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We report on magneto-transport measurements up to 30 T performed on a bilayer graphene Hall bar, enclosed by two thin hexagonal boron nitride flakes. Our high mobility sample exhibits an insulating state at neutrality point which evolves…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 S. Pezzini , C. Cobaleda , B. A. Piot , V. Bellani , E. Diez

Graphene bilayers exhibit zero-energy flat bands at a discrete series of magic twist angles. In the absence of intra-sublattice inter-layer hopping, zero-energy states satisfy a Dirac equation with a non-abelian SU(2) gauge potential that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Yafei Ren , Qiang Gao , A. H. MacDonald , Qian Niu

We study the zero-temperature many-body properties of twisted bilayer graphene with a twist angle equal to the so-called `first magic angle'. The system low-energy single-electron spectrum consists of four (eight, if spin label is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-30 A. O. Sboychakov , A. V. Rozhkov , A. L. Rakhmanov , Franco Nori

We use a lowest Landau level model to study the recent observation of an anomalous Hall effect in twisted bilayer graphene. This effective model is rooted in the occurrence of Chern bands which arise due to the coupling between the graphene…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-28 Nick Bultinck , Shubhayu Chatterjee , Michael P. Zaletel

In the past two years, magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has emerged as a uniquely versatile experimental platform that combines metallic, superconducting, magnetic and insulating phases in a single crystal. In particular the ability to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-30 Folkert K. de Vries , Elias Portoles , Giulia Zheng , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin , Peter Rickhaus

The nematic phase transition in electronic liquids, driven by Coulomb interactions, represents a new class of strongly correlated electronic ground states. We studied suspended samples of bilayer graphene, annealed so that it achieves very…

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) features strongly correlated and topological phases due to its flat bands emerging near the magic angle. However, the effects of the non-Hermiticity, arising from the coupling to the environment and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Juan Pablo Esparza , Vladimir Juricic

We study the effect of an in-plane magnetic field on the non-interacting dispersion of twisted bilayer graphene. Our analysis is rooted in the chirally symmetric continuum model, whose zero-field band structure hosts exactly flat bands and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-20 Yves H. Kwan , S. A. Parameswaran , S. L. Sondhi

We investigate the effect of an applied uniaxial strain on the ferromagnetic instability due to long- range Coulomb interaction between Dirac fermions in graphene. In case of undeformed graphene the ferromagnetic exchange instability occurs…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-30 Anand Sharma , Valeri N. Kotov , Antonio H. Castro Neto

We study the effects of uniaxial strains on the transport properties of the graphene nanoribbons(GNRs) connected with two metallic leads in heterojunctions, using the transfer matrix method. Two typical GNRs with zigzag and armchair…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jing Wang , Guiping Zhang , Fei Ye , Xiaoqun Wang

The interaction between a graphene layer and a hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) substrate induces lateral displacements and strains in the graphene layer. The displacements lead to the appearance of commensurate regions and the existence of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-05 Pablo San-Jose , Ángel Gutiérrez , Mauricio Sturla , Francisco Guinea

The electronic properties of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) can be dramatically different from those of a single graphene layer, in particular when the two layers are rotated relative to each other by a small angle. TBG has recently…

We report low-temperature measurements of two adjacent, gate-defined Josephson junctions (JJs) in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) at a moir\'e filling factor near $\nu = -2$. We show that both junctions exhibit a prominent,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 A. Rothstein , R. J. Dolleman , L. Klebl , A. Achtermann , F. Volmer , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , F. Hassler , L. Banszerus , B. Beschoten , C. Stampfer

Several recent works have proposed that electron-electron interactions in bilayer graphene can be tuned with the help of external parameters, making it possible to stabilize different fractional quantum Hall states. In these prior works,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-05-31 Kyrylo Snizhko , Vadim Cheianov , Steven H. Simon

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

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

In the half-filled zero-energy Landau level of bilayer graphene, competing phases with spontaneously broken symmetries and an intriguing quantum critical behavior have been predicted. Here we investigate signatures of these broken-symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 Falko Pientka , Jonah Waissman , Philip Kim , Bertrand I. Halperin

We investigate the effects of uniaxial strain on the transport properties of vertical devices made of two twisted graphene layers, which partially overlap each other. We find that because of the different orientations of the two graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-26 Viet Hung Nguyen , Huy-Viet Nguyen , Jerome Saint Martin , Philippe Dollfus

AB-stacked bilayer graphene has emerged as a fascinating yet simple platform for exploring macroscopic quantum phenomena of correlated electrons. Unexpectedly, a phase with negative dR/dT has recently been observed when a large electric…

We study the effects of spin orbit interactions on the low energy electronic structure of a single plane of graphene. We find that in an experimentally accessible low temperature regime the symmetry allowed spin orbit potential converts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. L. Kane , E. J. Mele