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Here we study the evolution of local electronic properties of a twisted graphene bilayer induced by a strain and a high curvature. The strain and curvature strongly affect the local band structures of the twisted graphene bilayer; the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Wei Yan , Wen-Yu He , Zhao-Dong Chu , Mengxi Liu , Lan Meng , Rui-Fen Dou , Yanfeng Zhang , Zhongfan Liu , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He

At a certain "magic" relative twist angle of two graphene sheets it remains a challenge to obtain a detailed description of the proliferation of correlated topological electronic phases and their filling-dependence. We perform a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-10 Clara N. Breiø , Brian M. Andersen

We present a theoretical investigation of the emergence of chiral topological superconductivity in small-angle twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) and twisted double bilayer graphene (tDBLG). Using the low-energy continuum model and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Kamalesh Bera , Tanay Nag , Arijit Saha

We explore the moir\'e magnon bands in twisted bilayer magnets with next-nearest neighboring Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions, assuming that the out-of-plane collinear magnetic order is preserved under weak interlayer coupling. By…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-07 Yu-Hang Li , Ran Cheng

We show that the valley Chern number of the low energy band in twisted double bilayer graphene can be tuned through two successive topological transitions, where the direct bandgap closes, by changing the electric field perpendicular to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Priyanka Mohan , Unmesh Ghorai , Rajdeep Sensarma

Moir\'e superlattices created by the twisted stacking of two-dimensional crystalline monolayers can host electronic bands with flat energy dispersion in which interaction among electrons is strongly enhanced. These superlattices can also…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 Xiaomeng Liu , Cheng-Li Chiu , Jong Yeon Lee , Gelareh Farahi , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ashvin Vishwanath , Ali Yazdani

Recent experiments have observed possible spin- and valley-polarized insulators and spin-triplet superconductivity in twisted double bilayer graphene, a moire structure consisting of a pair of Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene. Besides the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-12 Yi-Ting Hsu , Fengcheng Wu , S. Das Sarma

A graphene bilayer shows an unusual magnetoelectric response whose magnitude is controlled by the valley-isospin density, making it possible to link magnetoelectric behavior to valleytronics. Complementary to previous studies, we consider…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-19 Michael Kammermeier , Paul Wenk , Ulrich Zülicke

We study the electronic band structure and the topological property of the twisted double bilayer graphene, or a pair of AB-stacked bilayer graphenes rotationally stacked on top of each other. We consider two different arrangements, AB-AB…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-10 Mikito Koshino

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MA-TBG) exhibits intriguing quantum phase transitions triggered by enhanced electron-electron interactions when its flat-bands are partially filled. However, the phases themselves and their connection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 Shuang Wu , Zhenyuan Zhang , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , Eva Y. Andrei

Electronic properties of bilayer graphene are distinct from both the conventional two dimensional electron gas and monolayer graphene due to its particular chiral properties and excitation charge carrier dispersions. We study the effect of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Habib Rostami , Reza Asgari

Compared with twisted bilayer graphene, twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG) provides another important platform to realize the moir\'e flat bands. In this paper, we first calculate the valley Chern number phase diagram of TDBG in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Yi-Xiang Wang , Fuxiang Li , Zi-Yue Zhang

Realizations of some topological phases in two-dimensional systems rely on the challenge of jointly incorporating spin-orbit and magnetic exchange interactions. Here, we predict the formation and control of a fully valley-polarized quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-25 Marc Vila , Jose H. Garcia , Stephan Roche

When one of the graphene layers of Magic Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene is nearly aligned with its hexagonal boron nitride substrate (a configuration dubbed TBG/hBN), the active electronic bands are nearly flat, and have a Chern number…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-25 Cécile Repellin , T. Senthil

Electron-electron interactions play an important role in graphene and related systems and can induce exotic quantum states, especially in a stacked bilayer with a small twist angle. For bilayer graphene where the two layers are twisted by a…

The flat band is a key ingredient for the realization of interesting quantum states for novel functionalities. In this work, we investigate the conditions for the flat band in both monolayer and bilayer graphene under periodic strain. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-09 Xiaohan Wan , Siddhartha Sarkar , Kai Sun , Shi-Zeng Lin

We experimentally investigate the band structures of chirally twisted triple bilayer graphene. The new kind of moir\'e structure, formed by three pieces of helically stacked Bernal bilayer graphene, has flat bands at charge neutral point…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Wenlu Lin , Wenxuan Wang , Shimin Cao , Miao Liang , Lili Zhao , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jinhua Gao , Jianhao Chen , Xiaobo Lu , Yang Liu

The electronic structure of bilayer graphene under pressure develops very interesting features with an enhancement of the trigonal warping and a splitting of the parabolic touching bands at the K point of the reciprocal space into four…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-06 F Munoz , H. P. Ojeda Collado , Gonzalo Usaj , Jorge O. Sofo , C. A. Balseiro

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene is the best studied physical platform featuring moire potential induced narrow bands with non-trivial topology and strong electronic correlations. Despite their significance, the Chern insulating states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Xiaoyu Wang , Oskar Vafek

We reveal a proximity effect between a topological band (Chern) insulator described by a Haldane model and spin-polarized Dirac particles of a graphene layer. Coupling weakly the two systems through a tunneling term in the bulk, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-21 Peng Cheng , Philipp W. Klein , Kirill Plekhanov , Klaus Sengstock , Monika Aidelsburger , Christof Weitenberg , Karyn Le Hur