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By virtue of being atomically thin, the electronic properties of heterostructures built from two-dimensional materials are strongly influenced by atomic relaxation. The atomic layers behave as flexible membranes rather than rigid crystals.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-07 Mohammed M. Al Ezzi , Gayani N. Pallewela , Christophe De Beule , E. J. Mele , Shaffique Adam

Rotational misalignment or twisting of two mono-layers of graphene strongly influences its electronic properties. Structurally, twisting leads to large periodic supercell structures, which in turn can support intriguing strongly correlated…

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) exhibits a wide range of intriguing physical properties, such as superconductivity, ferromagnetism, and superlubricity. Depending on the twist angle, periodic moir\'e superlattices form in twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Vahid Morovati , Zhiming Xue , Kenneth M. Liechti , Rui Huang

The effects of the long range electrostatic interaction in twisted bilayer graphene are described using the Hartree-Fock approximation. The results show a significant dependence of the band widths and shapes on electron filling, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-29 Tommaso Cea , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Niels R. Walet , Francisco Guinea

We introduce twisted trilayer graphene (tTLG) with two independent twist angles as an ideal system for the precise tuning of the electronic interlayer coupling to maximize the effect of correlated behaviors. As established by experiment and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-12 Ziyan Zhu , Stephen Carr , Daniel Massatt , Mitchell Luskin , Efthimios Kaxiras

This work theoretically explores how to emulate twisted double bilayer graphene with ultracold atoms in multiorbital optical lattices. In particular, the quadratic band touching of Bernal stacked bilayer graphene is emulated using a square…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-12-28 Junhyun Lee , J. H. Pixley

Moir\'e superlattice in twisted bilayer graphene has been proven to be a versatile platform for exploring exotic quantum phases. Extensive investigations have been invoked focusing on the zero-magnetic-field phase diagram at the magic twist…

If we stack up two layers of graphene while changing their respective orientation by some twisting angle, we end up with a system that has striking differences when compared to single-layer graphene. For a very specific value of this twist…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-18 Eduardo B. Molinero , Anushree Datta , María J. Calderón , Elena Bascones , Rui E. F. Silva

We show that characteristics of the electron's form factor in two-dimensional materials are observable in quasiparticle interference (QPI) spectrum. We study QPI in twisted bilayer graphene using real-space tight-binding calculations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 D. -H. -Minh Nguyen , Francisco Guinea , Dario Bercioux

Ultraflat bands have already been detected in twisted bilayer graphene and twisted bilayer transition-metal dichalcogenides, which provide a platform to investigate strong correlations. In this paper, the electronic properties of twisted…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-05 Yonggang Li , Zhen Zhan , Shengjun Yuan

The electronic bands of twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) with a large-period moir\'e superlattice fracture to form narrow Bloch minibands that are spectrally isolated by forbidden energy gaps from remote dispersive bands. When these gaps are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Vo Tien Phong , E. J. Mele

We compute the phase diagram of twisted bilayer graphene near the magic angle where the occurrence of flat bands enhances the effects of electron-electron interactions and thus unleashes strongly-correlated phenomena. Most importantly, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-26 Dante M. Kennes , Johannes Lischner , Christoph Karrasch

The microscopic pairing mechanism for superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene remains an open question. Recent experimental studies seem to rule out a purely electronic mechanism due to the insensitivity of the critical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-19 Liangtao Peng , Indra Yudhistira , Giovanni Vignale , Shaffique Adam

We present a multi-scale density functional theory (DFT) informed molecular dynamics and tight-binding (TB) approach to capture the interdependent atomic and electronic structures of twisted bilayer graphene. We calibrate the flat band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-17 Nicolas Leconte , Srivani Javvaji , Jiaqi An , Appalakondaiah Samudrala , Jeil Jung

We theoretically study the electronic structure of small-angle twisted bilayer graphene with a large potential asymmetry between the top and bottom layers. We show that the emergent helical states known to appear on the triangular AB-BA…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Bonnie Tsim , Nguyen N. T. Nam , Mikito Koshino

We introduce a novel two-dimensional electronic system with ultrastrong interlayer interactions, namely twisted bilayer graphene with a large twist angle, as an ideal ground for realizing interlayer-coherent excitonic condensates. In these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Dohun Kim , Byungmin Kang , Yong-Bin Choi , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Gil-Ho Lee , Gil Young Cho , Youngwook Kim

The rich physics of magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) results from the Coulomb interactions of electrons in flat bands of non-trivial topology. While the bands' dispersion is well characterized, accessing their topology remains an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 F. Mesple , P. Mallet , G. Trambly de Laissardière , C. Dutreix , G. Lapertot , J-Y. Veuillen , V. T. Renard

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

Atomic-scale engineering typically involves bottom-up approaches, leveraging parameters such as temperature, partial pressures, and chemical affinity to promote spontaneous arrangement of atoms. These parameters are applied globally,…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-13 Ondrej Dyck , Sinchul Yeom , Andrew R. Lupini , Jacob L. Swett , Dale Hensley , Mina Yoon , Stephen Jesse

This paper investigates the mathematical properties of independent-electron models for twisted bilayer graphene by examining the density-of-states of corresponding single-particle Hamiltonians using tools from semiclassical analysis. This…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Eric Cancès , Long Meng