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Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene displays at different fillings of the four flat bands lying around the charge neutrality point a wealth of notable phases that include magnetic Chern insulators, whose magnetization is mostly of orbital…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-07 Andrea Blason , Michele Fabrizio

We investigate magnetic instabilities in charge-neutral twisted bilayer graphene close to so-called "magic angles" using a combination of real-space Hartree-Fock and dynamical mean-field theories. In view of the large size of the unit cell…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-08 Javad Vahedi , Robert Peters , Ahmed Missaoui , Andreas Honecker , Guy Trambly de Laissardière

Twisted bilayer graphene with a twist angle of around 1.1{\deg} features a pair of isolated flat electronic bands and forms a strongly correlated electronic platform. Here, we use scanning tunneling microscopy to probe local properties of…

The interplay of twist and strain in bilayer graphene enables the formation of moir\'e patterns and narrow bands that host correlated and topological phases. While magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has been widely studied, strain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Federico Escudero , Dong Wang , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Shengjun Yuan , Francisco Guinea , Zhen Zhan

In graphene growth, island symmetry can become lower than the intrinsic symmetries of both graphene and the substrate. First-principles calculations and Monte Carlo modeling explain the shapes observed in our experiments and earlier studies…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-25 Vasilii I. Artyukhov , Yufeng Hao , Rodney S. Ruoff , Boris I. Yakobson

Graphene moir\'e superlattices display electronic flat bands. At integer fillings of these flat bands, energy gaps due to strong electron-electron interactions are generally observed. However, the presence of other correlation-driven phases…

Kekul\'{e}-ordered graphene on SiC realized by intercalating two-dimensional metal layers offers a versatile platform for exploring intriguing quantum states and phenomena. Here, we achieve the intercalation of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-24 Xiaodong Qiu , Tongshuai Zhu , Zhenjie Fan , Kaili Wang , Yuyang Mu , Bin Yang , Di Wu , Haijun Zhang , Can Wang , Huaiqiang Wang , Yi Zhang

The topological heavy fermion (THF) model of twisted bilayer graphene is a framework for treating its strongly interacting topological flat bands. In this work, we employ the THF model with heterostrain and particle-hole symmetry breaking…

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

In this article we briefly review recent experimental and theoretical work on quantum Hall effect in graphene, and argue that some of the quantum Hall states exhibit spontaneous symmetry breaking that is driven by electron-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 Kun Yang

When the two layers of a twisted moir\'e system are subject to different degrees of strain, the effect is amplified by the inverse twist angle, e.g., by a factor of 50 in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG). Samples of TBG typically…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-27 Tianle Wang , Daniel E. Parker , Tomohiro Soejima , Johannes Hauschild , Sajant Anand , Nick Bultinck , Michael P. Zaletel

The ability to probe symmetry breaking transitions on their natural time scales is one of the key challenges in nonequilibrium physics. Stripe ordering represents an intriguing type of broken symmetry, where complex interactions result in…

Interactions among charge carriers in graphene can lead to the spontaneous breaking of multiple degeneracies. When increasing the number of graphene layers following rhombohedral stacking, the dominant role of Coulomb interactions becomes…

If we stack up two layers of graphene while changing their respective orientation by some twisting angle, we end up with a system that has striking differences when compared to single-layer graphene. For a very specific value of this twist…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-18 Eduardo B. Molinero , Anushree Datta , María J. Calderón , Elena Bascones , Rui E. F. Silva

In magic angle twisted bilayer graphene, transport, thermodynamic and spectroscopic experiments pinpoint at a competition between distinct low-energy states with and without electronic order. We use Dynamical Mean Field Theory (DMFT) on the…

The coexistence of superconducting and correlated insulating states in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene prompts fascinating questions about the relationship of these orders. Independent control of the microscopic mechanisms governing…

The formation of a superlattice in graphene can serve as a way to modify its electronic bandstructure and thus to engineer its electronic transport properties. Recent experiments have discovered a Kekul\'e bond ordering in graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Elias Andrade , Ramon Carrillo-Bastos , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Francisco Mireles

At certain angles of rotation called `magic angles' twisted bilayer graphene features almost flat bands. The resulting strong correlations drive the system to novel phases which have been observed in experiments recently. A complete…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-01 Steven C. Carter , Hridis K. Pal , M. Kindermann

In the half-filled zero-energy Landau level of bilayer graphene, competing phases with spontaneously broken symmetries and an intriguing quantum critical behavior have been predicted. Here we investigate signatures of these broken-symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 Falko Pientka , Jonah Waissman , Philip Kim , Bertrand I. Halperin

One of the intriguing characteristics of honeycomb lattices is the appearance of a pseudo-magnetic field as a result of mechanical deformation. In the case of graphene, the Landau quantization resulting from this pseudo-magnetic field has…

Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) images are obtained for the first time on few layer and twisted multilayer epitaxial graphene states synthesized on n+ 6H-SiC a-plane non-polar surface. The twisted graphene is determined to have a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 P. Xu , M. L. Ackerman , S. D. Barber , J. K. Schoelz , P. M. Thibado , V. D. Wheeler , L. O. Nyakiti , R. L. Myers-Ward , C. R. Eddy , D. K. Gaskill