetism at certain magic angles.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-10 Liheng An , Xiangbin Cai , Meizhen Huang , Zefei Wu , Jiangxiazi Lin , Zhehan Ying , Ziqing Ye , Xuemeng Feng , Ning Wang

Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures are an emergent class of metamaterials comprised of vertically stacked two-dimensional (2D) building blocks, which provide us with a vast tool set to engineer their properties on top of the already rich…

We consider the superconducting and Mott-insulating states for the twisted bilayer graphene, modeled as two narrow-band system of electrons with appreciable intraatomic Coulomb interactions. The interaction induces kinetic exchange which…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-29 Maciej Fidrysiak , Michał Zegrodnik , Józef Spałek

We investigate correlated insulating states in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) by the exact diagonalization method applied to the extended Hubbard model with interaction parameters recently evaluated in the realistic effective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-08 Masayuki Ochi , Mikito Koshino , Kazuhiko Kuroki

We propose that the electronic structure of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) can be understood as Dirac fermions coupled with opposite pseudo magnetic fields generated by the moir\'e pattern. The two low-energy flat bands from each monolayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-24 Jianpeng Liu , Junwei Liu , Xi Dai