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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

Geometric frustration is a phenomenon in a lattice system where not all interactions can be satisfied, the simplest example being antiferromagnetically coupled spins on a triangular lattice. Frustrated systems are characterized by their…

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

Twisted $N$-layer graphene (TNG) moir\'e structures have recently been shown to exhibit robust superconductivity similar to twisted bilayer graphene (TBG). In particular for $N=4$ and $N=5$, the phase diagram features a superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-18 Kryštof Kolář , Yiran Zhang , Stevan Nadj-Perge , Felix von Oppen , Cyprian Lewandowski

In twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) a moir\'e pattern forms that introduces a new length scale to the material. At the 'magic' twist angle of 1.1{\deg}, this causes a flat band to form, yielding emergent properties such as correlated…

Superconductivity in strongly correlated electron systems frequently exhibits broken rotational symmetry, raising fundamental questions about the underlying order parameter symmetry. In this work, we demonstrate that electronic…

Moire superlattices in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) and its derived structures can host exotic correlated quantum phenomena because the narrow moire flat minibands in those systems effectively enhance the electron-electron interaction.…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-18 Qiaoling Xu , Yuzheng Guo , Lede Xian

Twisted graphene systems have draw significant attention due to the discoveries of various correlated and topological phases. In particular, recently the alternating twisted trilayer graphene is discovered to exhibit unconventional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-02 Bo Xie , Shihao Zhang , Jianpeng Liu

The discovery of correlated electronic phases, including Mott-like insulators and superconductivity, in twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) near the magic angle, and the intriguing similarity of their phenomenology to that of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-21 Yuhang Jiang , Jinhai Mao , Xinyuan Lai , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Kristjan Haule , Eva Y. Andrei

Moir\'e superlattices hosting flat bands and correlated states have emerged as a focal topic in condensed matter research. Through first-principles calculations, we investigate three-dimensional flat bands in alternating twisted NbSe$_2$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-08 Shuang Liu , Peng Chen , Shihao Zhang

We study theoretically many-body properties of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene for different doping levels. Our investigation is focused on the emergence, stability, and manifestations of nematicity of the ordered low-temperature…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-29 A. O. Sboychakov , A. V. Rozhkov , A. L. Rakhmanov , Franco Nori

Symmetry breaking is an effective tool for tuning the transport and topological properties of 2D layered materials. Among these materials, twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) has emerged as a promising platform for new physics, characterized by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 Cunyuan Jiang , Matteo Baggioli , Qing-Dong Jiang

Interaction-driven spontaneous symmetry breaking lies at the heart of many quantum phases of matter. In moir\'e systems, broken spin/valley 'flavour' symmetry in flat bands underlies the parent state out of which ultimately correlated and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-22 Jeong Min Park , Yuan Cao , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

When two graphene sheets are twisted relative to each other by a small angle, enhanced correlations lead to superconductivity whose origin remains under debate. Here, we derive some general constraints on superconductivity in twisted…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-07-25 Eslam Khalaf , Patrick Ledwith , Ashvin Vishwanath

Lattice dynamics play a crucial role in the physics of Moir\'e systems. In twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), it was shown that, in addition to the graphene phonons, there is another set of gapless excitations termed Moir\'e Phonons [Phys.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 Qiang Gao , Eslam Khalaf

We study the correlated insulating phases of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) in the absence of lattice strain at integer filling $\nu=\pm3$. Using the self-consistent Hartree-Fock method on a particle-hole symmetric model and allowing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-01 Fang Xie , Jian Kang , B. Andrei Bernevig , Oskar Vafek , Nicolas Regnault

Moir\'e-superlattices are ubiquitous in 2D heterostructures, strongly influencing their electronic properties. They give rise to new Dirac cones and are also at the origin of the superconductivity observed in magic-angle bilayer graphene.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-31 Márton Szendrő , Péter Süle , Gergely Dobrik , Levente Tapasztó

Electrons residing in flat-band system can play a vital role in triggering spectacular phenomenology due to relatively large interactions and spontaneous breaking of different degeneracies. In this work we demonstrate chirally twisted…

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) near the magic twist angle of $\sim1.1^{o}$ exhibits a rich phase diagram. However, the interplay between different phases and their dependence on twist angle is still elusive. Here, we explore the stability…

Graphene moire superlattices have emerged as a platform hosting and abundance of correlated insulating, topological, and superconducting phases. While the origins of strong correlations and non-trivial topology are shown to be directly…