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A low twist angle between the two stacked crystal networks in bilayer graphene enables self-organized lattice reconstruction with the formation of a periodic domain. This superlattice modulates the vibrational and electronic structures,…

Despite much theoretical work, developing a comprehensive ab initio model for twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) has proven challenging due to the inherent trade-off between accurately describing the band structure and incorporating the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-25 Run Hou , Shouvik Sur , Lucas K. Wagner , Andriy H. Nevidomskyy

Divergent density of states offers the unique opportunity to explore a wide variety of correlated electron physics. In the thinnest limit, this has been predicted and verified in the ultra-flat bands of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-15 Anna M. Seiler , Fabian R. Geisenhof , Felix Winterer , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Tianyi Xu , Fan Zhang , R. Thomas Weitz

Staking layered materials revealed to be a very powerful method to tailor their electronic properties. It has indeed been theoretically and experimentally shown that twisted bilayers of graphene (tBLG) with a rotation angle $\theta$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Omid Faizy Namarvar , Ahmed Missaoui , Laurence Magaud , Didier Mayou , Guy Trambly de Laissardière

A detailed understanding of interacting electrons in twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) near the magic angle is required to gain insights into the physical origin of the observed broken symmetry phases. Here, we present extensive atomistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-02 Zachary A. H. Goodwin , Valerio Vitale , Xia Liang , Arash A. Mostofi , Johannes Lischner

We study the localization properties of electrons in incommensurate twisted bilayer graphene for small angles, encompassing the narrow-band regime, by numerically exact means. Sub-ballistic states are found within the narrow-band region…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-08 Miguel Gonçalves , Hadi Z. Olyaei , Bruno Amorim , Rubem Mondaini , Pedro Ribeiro , Eduardo V. Castro

We determine the optical properties of gated bilayer graphene quantum dots with trigonal warping (TW) of single-particle energy spectra. The lateral structure of metallic gates confines electrons and holes in a quantum dot (QD)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Matthew Albert , Daniel Miravet , Yasser Saleem , Katarzyna Sadecka , Marek Korkusinski , Gabriel Bester , Pawel Hawrylak

Recent exploration of the commensurate structure in the turbostratic double layer graphene shows that the large angle twisting can be treated by the decrease of the effective velocity within the energy spectra of the single layer graphene.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Jozef Bucko , František Herman

Bilayer graphene twisted by a small angle shows a significant charge modulation away from neutrality, as the charge in the narrow bands near the Dirac point is mostly localized in the regions of the Moir\'e pattern with $AA$ stacking. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-13 Francisco Guinea , Niels R. Walet

In this article, we analyze the quantum and topological properties of graphene-based plasmonic systems. We consider the following plasmonic materials: single-layer graphene, twisted bilayer graphene, and other graphene stackings, as well as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 A. Octávio Soares , Nuno M. R. Peres

The ability to effectively guide electromagnetic radiation below the diffraction limit is of the utmost importance in the prospect of all-optical plasmonic circuitry. Here, we propose an alternative solution to conventional metal-based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-28 P. A. D. Gonçalves , E. J. C. Dias , Sanshui Xiao , M. I. Vasilevskiy , N. Asger Mortensen , N. M. R. Peres

We develop an effective extended Hubbard model to describe the low-energy electronic properties of the twisted bilayer graphene. By using the Bloch states in the effective continuum model and with the aid of the maximally localized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-03 Mikito Koshino , Noah F. Q. Yuan , Takashi Koretsune , Masayuki Ochi , Kazuhiko Kuroki , Liang Fu

We provide a systematic real space derivation of the continuum Hamiltonian for a graphene bilayer starting from a microscopic lattice theory, allowing for an arbitrary inhomogeneous smooth lattice deformation, including a twist. Two…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-24 Oskar Vafek , Jian Kang

Proximity effects resulting from depositing a graphene layer on a TMD substrate layer change the dynamics of the electronic states in graphene, inducing spin orbit coupling (SOC) and staggered potential effects. An effective Hamiltonian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Abdulrhman M. Alsharari , Mahmoud M. Asmar , Sergio E. Ulloa

Moir\'e materials, and in particular twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), exhibit a range of fascinating phenomena, that emerge from the interplay of band topology and interactions. We show that the non-linear second-order photoresponse is an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Swati Chaudhary , Cyprian Lewandowski , Gil Refael

Observation of strong correlations and superconductivity in twisted-bilayer-graphene have stimulated tremendous interest in fundamental and applied physics. In this system, the superposition of two twisted honeycomb lattices, generating a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-03-14 Zengming Meng , Liangwei Wang , Wei Han , Fangde Liu , Kai Wen , Chao Gao , Pengjun Wang , Cheng Chin , Jing Zhang

We discuss plasmons of biased twisted bilayer graphene when the Fermi level lies inside the gap. The collective excitations are a network of chiral edge plasmons (CEP) entirely composed of excitations in the topological electronic edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Luis Brey , T. Stauber , T. Slipchenko , L. Martín-Moreno

Twistronic has recently attracted tremendous attention because the twisting can engineer the bilayer graphene-like materials into varying types of strongly correlated phases. In this paper, we study the twisting of bilayer graphene (BLG)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-25 Ma Luo

Electronic properties of quantum dots (QDs) depend sensitively on their parent materials. Therefore, confined electronic states in graphene QDs (GQDs) of monolayer and Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene are quite different. Twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Xiao-Feng Zhou , Yi-Wen Liu , Hong-Yi Yan , Zhong-Qiu Fu , Haiwen Liu , Lin He

Stacking two layers of graphene with a relative twist angle gives rise to moir\'e patterns, which can strongly modify electronic behavior and may lead to unconventional superconductivity. A synthetic version of twisted bilayers can be…