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Two-dimensional systems with flat bands support correlated phases such as superconductivity and charge fractionalization. While twisted moire systems like twisted bilayer graphene have revealed such states, they remain complex to control.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 Elias Andrade , Alejandro Jimeno-Pozo , Pierre A. Pantaleon , Francisco Guinea , Gerardo G. Naumis

Diverse emergent correlated electron phenomena have been observed in twisted graphene layers due to electronic interactions with the moir\'e superlattice potential. Many electronic structure predictions have been reported exploring this new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-29 J. E. Nunn , A. McEllistrim , A. Weston , A. Garcia-Ruiz , M. D. Watson , M. Mucha-Kruczynski , C. Cacho , R. Gorbachev , V. I. Fal'ko , N. R. Wilson

Trilayer graphene with a twisted middle layer has recently emerged as a new platform exhibiting correlated phases and superconductivity near its magic angle. A detailed characterization of its electronic structure in the parameter space of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Jiseon Shin , Bheema Lingam Chittari , Jeil Jung

We construct a van der Waals heterostructure consisting of three graphene layers stacked with alternating twisting angles $\pm\theta$. At the average twist angle $\theta\sim 1.56^{\circ}$, a theoretically predicted magic angle for the…

We show that the valley Chern number of the low energy band in twisted double bilayer graphene can be tuned through two successive topological transitions, where the direct bandgap closes, by changing the electric field perpendicular to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Priyanka Mohan , Unmesh Ghorai , Rajdeep Sensarma

The recent discovery of correlated insulator states and superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has paved the way to the experimental investigation of electronic correlations in tunable flat band systems realized in…

Flat bands in moir\'e systems are exciting new playgrounds for the generation and study of exotic many-body physics phenomena in low-dimensional materials. Such physics is attributed to the vanishing kinetic energy and strong spatial…

The electronic band structure of ABC-stacked multilayer graphene is studied within an effective mass approximation. The electron and hole bands touching at zero energy support chiral quasiparticles characterized by Berry's phase N pi for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Mikito Koshino , Edward McCann

We study trilayer graphene arranged in a staircase stacking configuration with equal consecutive twist angle. On top of the moir\'e cristalline pattern, a supermoir\'e long-wavelength modulation emerges that we treat adiabatically. For each…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-08 Daniele Guerci , Yuncheng Mao , Christophe Mora

Chirally stacked N-layer graphene systems with N >= 2 exhibit a variety of distinct broken symmetry states in which charge density contributions from different spins and valleys are spontaneously transferred between layers. We explain how…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-07-02 Fan Zhang , Jeil Jung , Gregory A. Fiete , Qian Niu , Allan H. MacDonald

Twisted Bilayer Graphene at the magic twist angle features flat energy bands, which lead to superconductivity and strong correlation physics. These unique properties are typically limited to a narrow range of twist angles around the magic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-20 Or Katz , Gil Refael , Netanel H. Lindner

We derive the exact insulator ground states of the projected Hamiltonian of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) flat bands with Coulomb interactions in various limits, and study the perturbations away from these limits. We define the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-29 Biao Lian , Zhi-Da Song , Nicolas Regnault , Dmitri K. Efetov , Ali Yazdani , B. Andrei Bernevig

The honeycomb lattice sets the basic arena for numerous ideas to implement electronic, photonic, or phononic topological bands in (meta-)materials. Novel opportunities to manipulate Dirac electrons in graphene through band engineering arise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 Tobias M. R. Wolf , Oded Zilberberg , Ivan Levkivkskyi , Gianni Blatter

At magic twisted angles, Dirac cones in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) can evolve into flat bands, serving as a critical playground for the study of strongly correlated physics. When chiral symmetry is introduced, rigorous mathematical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-11 Fan Cui , Congcong Le , Qiang Zhang , Xianxin Wu , Jiangping Hu , Ching-Kai Chiu

Studies of twisted moir\'e systems have been mainly focused on two-dimensional (2D) materials such as graphene with Dirac points and transition-metal-dichalcogenide so far. Here we propose a twisted bilayer of 2D systems which feature…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-27 Ming-Rui Li , Ai-Lei He , Hong Yao

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 (TBG) has been experimentally observed to exhibit almost flat bands when the twisting occurs at certain magic angles. In this letter, we report new results on the continuum model of twisted bilayer graphene and its…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-21 Simon Becker , Mark Embree , Jens Wittsten , Maciej Zworski

We apply cluster dynamical mean field theory with an exact-diagonalization impurity solver to a Hubbard model for magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene, built on the tight-binding model proposed by Kang and Vafek (2018), which applies to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-21 B. Pahlevanzadeh , P. Sahebsara , D. Sénéchal

Since the lattices of ABA-stacked graphene multilayers with an even number of layers, as well as that of monolayer graphene, satisfy spatial-inversion symmetry, their electronic bands must be spin degenerate in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Edward McCann , Mikito Koshino

In this review, we present recent works on materials whose common point is the presence of electronic bands of very low dispersion, called "flat bands", which are due to specific atomic order effects without electron interactions. These…