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The role of twist angle ($\theta_t$) in tailoring the physical properties of heterostructures is emerging as a new paradigm in two-dimensional materials. The influence of flat electronic bands near the magic angle ($\sim$1.1$^{\circ}$) on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Darshit Solanki , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , A. K. Sood , Anindya Das

Atomically thin crystals hosting flat electronic bands have been recently identified as a rich playground for exploring and engineering strongly correlated phases. Yet, their variety remains limited, primarily to two-dimensional moir\'e…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-23 Ruize Ma , Nikita V. Tepliakov , Arash A. Mostofi , Michele Pizzochero

Twisted trilayer graphene (TLG) may be the simplest realistic system so far, which has flat bands with nontrivial topology. Here, we give a detailed calculation about its band structures and the band topology, i.e. valley Chern number of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Zhen Ma , Shuai Li , Ya-Wen Zheng , Meng-Meng Xiao , Hua Jiang , Jin-Hua Gao , X. C. Xie

Dodecagonal bilayer graphene quasicrystal has 12-fold rotational order but lacks translational symmetry which prevents the application of band theory. In this paper, we study the electronic and optical properties of graphene quasicrystal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-16 Guodong Yu , Zewen Wu , Zhen Zhan , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Shengjun Yuan

For twisted bilayer graphene close to magic angle, we show that the effects of lattice relaxation and the Hartree interaction both become simultaneously important. Including both effects in a continuum theory reveals a Lifshitz transition…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-04-30 Mohammed M. Al Ezzi , Liangtao Peng , Zhengyu Liu , Jonah Huang Zi Chao , Gayani N. Pallewela , Darryl Foo , Shaffique Adam

Stacked graphene multilayers with a small relative twist angle between each of the layers have been found to host flat bands at a series of magic angles. We consider the effect that Dirac point asymmetry between the layers, and in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 Adam Eaton , Yantao Li , Herbert Fertig , Babak Seradjeh

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

We show that electronic materials with disallowed rotational symmetries that enforce quasiperiodic order can exhibit quantum oscillations and that these are generically associated with exotic "spiral Fermi surfaces." These Fermi surfaces…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-21 Stephen Spurrier , Nigel R. Cooper

Low-energy moir\'e flat bands in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (tBG) have demonstrated incredible potentials to exhibit rich exotic quantum phenomena. Theoretically, the moir\'e flat bands of tBG are based on the extended structures,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-23 Long-Jing Yin , Ling-Hui Tong , Yue-Ying Zhou , Yang Zhang , Yuan Tian , Li Zhang , Lijie Zhang , Zhihui Qin

Band structure determines the motion of electrons in a solid, giving rise to exotic phenomena when properly engineered. Drawing an analogy between electrons and photons, artificially designed optical lattices indicate the possibility of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-01 Siqi Wang , Xianqing Lin , Mervin Zhao , Changjian Zhang , Sui Yang , Yuan Wang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , James Hone , David Tomanek , Xiang Zhang

Multilayer moir\'e materials can exhibit topological electronic features yet are inherently quasiperiodic -- leading to wave function interference whose Anderson-localizing tendency can be mitigated by topology. We consider a quasiperiodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Xinghai Zhang , Justin H. Wilson , Matthew S. Foster

We study flat bands and their topology in 2D materials with quadratic band crossing points (QBCPs) under periodic strain. In contrast to Dirac points in graphene, where strain acts as a vector potential, strain for QBCPs serves as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Xiaohan Wan , Siddhartha Sarkar , Shi-Zeng Lin , Kai Sun

Incommensurately twisted graphene bilayers are described by long-wavelength theories, but to date such theories exist only at small angles of interlayer rotation. We construct a long wavelength theory without such a restriction, instead…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-09 Hridis K. Pal , Steven Carter , M. Kindermann

We show that the electronic structure of the low-energy bands in the small angle-twisted bilayer graphene consists of a series of semi-metallic and topological phases. In particular we are able to prove, using an approximate low-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Zhida Song , Zhijun Wang , Wujun Shi , Gang Li , Chen Fang , B. Andrei Bernevig

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

We investigate the effect of a magnetic field on the band structure of bilayer graphene with a magic twist angle of 1.08{\deg}. The coupling of a tight-binding model and the Peierls phase allows the calculation of the energy bands of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-20 Gaëlle Bigeard , Alessandro Cresti

We investigate the electronic structure of a twisted multilayer graphene system forming a moir\'e pattern. We consider small twist angles separating the graphene sheets and develop a low-energy theory to describe the coupling of Dirac Bloch…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Christophe Mora , Nicolas Regnault , B. Andrei Bernevig

Motivated by the observation of polarization superlattices in twisted multilayers of hexagonal boron nitride ($h$-BN), we address the possibility of using these heterostructures for tailoring the properties of multilayer graphene by means…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-29 Marta Brzezińska , Oleg V. Yazyev

Spontaneous orbital magnetism observed in twisted bilayer graphene (tBG) on nearly aligned hexagonal boron nitride (BN) substrate builds on top of the electronic structure resulting from combined G/G and G/BN double moire interfaces. Here…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Jiseon Shin , Youngju Park , Bheema Lingam Chittari , Jeil Jung

A bipartite lattice with chiral symmetry is known to host zero energy flat bands if the numbers of the two sublattices are different. We demonstrate that this mechanism of producing flat bands can be realized on graphene by introducing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Matheus S. M. de Sousa , Fujun Liu , Fanyao Qu , Wei Chen