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Chern insulators are topologically non-trivial states of matter characterized by incompressible bulk and chiral edge states. Incorporating topological Chern bands with strong electronic correlations provides a versatile playground for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-14 Qianying Hu , Shu Liang , Xinheng Li , Hao Shi , Xi Dai , Yang Xu

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) has been studied extensively owing to its wealth of symmetry-broken phases, correlated Chern insulators, orbital magnetism, and superconductivity. In particular, the anomalous Hall effect (AHE)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Chun-Chih Tseng , Xuetao Ma , Zhaoyu Liu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jiun-Haw Chu , Matthew Yankowitz

Magic-Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene shows a wide range of correlated phases which are electrostatically tunable. Despite a growing knowledge of the material, there is yet no consensus on the microscopic mechanisms driving its…

We present a combined experimental and theoretical study of twisted double bilayer graphene with twist angles between 1{\deg} and 1.35{\deg}. Consistent with moir\'e band structure calculations, we observe insulators at integer moir\'e band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-25 G. William Burg , Jihang Zhu , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Allan H. MacDonald , Emanuel Tutuc

The magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBLG) has been demonstrated to exhibit exotic physical properties due to the special flat bands. However, exploiting the engineering of such properties by external fields is still in it infancy.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-07 Thi-Nga Do , Po-Hsin Shih , Godrey Gumbs

The ground states of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) at chiral and flat-band limit with integer fillings are known from exact solutions, while their dynamical and thermodynamical properties are revealed by unbiased quantum Monte Carlo (QMC)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-15 Cheng Huang , Xu Zhang , Gaopei Pan , Heqiu Li , Kai Sun , Xi Dai , Ziyang Meng

Recently, signatures of quantum anomalous Hall states with spontaneous ferromagnetism were observed in twisted bilayer graphenes (TBGs) near 3/4 filling [1, 2]. Importantly, it was demon-strated that an extremely small current can switch…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-06 Wen-Yu He , David Goldhaber-Gordon , K. T. Law

We study the stability and electronic structure of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene on the hexagonal boron nitride (TBG/BN). Full relaxation has been performed for commensurate supercells of the heterostructures with different twist…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-20 Xianqing Lin , Kelu Su , Jun Ni

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) with interlayer twist angles near the magic angle $\approx 1.08^{\circ}$ hosts flat bands and exhibits correlated states including Mott-like insulators, superconductivity and magnetism. Here we report combined…

Motivated by the higher Chern bands of twisted graphene multilayers, we consider flat bands with arbitrary Chern number $C$ with ideal quantum geometry. While $C>1$ bands differ from Landau levels, we show that these bands host exact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-25 Junkai Dong , Patrick J. Ledwith , Eslam Khalaf , Jong Yeon Lee , Ashvin Vishwanath

Using non-perturbative theoretical method, we address the problem of strong correlations in twisted bilayer-layer graphene at the magic angle. We concentrate on the solution without symmetry breaking, where conventional Mott insulating…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-29 M. Haule , E. Y. Andrei , K. Haule

At a discrete set of magic angles, twisted bilayer graphene has been shown to host extraordinarily flat bands, correlated insulating states, unconventional superconductivity, and distinct Landau level degeneracies. In this work, we design a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Ayush Singh , Colin Benjamin

Electrons in moir\'e flat band systems can spontaneously break time reversal symmetry, giving rise to a quantized anomalous Hall effect. Here we use a superconducting quantum interference device to image stray magnetic fields in one such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 C. L. Tschirhart , M. Serlin , H. Polshyn , A. Shragai , Z. Xia , J. Zhu , Y. Zhang , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , M. E. Huber , A. F. Young

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

The chiral Hamiltonian for twisted graphene bilayers is written as a $2\times2$ matrix operator by a renormalization of the Hamiltonian that takes into account the particle-hole symmetry. This results in an effective Hamiltonian with an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 Gerardo G. Naumis , Leonardo A. Navarro-Labastida , Enrique Aguilar-Méndez , Abdiel Espinosa-Champo

In the magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MA-TBG), strong electron-electron (e-e) correlations caused by the band-flattening lead to many exotic quantum phases such as superconductivity, correlated insulator, ferromagnetism, and quantum…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-29 Ya-Ning Ren , Chen Lu , Yu Zhang , Si-Yu Li , Yi-Wen Liu , Chao Yan , Zi-Han Guo , Cheng-Cheng Liu , Fan Yang , Lin He

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has recently become a thriving material platform realizing correlated electron phenomena taking place within its topological flat bands. Several numerical and analytical methods have been applied to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-17 Bin-Bin Chen , Yuan Da Liao , Ziyu Chen , Oskar Vafek , Jian Kang , Wei Li , Zi Yang Meng

At a certain "magic" relative twist angle of two graphene sheets it remains a challenge to obtain a detailed description of the proliferation of correlated topological electronic phases and their filling-dependence. We perform a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-10 Clara N. Breiø , Brian M. Andersen

We investigate correlated insulating states in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) by the exact diagonalization method applied to the extended Hubbard model with interaction parameters recently evaluated in the realistic effective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-08 Masayuki Ochi , Mikito Koshino , Kazuhiko Kuroki

The discovery of superconducting and insulating states in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) has ignited considerable interest in understanding the nature of electronic interactions in this chemically pristine material system. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-02 Yonglong Xie , Biao Lian , Berthold Jäck , Xiaomeng Liu , Cheng-Li Chiu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , B. Andrei Bernevig , Ali Yazdani