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We demonstrate that a single layer of graphene subject to a superlattice potential nearly commensurate to a $\sqrt{3} \times \sqrt{3}$ supercell exactly maps to the chiral model of twisted bilayer graphene, albeit with half as many degrees…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-18 Valentin Crépel , Aaron Dunbrack , Daniele Guerci , John Bonini , Jennifer Cano

Twisted van der Waals materials provide a tunable platform for investigating two-dimensional superconductivity and quantum phases. Using spectra-imaging scanning tunneling microscopy, we study the superconducting states in twisted bilayer…

Twisted bilayer graphene has a rich phase diagram, including superconductivity. Recently, an unexpected discovery has been the observation of superconductivity in non-twisted graphene bilayers and trilayers. In this Perspective, we give an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-29 Pierre A. Pantaleon , Alejandro Jimeno-Pozo , Hector Sainz-Cruz , Vo Tien Phong , Tommaso Cea , Francisco Guinea

We present electronic structure calculations of twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG): A tetralayer graphene structure composed of two AB-stacked graphene bilayers with a relative rotation angle between them. Using first-principles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 F. J. Culchac , Rodrigo B. Capaz , Leonor Chico , E. Suarez Morell

Bilayer graphene twisted at the angle of about 1.1{\deg} better known as magic angle, exhibits ultra-flat moir\'e superlattice bands that are a source of highly-tunable, exotic quantum phenomena. Such phenomena, like superconductivity,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-05 Giovanna Feraco , Wissem Boubaker , Petra Rudolf , Antonija Grubišić-Čabo

Twisted bilayers of two-dimensional materials have emerged as a highly tunable platform for studying broken symmetry phases. While most interest has been focused on emergent states in systems whose constituent monolayers do not feature…

The effects of the long range electrostatic interaction in twisted bilayer graphene are described using the Hartree-Fock approximation. The results show a significant dependence of the band widths and shapes on electron filling, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-29 Tommaso Cea , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Niels R. Walet , Francisco Guinea

Electron collimation via a graphene pn-junction allows electrostatic control of ballistic electron trajectories akin to that of an optical circuit. Similar manipulation of novel correlated electronic phases in twisted-bilayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 Wei Ren , Xi Zhang , Ziyan Zhu , Moosa Khan , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Efthimios Kaxiras , Mitchell Luskin , Ke Wang

The interlayer coupling of twisted bilayer graphene could markedly affect its electronic band structure. A current challenge required to overcome in experiment is how to precisely control the coupling and therefore tune the electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-07 Lan Meng , Wei Yan , Zhao-Dong Chu , Yanfeng Zhang , Lei Feng , Rui-Fen Dou , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He

We use temperature-dependent resistivity in small-angle twisted double bilayer graphene to measure bandwidths and gaps of the bands. This electron-hole asymmetric system has one set of non-dispersing bands that splits into two flat bands…

Moir\'e transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) materials provide an ideal playground for studying the combined interplay of strong interactions and band-topology over a range of electronic fillings. Here we investigate the panoply of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-22 Juan Felipe Mendez-Valderrama , Sunghoon Kim , Debanjan Chowdhury

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

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 study the electronic transmission through a graphene bilayer in the presence of an applied bias between layers. We consider different geometries involving interfaces between both a monolayer and a bilayer and between two bilayers. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Johan Nilsson , A. H. Castro Neto , F. Guinea , N. M. R. Peres

We investigate the domain wall network in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) under the influence of interlayer bias and screening effect from the layered structure. Starting from the continuum model, we analyze the low-energy domain wall modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-22 Hao-Chien Wang , Chen-Hsuan Hsu

Current experiments on different samples of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) have found different sets of insulating phases. Despite this diversity, many features of these insulating phases appear to be universal. They include the dispersion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-24 Tin-Lun Ho , Cheng Li

Electronic properties of bilayer and multilayer graphene have generally been interpreted in terms of AB or Bernal stacking. However, it is known that many types of stacking defects can occur in natural and synthetic graphite; rotation of…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-09 J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos , N. M. R. Peres , A. H. Castro Neto

Recently, alternating twist multilayer graphene (ATMG) has emerged as a family of moir\'e systems that share several fundamental properties with twisted bilayer graphene, and are expected to host similarly strong electron-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 G. William Burg , Eslam Khalaf , Yimeng Wang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Emanuel Tutuc

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MA-TBG) exhibits intriguing quantum phase transitions triggered by enhanced electron-electron interactions when its flat-bands are partially filled. However, the phases themselves and their connection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 Shuang Wu , Zhenyuan Zhang , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , Eva Y. Andrei

Twisted bilayer graphene (TwBLG) is one of the simplest van der Waals heterostructures, yet it yields a complex electronic system with intricate interplay between moir\'{e} physics and interlayer hybridization effects. We report on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-13 Y. Cao , J. Y. Luo , V. Fatemi , S. Fang , J. D. Sanchez-Yamagishi , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , E. Kaxiras , P. Jarillo-Herrero