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The transport properties of a twisted bilayer graphene barrier are investigated for various twist angles. Remarkably, for small twist angles around the magic angle $\theta_m \sim 1.05^{\circ}$, the local currents around the AA-stacked…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-28 D. A. Bahamon , G. Gómez-Santos , T. Stauber

Motivated by the recent observation of correlated insulator states and unconventional superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene, we study the dependence of electron correlations on the twist angle and reveal the existence of strong…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-18 Zachary A. H. Goodwin , Fabiano Corsetti , Arash A. Mostofi , Johannes Lischner

Moir\'e superlattices in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures provide 20 an efficient way to engineer electron band properties. The recent discovery of exotic quantum phases and their interplay in twisted bilayer…

Understanding and tuning correlated states is of great interest and significance to modern condensed matter physics. The recent discovery of unconventional superconductivity and Mott-like insulating states in magic-angle twisted bilayer…

We investigate twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG), a four-layer system composed of two AB-stacked graphene bilayers rotated with respect to each other by a small angle. Our ab initio band structure calculations reveal a considerable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Fatemeh Haddadi , QuanSheng Wu , Alex J. Kruchkov , Oleg V. Yazyev

We study the electronic properties of a twisted trilayer graphene, where two of the layers have Bernal stacking and the third one has a relative rotation with respect to the AB-stacked layers. Near the Dirac point, the AB-twisted trilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 E. Suárez Morell , M. Pacheco , L. Chico , L. Brey

Very recently, unconventional superconductivity has been observed in the double twisted trilayer graphene (TLG), where three monolayer graphene (MLG) are stacked on top of each other with two twist angles [J. M. Park, et al., Nature 590,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Miao Liang , Meng-Meng Xiao , Zhen Ma , Jin-Hua Gao

When two sheets of graphene stack in a twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) configuration, the resulting constrained overlap between interplanar 2p orbitals produce angle-tunable electronic absorption resonances. Using a novel combination of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-13 Hiral Patel , Lola Brown , Yufeng Liang , Li Yang , Jiwoong Park , Matt W. Graham

The structural and electronic properties of twisted bilayer graphene are investigated from first principles and tight binding approach as a function of the twist angle (ranging from the first "magic" angle $\theta=1.08^\circ$ to…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-28 G. Cantele , D. Alfè , F. Conte , V. Cataudella , D. Ninno , P. Lucignano

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) near "magic angles" has emerged as a rich platform for strongly correlated states of two-dimensional Dirac semimetals. Here we show that twisted bilayers of thin-film magnetic topological insulators (MTI) with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Gaurav Chaudhary , Anton A. Burkov , Olle G. Heinonen

Recently twisted bilayer graphene (t-BLG) emerges as a new strongly correlated physical platform near a magic twist angle, which hosts many exciting phenomena such as the Mott-like insulating phases, unconventional superconducting behavior…

We formulate a low energy effective Hamiltonian to study superlattices in bilayer graphene (BLG) using a minimal model which supports quadratic band touching points. We show that a one dimensional (1D) periodic modulation of the chemical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-23 Matthew Killi , Si Wu , Arun Paramekanti

Recent experimental and theoretical investigations demonstrate that twisted trilayer graphene (tTLG) is a highly tunable platform to study the correlated insulating states, ferromagnetism, and superconducting properties. Here we explore the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Zewen Wu , Xueheng Kuang , Zhen Zhan , Shengjun Yuan

Magic-angle ($\theta=1.05^\circ$) twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) has shown two seemingly contradictory characters: the localization and quantum-dot-like behavior in STM experiments, and delocalization in transport experiments. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-12 Zhi-Da Song , B. Andrei Bernevig

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MA-tBLG) has appeared as a tunable testing ground to investigate the conspiracy of electronic interactions, band structure, and lattice degrees of freedom to yield exotic quantum many-body ground states…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-09 J. M. Pizarro , M. Rösner , R. Thomale , R. Valentí , T. O. Wehling

Electronic structures and their Landau quantizations in twisted graphene bilayer and trilayer are investigated using scanning tunnelling microscopy and spectroscopy. In the twisted trilayer, the top graphene layer and second layer are AB…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-09 Long-Jing Yin , Jia-Bin Qiao , Wei Yan , Rui Xu , Rui-Fen Dou , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He

Twisted Bilayer graphene (TBG) is known to feature isolated and relatively flat bands near charge neutrality, when tuned to special magic angles. However, different criteria for the magic angle such as the vanishing of Dirac speed, minimal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-27 Grigory Tarnopolsky , Alex J. Kruchkov , Ashvin Vishwanath

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

We calculate the electronic structure of AA'AA'...-stacked alternating twist N-layer (tNG) graphene for N = 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 20 layers and bulk alternating twist (AT) graphite systems where the lattice relaxations are modeled by means of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Nicolas Leconte , Youngju Park , Jiaqi An , Appalakondaiah Samudrala , Jeil Jung

We construct a heavy fermion representation for twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) systems. Two local orbitals (per spin/valley) are analytically found, which are exactly the maximally localized zero modes of the continuum Hamiltonian near the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-20 Hao Shi , Xi Dai
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