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Moir\'e superlattices have emerged as a versatile platform for exploring a wide range of ex- otic quantum phenomena. Unlike angstrom-scale materials, the moir\'e length-scale system contains a large number of atoms, and its electronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-10 Xueheng Kuang , Federico Escudero , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Francisco Guinea , Zhen Zhan

A remarkable feature of the band structure of bilayer graphene at small twist angle is the appearance of isolated bands near neutrality, whose bandwidth can be reduced at certain magic angles (eg. $\theta\sim 1.05^\circ$). In this regime,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-30 Liujun Zou , Hoi Chun Po , Ashvin Vishwanath , T. Senthil

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…

Twisted bilayers of two-dimensional materials, such as twisted bilayer graphene, often feature flat electronic bands that enable the observation of electron correlation effects. In this work, we study the electronic structure of twisted…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-18 Valerio Vitale , Kemal Atalar , Arash A. Mostofi , Johannes Lischner

Moir\'e structures formed by twisting three layers of graphene with two independent twist angles present an ideal platform for studying correlated quantum phenomena, as an infinite set of angle pairs is predicted to exhibit flat bands.…

The Bistritzer-MacDonald continuum model (BM model) describes the low-energy moir\'e bands for twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) at small twist angles. We derive a generalized continuum model for TBG near any commensurate twist angle, which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-20 Michael G. Scheer , Kaiyuan Gu , Biao Lian

Recently the small-twist-angle (< 2{\deg}) bilayer graphene has received extraordinary attentions due to its exciting physical properties. Compared with monolayer graphene, the Brillouin zone folding in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) leads…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-24 Bingchen Deng , Chao Ma , Qiyue Wang , Shaofan Yuan , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Fan Zhang , Fengnian Xia

We investigate the topological heavy-fermion (THF) model of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) in the projected limit, where only the flat bands are present in the low-energy spectrum. Such limit has been previously analyzed in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-20 Haoyu Hu , Zhi-Da Song , B. Andrei Bernevig

We study the electronic properties of twisted bilayers graphene in the tight-binding approximation. The interlayer hopping amplitude is modeled by a function, which depends not only on the distance between two carbon atoms, but also on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 A. O. Sboychakov , A. L. Rakhmanov , A. V. Rozhkov , Franco Nori

Ever since the initial experimental observation of correlated insulators and superconductivity in the flat Dirac bands of magic angle twisted bilayer graphene, a search for the microscopic description that explains its strong electronic…

Twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) has emerged as a promising platform to explore exotic electronic phases. However, the formation of moir\'e patterns in tBLG has thus far been confined to the introduction of twist angles between the layers.…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-10 Gabriel R. Schleder , Michele Pizzochero , Efthimios Kaxiras

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

Superlattices from twisted graphene mono- and bi-layer systems give rise to on-demand many-body states such as Mott insulators and unconventional superconductors. These phenomena are ascribed to a combination of flat bands and strong…

We present and discuss in detail practical techniques in formulating effective models to describe the dynamics of low-energy electrons in generic bilayer graphene. Starting from a tight-binding model using the $p_z$ orbital of carbon atoms…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-26 H. Minh Lam , V. Nam Do

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), with rotational misalignment close to 1.1$^\circ$, features isolated flat electronic bands that host a rich phase diagram of correlated insulating, superconducting, ferromagnetic, and topological…

Although the strongly interacting flat bands in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) have been approached using the minimal Bistritzer-MacDonald (BM) Hamiltonian, there is mounting evidence that strain and lattice relaxation are essential in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman , Jiabin Yu , Dumitru Călugăru , Haoyu Hu , Nicolas Regnault , Oskar Vafek , Jian Kang , B. Andrei Bernevig

The recent observation of superconductivity in proximity to an insulating phase in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) at small `magic' twist angles has been linked to the existence of nearly-flat bands, which make TBG a fresh playground to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-12-11 Jörn W. F. Venderbos , Rafael M. Fernandes

We study, within the tight-binding approximation, the electronic properties of a graphene bilayer in the presence of an external electric field applied perpendicular to the system -- \emph{biased bilayer}. The effect of the perpendicular…

Twisted graphene bilayers show a complex electronic structure, further modified by interaction effects. The main features can be obtained from effective models, which make use a few phenomenological parameters. We analyze the influence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-04 Niels R. Walet , Francisco Guinea

The recently demonstrated unconventional superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) opens the possibility for interesting applications of two-dimensional layers that involve correlated electron states. Here we explore the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-30 Stephen Carr , Shiang Fang , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Efthimios Kaxiras