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We study the electronic properties of a twisted trilayer graphene, where two of the layers have Bernal stacking and the third one has a relative rotation with respect to the AB-stacked layers. Near the Dirac point, the AB-twisted trilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 E. Suárez Morell , M. Pacheco , L. Chico , L. Brey

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) hosts nearly flat bands with narrow bandwidths of a few meV at certain {\em magic} twist angles. Here we show that in twisted gapped Dirac material bilayers, or massive twisted bilayer graphenes (MTBG),…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Srivani Javvaji , Jinhua Sun , Jeil Jung

Magic angle twisted bilayer graphene has emerged as a powerful platform for studying strongly correlated electron physics, owing to its almost dispersionless low-energy bands and the ability to tune the band filling by electrostatic gating.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Nikhil Tilak , Xinyuan Lai , Shuang Wu , Zhenyuan Zhang , Mingyu Xu , Raquel de Almeida Ribeiro , Paul C Canfield , Eva Y. Andrei

The edge physics of graphene based systems is well known to be highly sensitive to the atomic structure at the boundary, with localized zero mode edge states found only on the zigzag type termination of the lattice. Here we demonstrate that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 M. Fleischmann , R. Gupta , D. Weckbecker , W. Landgraf , O. Pankratov , V. Meded , S. Shallcross

In disordered lattices, itinerant electrons typically undergo Anderson localization due to random phase interference, which suppresses their motion. By contrast, in flat-band systems where electrons are intrinsically localized owing to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Zhe Hou , Hailong Li , Qing Yan , Yu-Hang Li , Hua Jiang

In this article, we review the recent discoveries of exotic phenomena in graphene, especially superconductivity. It has been theoretically suggested for more than one decade that superconductivity may emerge in doped graphene-based…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-28 Yonghuan Chu , Fangduo Zhu , Linzhi Wen , Wanying Chen , Qiaoni Chen , Tianxing Ma

Rotated graphene bilayers form an exotic class of nanomaterials with fascinating electronic properties governed by the rotation angle theta. For large rotation angles, the electron eigenstates are restricted to one layer and the bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Guy Trambly de Laissardiere , Omid Faizy Namarvar , Didier Mayou , Laurence Magaud

The interlayer coupling of twisted bilayer graphene could markedly affect its electronic band structure. A current challenge required to overcome in experiment is how to precisely control the coupling and therefore tune the electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-07 Lan Meng , Wei Yan , Zhao-Dong Chu , Yanfeng Zhang , Lei Feng , Rui-Fen Dou , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He

In the present work, we consider the excitonic effects in the twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) within the rotated bilayer Hubbard model. Both, intralayer and interlayer Coulomb interactions have been considered and the half-filling condition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 V. Apinyan , T. K. Kopeć

Stacked graphene multilayers with a small relative twist angle between each of the layers have been found to host flat bands at a series of magic angles. We consider the effect that Dirac point asymmetry between the layers, and in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 Adam Eaton , Yantao Li , Herbert Fertig , Babak Seradjeh

The tight-binding model is closely associated with the modified layer-based random-phase approximation to thoroughly investigate the electron-electron interactions in sliding bilayer graphene. The Coulomb interactions and intralayer and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-13 Chiun-Yan Lin , Ming-Fa Lin

We analyze the phase diagram of twisted graphene bilayers near a magic angle. We consider the effect of the long range Coulomb interaction, treated within the self consistent Hartree-Fock approximation, and we study arbitrary band fillings.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-15 Tommaso Cea , Francisco Guinea

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,…

Several numerical studies have shown that the electronic properties of twisted bilayers of graphene (TBLG) and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are tunable by strain engineering of the stacking layers. In particular, the flatness of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-24 Marwa Mannaï , Sonia Haddad

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

We systematically study emergent Kondo lattice models from magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene using the topological heavy fermion representation. At the commensurate fillings, we demonstrate a series of symmetric strongly correlated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-13 Yang-Zhi Chou , Sankar Das Sarma

We propose that a multi-graphene of ABC-type stacking yields virtual bound states lying within the Coulomb insulating gap of an Anderson-like adatom. Wondrously, a virtual state constitutes the counterpart of the atomic collapse phenomenon…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-13 W. C. Silva , J. E. Sanches , A. M. Freitas , L. T. Lustosa , M. de Souza , A. C. Seridonio

We explore in detail the electronic phases of a system consisting of three non-colinear arrays of coupled quantum wires, each rotated 120 degrees with respect to the next. A perturbative renormalization-group analysis reveals that multiple…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-29 Chuan Chen , A. H. Castro Neto , Vitor M. Pereira

The strong coupling phase diagram of magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) predicts a series of exact one particle charge $\pm 1$ gapped excitations on top of the integer-filled ferromagnetic ground-states. Finite-size exact…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-25 Frank Schindler , Oskar Vafek , B. Andrei Bernevig

We compute the energy spectrum of a nearest-neighbor electron hopping model for bi-layer graphene at commensurate twist angles. Specifically, we focus on the simplest bi-layer lattices, with moire patterns that have no subcells. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-25 J. P. Rodriguez