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We consider twisted bilayer and trilayer graphene in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling and explore the physics of Moir\'e spintronics. The electronic charge density has a sharp step right at the magic angles $\theta_m$. As a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Yshai Avishai , Yehuda Band

Twisted bilayered graphenes at magic angles are systems housing long ranged periodicity of Moir\'e pattern together with short ranged periodicity associated with the individual graphenes. Such materials are a fertile ground for novel states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-11 Pablo Rodriguez-Lopez , Dai-Nam Le , María J. Calderón , Elena Bascones , Lilia M. Woods

Motivated by the recent observation of correlated insulator states and unconventional superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene, we study the dependence of electron correlations on the twist angle and reveal the existence of strong…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-18 Zachary A. H. Goodwin , Fabiano Corsetti , Arash A. Mostofi , Johannes Lischner

We explore in detail the electronic phases of a system consisting of three non-colinear arrays of coupled quantum wires, each rotated 120 degrees with respect to the next. A perturbative renormalization-group analysis reveals that multiple…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-29 Chuan Chen , A. H. Castro Neto , Vitor M. Pereira

Twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) has recently emerged as a new platform for studying electron correlations, the strength of which can be controlled via the twist angle. Here, we study the effect of internal screening on electron-electron…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-18 Zachary A. H. Goodwin , Fabiano Corsetti , Arash A. Mostofi , Johannes Lischner

The understanding of strongly-correlated materials, and in particular unconventional superconductors, has puzzled physicists for decades. Such difficulties have stimulated new research paradigms, such as ultra-cold atom lattices for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-22 Yuan Cao , Valla Fatemi , Shiang Fang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Efthimios Kaxiras , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

Electron interactions in quantum materials fundamentally shape their energy bands and, with them, the material's most intriguing quantum phases. Magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) has emerged as a model system, where flat bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 J. Xiao , A. Inbar , J. Birkbeck , N. Gershon , Y. Zamir , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , E. Berg , S. Ilani

The presence of interlayer interactions in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) enhances several characteristics, including the optical and electrical properties. We theoretically investigate the magic angle of TBG according to the vanishing of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-15 Yong-Mei Zhang , Mauro Antezza , Jian-Sheng Wang

Materials with flat electronic bands often exhibit exotic quantum phenomena owing to strong correlations. Remarkably, an isolated low-energy flat band can be induced in bilayer graphene by simply rotating the layers to 1.1$^{\circ}$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Matthew Yankowitz , Shaowen Chen , Hryhoriy Polshyn , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , David Graf , Andrea F. Young , Cory R. Dean

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene exhibits quasi-flat low-energy bands with Van Hove singularities close to the Fermi level. These singularities play an important role in the exotic phenomena observed in this material, such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-08 Aleksander Sanjuan Ciepielewski , Jakub Tworzydło , Timo Hyart , Alexander Lau

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

Twisted bilayer graphene displays many fascinating properties that can be tuned by varying the relative angle (also called twist angle) between its monolayers. As a remarkable feature, both the electronic flat bands and the corresponding…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-06 V. Hung Nguyen , Trinh X. Hoang , J. -C. Charlier

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

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), with rotational misalignment close to 1.1$^\circ$, features isolated flat electronic bands that host a rich phase diagram of correlated insulating, superconducting, ferromagnetic, and topological…

Thanks to the recent discovery on the magic-angle bilayer graphene, twistronics is quickly becom11 ing a burgeoning field in condensed matter physics. This letter expands the realm of twistronics to acoustics by introducing twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Yuanchen Deng , Mourad Oudich , Nikhil JRK Gerard , Jun Ji , Minghui Lu , Yun Jing

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

Flat electronic bands can accommodate a plethora of interaction driven quantum phases, since kinetic energy is quenched therein and electronic interactions therefore prevail. Twisted bilayer graphene, near so-called the "magic angles",…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Bitan Roy , Vladimir Juricic

Recent experiments show how a bilayer graphene twisted around a certain magic angle becomes superconducting as it is doped into a region with approximate flat bands. We investigate the mean-field $s$-wave superconducting state in such a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-12-19 T. J. Peltonen , R. Ojajärvi , T. T. Heikkilä

Twisted bilayer graphenes with magical angle exhibit strongly correlated electronic properties because of the isolated flat band at the Fermi level. We studied the twisted bilayer graphene with substrates on both layers. The substrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-30 Ma Luo

The recent discovery of correlated insulator states and superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has paved the way to the experimental investigation of electronic correlations in tunable flat band systems realized in…