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The study of vacancies in graphene is a topic of growing interest. A single vacancy induces a localized stable charge of order unity interacting with other charges of the conductor through an unscreened Coulomb potential. It also breaks the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Omrie Ovdat , Yaroslav Don , Eric Akkermans

The interplay of topological characteristics in real space and reciprocal space can lead to the emergence of unconventional topological phases. In this Letter, we implement a novel mechanism for generating higher-Chern flat bands on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-23 Yifei Guan , Oleg V. Yazyev , Alexander Kruchkov

Flat-band in twisted graphene bilayer has garnered widespread attention, and whether flat-bands can be realized in carbon monolayer is an interesting topic worth exploring in condensed matter physics. In this work, we demonstrate that,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-18 Chaoyu He , Shifang Li , Yuwen Zhang , Zhentao Fu , Jin Li , Jianxin Zhong

It has been found that periodically closely spaced vacancies on a graphite sheet cause a significant rearrange-ment of its electronic spectrum: metallic waveguides with a high density of states near the Fermi level are formed along the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 L. A. Chernozatonskii , P. B. Sorokin , E. E. Belova , J. Bruning , A. S. Fedorov

Chiral exact flat bands (FBs) at charge neutrality have attracted much recent interest, presenting an intriguing condensed-matter system to realize exact many-body phenomena, as specifically shown in "magic angle" twisted bilayer graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-21 Gurjyot Sethi , Bowen Xia , Dongwook Kim , Hang Liu , Xiaoyin Li , Feng Liu

The chiral Hamiltonian for twisted graphene bilayers is written as a $2\times2$ matrix operator by a renormalization of the Hamiltonian that takes into account the particle-hole symmetry. This results in an effective Hamiltonian with an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 Gerardo G. Naumis , Leonardo A. Navarro-Labastida , Enrique Aguilar-Méndez , Abdiel Espinosa-Champo

Flatbands with extremely narrow bandwidths on the order of a few mili-electron volts can appear in twisted multilayer graphene systems for appropriate system parameters. Here we investigate the electronic structure of a twisted bi-bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-24 Narasimha Raju Chebrolu , Bheema Lingam Chittari , Jeil Jung

We study a minimal Hubbard model for electronically driven superconductivity in a correlated flat mini-band resulting from the superlattice modulation of a twisted graphene multilayer. The valley degree of freedom drastically modifies the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-30 Cenke Xu , Leon Balents

A new set of lattice-models based on the hexagonal $\sqrt{N}\times\sqrt{N}$ super-cells of the well-known honeycomb lattice with single-hole defect (HL-D-1/2N) are proposed to realize the nontrivial isolated flat-bands. Through performing…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-15 Chaoyu He , Yujie Liao , Tao Ouyang , Huimin Zhang , Hongjun Xiang , Jianxin Zhong

For two-dimensional single-valley quadratic band crossing systems with weak repulsive electron-electron interactions, we show that upon introducing a chemical potential, particle-hole order is suppressed and superconductivity becomes the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-04-21 Kelly Ann Pawlak , James M. Murray , Oskar Vafek

The superconducting metal-organic framework Cu-BHT forms a kagome lattice with metals at the vertices and ligands along the bonds. This bipartite motif is common in reticular materials. We show that a tight-binding model on this lattice…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-12-19 M. F. Ohlrich , E. M. Makaresz , H. L. Nourse , B. J. Powell

For twisted bilayer graphene close to magic angle, we show that the effects of lattice relaxation and the Hartree interaction both become simultaneously important. Including both effects in a continuum theory reveals a Lifshitz transition…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-04-30 Mohammed M. Al Ezzi , Liangtao Peng , Zhengyu Liu , Jonah Huang Zi Chao , Gayani N. Pallewela , Darryl Foo , Shaffique Adam

Flat-band physics has attracted much attention in recently years because of its interesting properties and important applications. Some typical lattices have been proposed to generate flat bands, such as Kagome and Lieb lattices. The flat…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-17 Siwen Li , Yuee Xie , Yuanping Chen

We report the observation of superconductivity in rhombohedral trilayer graphene electrostatically doped with holes. Superconductivity occurs in two distinct regions within the space of gate-tuned charge carrier density and applied electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-25 Haoxin Zhou , Tian Xie , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Andrea F. Young

Superlattice potential modulation can produce flat minibands in Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene. In this work we study how band topology and interaction-induced symmetry-broken phases in this system are controlled by tuning the displacement…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-04 Yongxin Zeng , Tobias M. R. Wolf , Chunli Huang , Nemin Wei , Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Allan H. MacDonald , Jennifer Cano

Fractional quantum anomalous Hall effects realized in twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ and multilayer-graphene-based moir\'e heterostructures have captured a tremendous growth of interest. In this work, we propose that rhombohedral multilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Yanran Shi , Bo Xie , Fengfan Ren , Xinyu Cai , Zhongqing Guo , Qiao Li , Xin Lu , Nicolas Regnault , Zhongkai Liu , Jianpeng Liu

Intrinsic rhombohedral graphene hosts an unusual low-energy electronic wavefunction, predominantly localized at its outer crystal faces with negligible presence in the bulk. Increasing the number of graphene layers amplifies the density of…

In this work, we propose a mechanism of inducing stable nodal superconductivity for multiple-flat-band systems. This mechanism is based on the degenerate flat band nature, so that not only intra-eigen-band pairing, but also inter-eigen-band…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-23 Chao-Xing Liu , B. Andrei Bernevig

This work investigates the electronic properties of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) through computational calculations, with the aim of understanding the emergence of flat bands and conditions favorable for superconductivity close to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Rajendra Paudel , Nabin Upadhya Dhakal , Nurapati Pantha

The discovery of superconductivity in twisted bilayer and twisted trilayer graphene has generated tremendous interest. The key feature of these systems is an interplay between interlayer coupling and a moir\'e superlattice that gives rise…