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Near a magic twist angle, the lowest energy conduction and valence bands of bilayer graphene moir\'e superlattices become extremely narrow. The band dispersion that remains is sensitive to the moir\'e's strain pattern, nonlocal tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-04 Ming Xie , Allan H. MacDonald

Flat band electronic modes are responsible for superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) rotated at magic angles. From there other magic angles can be found for any multilayered twisted graphene systems. Eventually, this lead to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-15 Leonardo A. Navarro-Labastida , Gerardo G. Naumis

The discovery of alternating superconducting and insulating ground-states in magic angle graphene has suggested an intriguing analogy with cuprate high-$T_c$ materials. Here we argue that the network states of small angle twisted bilayer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-02 E. J. König , Piers Coleman , A. M. Tsvelik

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) has been experimentally observed to exhibit almost flat bands when the twisting occurs at certain magic angles. In this letter, we report new results on the continuum model of twisted bilayer graphene and its…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-21 Simon Becker , Mark Embree , Jens Wittsten , Maciej Zworski

According to electronic structure theory, bilayer graphene is expected to have anomalous electronic properties when it has long-period moir\'e patterns produced by small misalignments between its individual layer honeycomb lattices. We have…

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…

Two-dimensional atomic crystals can radically change their properties in response to external influences such as substrate orientation or strain, resulting in essentially new materials in terms of the electronic structure. A striking…

We study analytically and numerically electronic properties of a circular quantum dot made from AA bilayer graphene. We observe a discrete set of dot radii for which the low-energy electron states are degenerate with respect to the layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-24 A. L. Rakhmanov , A. V. Rozhkov , A. O. Sboychakov

We study the localization properties of electrons in incommensurate twisted bilayer graphene for small angles, encompassing the narrow-band regime, by numerically exact means. Sub-ballistic states are found within the narrow-band region…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-08 Miguel Gonçalves , Hadi Z. Olyaei , Bruno Amorim , Rubem Mondaini , Pedro Ribeiro , Eduardo V. Castro

Twisted bilayer graphene develop quasi-flat bands at specific "magic" interlayer rotation angles through an unconventional mechanism connected to carrier chirality. Quasi-flat bands are responsible for a wealth of exotic,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 María Rosendo , Fernando Peñaranda , Johan Christensen , Pablo San-Jose

Small-twist-angle bilayer graphene supports strongly correlated insulating states and superconductivity. Twisted few-layer graphene systems are likely to open up new directions for strong correlation physics in moir\'e superlattices. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-30 Xiao Li , Fengcheng Wu , Allan H. MacDonald

Close to a magical angle, twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) systems exhibit isolated flat electronic bands and, accordingly, strong electron localization. TBLGs have hence been ideal platforms to explore superconductivity, correlated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-28 V. Hung Nguyen , D. Paszko , M. Lamparski , B. Van Troeye , V. Meunier , J. -C. Charlier

Strongly correlated and topological phases in moir\'e materials are exquisitely sensitive to lattice geometry at both atomic and superlattice length scales. Twist angle, pressure, and strain directly modify the lattice, and thus act as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Xuetao Ma , Zhaoyu Liu , Jiaqi Cai , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Xiaodong Xu , Jiun-Haw Chu , Matthew Yankowitz

Recent experimental discoveries of superconductivity and other exotic electronic states in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) call for a reconsideration of our traditional theories of these states, usually based on the assumption of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-09-06 Tero T. Heikkila , Timo Hyart

Extensive investigations on the Moir\'e magic-angle have been conducted in twisted bilayer graphene, unlocking the mystery of unconventional superconductivity and insulating states. In analog to magic angle, here we demonstrate the new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-24 Qingxiang Ji , Bohan Li , Johan Christensen , Changguo Wang , Muamer Kadic

Zero energy eigenstates $\psi_0(\theta)$ of the twisted bilayer graphene Hamiltonian at the Dirac point show a high sensitivity to the twist angle $\theta$ near the magic angles where the effective Fermi velocity vanishes. We use…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Manuel Calixto , Alberto Mayorgas , Octavio Castaños

Twisted graphene bilayers provide a versatile platform to engineer metamaterials with novel emergent properties by exploiting the resulting geometric moir\'{e} superlattice. Such superlattices are known to host bulk valley currents at tiny…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 T. M. R. Wolf , J. L. Lado , G. Blatter , O. Zilberberg

We investigate bilayers of nanoporous graphene (NPG), laterally bonded carbon nanoribbons, and graphene. The electronic and transport properties are explored as a function of the interlayer twist angle using an atomistic tight-binding model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-12 Xabier Diaz de Cerio , Aleksander Bach Lorentzen , Mads Brandbyge , Aran Garcia-Lekue

The salient property of the electronic band structure of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), at the so-called magic angle (MA), is the emergence of flat bands around the charge neutrality point. These bands are associated with the observed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-04 Sonia Haddad , Takeo Kato , Jihang Zhu , Lassaad Mandhour

Twisted bilayer graphene is an excellent example of highly correlated system demonstrating a nearly flat electron band, the Mott transition and probably a spin liquid state. Besides the one-electron picture, analysis of Dirac points is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-28 V. Yu. Irkhin , Yu. N. Skryabin
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