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Magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene (MATTG) exhibits a range of strongly correlated electronic phases that spontaneously break its underlying symmetries. The microscopic nature of these phases and their residual symmetries stands as a key…

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

Electronic correlations in two-dimensional materials play a crucial role in stabilising emergent phases of matter. The realisation of correlation-driven phenomena in graphene has remained a longstanding goal, primarily due to the absence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Saisab Bhowmik , Arindam Ghosh , U. Chandni

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) develops large moir\'e patterns at small twist angles with flat energy bands hosting domes of superconductivity. The large system size and intricate band structure have however hampered investigations into the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-07-19 Tomas Löthman , Johann Schmidt , Fariborz Parhizgar , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

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

We determine the ground states and excitation spectra of the paradigmatic four-flavour Heisenberg model with nearest- and next-nearest-neighbor exchange couplings on the triangular lattice in a field controlling the population imbalance of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-08 Lorenzo Del Re , Laura Classen

The velocities of the quasiparticles that form Cooper pairs in a superconductor are revealed by the upper critical magnetic field. Here we use this property to assess superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG), which…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-02-23 Wei Qin , Bo Zou , Allan H. MacDonald

We propose Landau levels as a probe for the topological character of electronic bands in two-dimensional moir\'e superlattices. We consider two configurations of twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG) that have very similar band structures,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 QuanSheng Wu , Jianpeng Liu , Oleg V. Yazyev

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene is the best studied physical platform featuring moire potential induced narrow bands with non-trivial topology and strong electronic correlations. Despite their significance, the Chern insulating states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Xiaoyu Wang , Oskar Vafek

We investigate the band structure of twisted monolayer-bilayer graphene (tMBG), or twisted graphene on bilayer graphene (tGBG), as a function of twist angles and perpendicular electric fields in search of optimum conditions for achieving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Youngju Park , Bheema Lingam Chittari , Jeil Jung

Twisted bilayer graphene exhibits isolated, relatively flat electronic bands near charge neutrality when the interlayer rotation is tuned to specific magic angles. These small misalignments, typically below 1.1{\deg}, result in long-period…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Antonio Palamara , Michele Pisarra , Antonello Sindona

We study the single- and many-particle properties of a two-leg ladder model threaded by a flux with the legs coupled by a spatially varying term. Although a priori unrelated to twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), the model is found to have…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-29 Yixuan Huang , Pavan Hosur , Hridis K. Pal

Motivated by recent experiments indicating strong superconductivity and intricate correlated insulating and flavor-polarized physics in mirror-symmetric twisted trilayer graphene, we study the effects of interactions in this system close to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-26 Maine Christos , Subir Sachdev , Mathias S. Scheurer

We present here a Hofstadter's butterfly spectrum for the magic angle twisted bilayer graphene obtained using an ab initio based multi-million atom tight-binding model. We incorporate a hexagonal boron nitride substrate and out-of-plane…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-08 Alina Wania Rodrigues , Maciej Bieniek , Paweł Potasz , Daniel Miravet , Ronny Thomale , Marek Korkusiński , Paweł Hawrylak

Monolayer graphene placed with a twist on top of AB-stacked bilayer graphene hosts topological flat bands in a wide range of twist angles. The dispersion of these bands and gaps between them can be efficiently controlled by a perpendicular…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-05 Louk Rademaker , Ivan Protopopov , Dmitry Abanin

When the perpendicular magnetic flux per unit cell in a crystal is equal to the quantum of magnetic flux, $\Phi_0=h/e$, we enter the 'Hofstadter regime'. The large unit cell of moir\'e materials like magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-31 Miguel Sánchez Sánchez , Tobias Stauber

Although much progress has been made on the physics of magic angle twisted bilayer graphene at integer fillings, little attention has been given to fractional fillings. Here we show that the three-peak structure of Wannier orbitals,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-31 Kevin Zhang , Yang Zhang , Liang Fu , Eun-Ah Kim

Twisted van der Waals heterostructures with flat electronic bands have recently emerged as a platform for realizing correlated and topological states with an extraordinary degree of control and tunability. In graphene-based moir\'e…

Even as the understanding of the mechanism behind correlated insulating states in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene converges towards various kinds of spontaneous symmetry breaking, the metallic "normal state" above the insulating…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-24 Peter Cha , Aavishkar A. Patel , Eun-Ah Kim

New phases of matter can be stabilized by a combination of diverging electronic density of states, strong interactions, and spin-orbit coupling. Recent experiments in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) have uncovered a wealth of…