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We show that Floquet engineering with circularly polarized light (CPL) can selectively split the valley degeneracy of a twisted multilayer graphene (TMG), and thus generate a controlled valley-polarized Floquet Chern flat band with tunable…

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A two-dimensional electron system placed in a magnetic field develops Landau levels, where strong Coulomb interactions lead to the appearance of many-body correlated ground states. Quantum numbers similar to the electron spin enable the…

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We present a study of the nonlinear optical response of twisted bilayer graphene. We discuss the contribution of the Berry phase to the non-linearity when inversion symmetry is broken, thus underlining the interplay between band and real…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 Leone Di Mauro Villari , Alessandro Principi

In a groundbreaking experimental advance it was recently shown that by stacking two sheets of graphene atop of each other at a twist angle close to one of the so called "magic angles", an effective two-dimensional correlated system emerges.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-01 Lede Xian , Dante M. Kennes , Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean , Massimo Altarelli , Angel Rubio

We study the atomic structure of twisted bilayer graphene, with very small mismatch angles ($\theta \sim 0.28^0$), a topic of intense recent interest. We use simulations, in which we combine a recently presented semi-empirical potential for…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-15 Sandeep K. Jain , Vladimir Juricic , Gerard T. Barkema

We use temperature-dependent resistivity in small-angle twisted double bilayer graphene to measure bandwidths and gaps of the bands. This electron-hole asymmetric system has one set of non-dispersing bands that splits into two flat bands…

When monolayer graphene is crystallographically aligned to hexagonal boron nitride (BN), a moir\'e superlattice is formed, producing characteristic satellite Dirac peaks in the electronic band structure. Aligning a second BN layer to…

We show that bilayer graphene exhibits magneto-electric effects that are formally similar to those commonly seen in band insulators with broken inversion and time-reversal symmetries. Three unusual features characterize the magneto-electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-10 U. Zuelicke , R. Winkler

The relative strength of different proximity spin-orbit couplings in graphene on transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) can be tuned via the metal composition in the TMDC layer. While Gr/MoSe$_2$, has a normal gap, proximity to WSe$_2$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-31 Zahra Khatibi , Stephen R. Power

We show that the electronic structure of the low-energy bands in the small angle-twisted bilayer graphene consists of a series of semi-metallic and topological phases. In particular we are able to prove, using an approximate low-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Zhida Song , Zhijun Wang , Wujun Shi , Gang Li , Chen Fang , B. Andrei Bernevig

We propose models of twisted multilayer graphene that exhibit exactly flat Bloch bands with arbitrary Chern numbers and ideal band geometries. The models are constructed by twisting two sheets of Bernal-stacked multiple graphene layers with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-19 Jie Wang , Zhao Liu

Rhombohedral stacked multilayer graphene is an ideal platform to search for correlated electron phenomena, due to its pair of flat bands touching at zero energy and further tunability by an electric field. Furthermore, its valley-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-29 Tonghang Han , Zhengguang Lu , Giovanni Scuri , Jiho Sung , Jue Wang , Tianyi Han , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Hongkun Park , Long Ju

The family of moir\'e materials provides a powerful platform for tuning interlayer couplings via the twist angle in systems with large spatial periodicity. In trilayer graphene systems, interlayer couplings at the two interfaces can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Wei-En Tseng , Mei-Yin Chou

Theoretical calculations show that twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG) under a transverse electric field develops a valley Chern number 2 at charge neutrality. Using thermodynamic and thermal activation measurements we report the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 Yimeng Wang , G. William Burg , Biao Lian , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , B. Andrei Bernevig , Emanuel Tutuc

Twisted double bilayer graphene (tDBG) has emerged as an especially rich platform for studying strongly correlated and topological states of matter. The material features moir\'e bands that can be continuously deformed by both perpendicular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Minhao He , Jiaqi Cai , Ya-Hui Zhang , Yang Liu , Yuhao Li , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , David H. Cobden , Matthew Yankowitz , Xiaodong Xu

Graphene-based moir\'e superlattice featuring flat bands is a promising platform for studying strongly correlated states. By tuning two twist angles and displacement fields in twisted mono-mono-bilayer graphene (TMMBG), we observed a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-01 Jin Jiang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Mitali Banerjee

The recent observed anomalous Hall effect in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) aligned to hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) and unconventional ferroelectricity in Bernal bilayer graphene sandwiched by hBN present a new platform to tune…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-01 Min Long , Zhen Zhan , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Jose Ángel Silva-Guillén , Francisco Guinea , Shengjun Yuan

We investigate the domain wall network in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) under the influence of interlayer bias and screening effect from the layered structure. Starting from the continuum model, we analyze the low-energy domain wall modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-22 Hao-Chien Wang , Chen-Hsuan Hsu

Transport experiments in twisted bilayer graphene revealed multiple superconducting domes separated by correlated insulating states. These properties are generally associated with strongly correlated states in a flat mini-band of the…

Designer 2D materials where the constituent layers are not aligned may result in band structures with dispersionless, "flat" bands. Twisted bilayer graphene has been found to show correlated phases as well as superconductivity related to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-02-03 P. Törmä , S. Peotta , B. A. Bernevig