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Recent measurements in several different laboratories report the observation of an approximately linear-in-temperature resistivity with a large twist-angle-dependent slope (or temperature coefficient) in moir\'e twisted bilayer graphene…

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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…

Electron interactions in quantum materials fundamentally shape their energy bands and, with them, the material's most intriguing quantum phases. Magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) has emerged as a model system, where flat bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 J. Xiao , A. Inbar , J. Birkbeck , N. Gershon , Y. Zamir , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , E. Berg , S. Ilani

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) has attracted significant interest recently due to the discoveries of diverse correlated and topological states in this system. Despite the extensive research on the electron-electron interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-13 Xiaoqian Liu , Ran Peng , Zhaoru Sun , Jianpeng Liu

Motivated by recent experiments probing the wavefunctions of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG), we perform large-scale first-principles calculations of tBLG with full atomic relaxation across a wide range of twist angles down to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Albert Zhu , Daniel Bennett , Daniel T. Larson , Mohammed M. Al Ezzi , Efstratios Manousakis , Efthimios Kaxiras

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…

We study the effect of electron-acoustic phonon interactions in twisted bilayer graphene on resistivity in the high-temperature transport and superconductivity in the low-temperature phase diagram. We theoretically show that twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Fengcheng Wu , Euyheon Hwang , Sankar Das Sarma

Flat electronic bands, characteristic of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), host a wealth of correlated phenomena. Early theoretical considerations suggested that, at the magic angle, the Dirac velocity vanishes and the entire…

We have carried out a theoretical investigation of hot electron power loss $P$, involving electron-acoustic phonon interaction, as a function of twist angle $\theta$, electron temperature $T_e$ and electron density $n_s$ in twisted bilayer…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-27 S. S. Kubakaddi

Thermoelectric measurements have the potential to uncover the density of states of low-dimensional materials. Here, we present the anomalous thermoelectric behaviour of mono-layer graphene-nanowire (NW) heterostructures, showing large…

Bilayer graphene twisted at the angle of about 1.1{\deg} better known as magic angle, exhibits ultra-flat moir\'e superlattice bands that are a source of highly-tunable, exotic quantum phenomena. Such phenomena, like superconductivity,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-05 Giovanna Feraco , Wissem Boubaker , Petra Rudolf , Antonija Grubišić-Čabo

We report on realization and quantum transport study of a twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) Josephson junction device. High-quality tBLG employed in the device fabrication is obtained via chemical vapour deposition and the device is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-06 Dingran Rui , Luzhao Sun , N. Kang , Hailin Peng , Zhongfan Liu , H. Q. Xu

We study the electron-phonon coupling in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), which was recently experimentally observed to exhibit superconductivity around the magic twist angle $\theta\approx 1.05^\circ$. We show that phonon-mediated electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Biao Lian , Zhijun Wang , B. Andrei Bernevig

Moir\'e superlattices that consist of two or more layers of two-dimensional materials stacked together with a small twist angle have emerged as a tunable platform to realize various correlated and topological phases, such as Mott…

We report a local minimum in thermal conductivity in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) at the angle of 1.08$^\circ$, which corresponds to the 'magic angle' in the transition of several other reported properties. Within the supercell of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Yajuan Cheng , Zheyong Fan , Tao Zhang , Masahiro Nomura , Sebastian Volz , Guimei Zhu , Baowen Li , Shiyun Xiong

For the unconventional superconducting phases in moire materials, a critical question is the role played by electronic interactions in the formation of Cooper pairs. In twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG), the strength of electronic…

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

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) near the magic twist angle of $\sim1.1^{o}$ exhibits a rich phase diagram. However, the interplay between different phases and their dependence on twist angle is still elusive. Here, we explore the stability…

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) exhibits a rich variety of electronic states, including correlated insulators, superconductors, and topological phases. Understanding the microscopic mechanisms responsible for these phases…

Bilayer graphene was theorized to host a moire miniband with flat dispersion if the layers are stacked at specific twist angles known as the magic angles. Recently, such twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) with the first magic angle twist was…