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We show that the twisted graphene bilayer can reveal unusual topological properties at low energies, as a consequence of a Dirac-point splitting. These features rely on a symmetry analysis of the electron hopping between the two layers of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-21 R. de Gail , M. O. Goerbig , F. Guinea , G. Montambaux , A. H. Castro Neto

Turbostratic multilayer graphene, composed of randomly twisted and stacked graphene sheets, offers a naturally disordered yet tunable platform for exploring moir\'e physics beyond tedious artificial stacking. Using scanning tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Mona Garg , Ankit Kumar , Deepti Rana , Anmol Arya , Aswini R , Umesh Waghmare , G. U. Kulkarni , Goutam Sheet

In the vicinity of the magic angle in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), the two low-energy van Hove singularities (VHSs) become exceedingly narrow1-10 and many exotic correlated states, such as superconductivity, ferromagnetism, and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-25 Yu Zhang , Zhe Hou , Ya-Xin Zhao , Zi-Han Guo , Yi-Wen Liu , Si-Yu Li , Ya-Ning Ren , Qing-Feng Sun , Lin He

The emergence of flat bands in twisted bilayer graphene leads to an enhancement of interaction effects, and thus to insulating and superconducting phases at low temperatures, even though the exact mechanism is still widely debated. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-15 Tommaso Cea , Niels R. Walet , Francisco Guinea

We report on the interplay between a van Hove singularity and a charge density wave state in 2H-TaSe$_{2}$. We use angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy to investigate changes in the Fermi surface of this material under surface doping…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-19 W. R. B. Luckin , Y. Li , J. Jiang , S. M. Gunasekera , C. Wen , Y. Zhang , D. Prabhakaran , F. Flicker , Y. Chen , M. Mucha-Kruczynski

Motivated by recent discovery of correlated insulating and superconducting behavior in twisted bilayer graphene, we revisit graphene's honeycomb lattice doped close to the van Hove singularity, using the truncated unity functional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-20 Song-Jin O , Yong-Hwan Kim , Ok-Gyong Pak , Kum-Hyok Jong , Chol-Won Ri , Hak-Chol Pak

Starting with twisted bilayer graphene, graphene-based moir\'e materials have recently been established as a new platform for studying strong electron correlations. In this paper, we study twisted graphene monolayers on trilayer graphene…

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

Motivated by measurements of compressibility and STM spectra in twisted bilayer graphene, we analyze the pattern of symmetry breaking for itinerant fermions near a van Hove singularity. Making use of an approximate SU(4) symmetry of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-08 Dmitry V. Chichinadze , Laura Classen , Yuxuan Wang , Andrey V. Chubukov

We propose helical trilayer graphene (HTG), a helical structure featuring identical rotation angles $\theta\approx 1.5^\circ$ between three consecutive layers of graphene, as a unique and experimentally accessible platform for realizing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-11 Trithep Devakul , Patrick J. Ledwith , Li-Qiao Xia , Aviram Uri , Sergio de la Barrera , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Liang Fu

The discovery of magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene (tTLG) adds a new twist to the family of graphene moir\'e. The additional graphene layer unlocks a series of intriguing properties in the superconducting phase, such as the violation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-05 Xiaoxue Liu , Naiyuan James Zhang , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , J. I. A. Li

Helical twisted trilayer graphene exhibits zero-energy flat bands with large degeneracy in the chiral limit. The flat bands emerge at a discrete set of magic twist angles and feature properties intrinsically distinct from those realized in…

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

Superconductivity (SC) in twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) has been explored by varying carrier concentrations, twist angles, and screening strength, with the aim of uncovering its origin and possible connections to strong electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-13 Ranit Dutta , Ayan Ghosh , Shinjan Mandal , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , H. R. Krishnamurthy , Sumilan Banerjee , Manish Jain , Anindya Das

This study theoretically investigates the contact conductance in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), providing a theoretical explanation for recent experimental observations from scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and conductive atomic force…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-30 Kevin J. U. Vidarte , Caio Lewenkopf , F. Crasto de Lima , R. Hiroki Miwa , Felipe Pérez Riffo , Eric Suárez Morell

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and electron-electron interaction can mutually influence each other and give rise to a plethora of intriguing phenomena in condensed matter systems. In pristine bilayer graphene, which has weak SOC, intrinsic…

The assembling of twisted stacks of van der Waals (vdW) materials had led to the discovery of a profusion of remarkable physical phenomena in recent years, as it provides a means to accurately control and harness electronic band structures.…

We model the newly synthesized magic-angle twisted bilayer-graphene superconductor with two $p_{x,y}$-like Wannier orbitals on the superstructure honeycomb lattice, where the hopping integrals are constructed via the Slater-Koster formulism…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-11-28 Cheng-Cheng Liu , Li-Da Zhang , Wei-Qiang Chen , Fan Yang

Experiments on twisted double bilayer tungsten diselenide have demonstrated that moir'e semiconductors can realize a relativistic Mott transition, i.e., a quantum phase transition from a Dirac semimetal to a correlated insulating state, by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Bilal Hawashin , Julian Kleeschulte , David Kurz , Aiman Al-Eryani , Michael M. Scherer

We observe that H$_3$S has a bcc structure and, with nearest neighbour hopping only, a strong singularity occurs at zero energy. This singularity is accompanied with a highly nested Fermi surface, which is {\it not} conducive to a stable…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-01-09 Thiago X. R. Souza , F. Marsiglio

We study quantum phase transitions in graphene superlattices in external magnetic fields, where a framework is presented to classify multiflavor Dirac fermion critical points describing hopping tuned topological phase transitions of integer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-11 Jian Wang , Luiz H. Santos