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Van Hove singularities (VHS's) in the density of states play an outstanding and diverse role for the electronic and thermodynamic properties of crystalline solids. At the critical point the Fermi surface connectivity changes and topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-06 Youngwook Kim , Patrick Herlinger , Pilkyung Moon , Mikito Koshino , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Jurgen. H Smet

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

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) hosts a rich landscape of electronic phases arising from the interplay between strong electron-electron interactions and nontrivial band topology. While the flat bands near zero energy are central to many…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Leonardo A. Navarro-Labastida , Pierre A. Pantaleon , Francisco Guinea , Gerardo G. Naumis

Ferromagnetism is most common in transition metal compounds but may also arise in low-density two-dimensional electron systems, with signatures observed in silicon, III-V semiconductor systems, and graphene moir\'e heterostructures. Here we…

The discovery of interaction-driven insulating and superconducting phases in moir\'e van der Waals heterostructures has sparked considerable interest in understanding the novel correlated physics of these systems. While a significant number…

When a strong magnetic field is applied perpendicularly (along z) to a sheet confining electrons to two dimensions (x-y), highly correlated states emerge as a result of the interplay between electron-electron interactions, confinement and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-27 B. A. Piot , Z. Jiang , C. R. Dean , L. W. Engel , G. Gervais , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

Motivated by the recent observation of correlated insulator states and unconventional superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene, we study the dependence of electron correlations on the twist angle and reveal the existence of strong…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-18 Zachary A. H. Goodwin , Fabiano Corsetti , Arash A. Mostofi , Johannes Lischner

The discovery of different phases as a result of correlations, especially in low-dimensional materials, has been always an exciting and fundamental subject of research. Recent experiments on twisted bilayer graphene have revealed reentrant…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-30 Yury Sherkunov , Joseph J. Betouras

Twisted bilayer graphene offers a unique bilayer two-dimensional-electron system where the layer separation is only in sub-nanometer scale. Unlike Bernal-stacked bilayer, the layer degree of freedom is disentangled from spin and valley,…

Application of a displacement field opens a gap and enhances the Van-Hove singularities in the band structure of Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene. By adjusting the carrier density so that the Fermi energy lies in the vicinity of these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-20 Enrique Aguilar-Méndez , Titus Neupert , Glenn Wagner

Twisted graphene multilayers are highly tunable flatband systems for developing new phases of matter. Thus far, while orbital ferromagnetism has been observed in valley polarized phases, the long-range orders of other correlated phases as…

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), with rotational misalignment close to 1.1$^\circ$, features isolated flat electronic bands that host a rich phase diagram of correlated insulating, superconducting, ferromagnetic, and topological…

Twisted bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors have enabled the discovery of superconductivity, ferromagnetism, correlated insulators and a series of new topological phases of matter. However, the connection between…

In Bernal bilayer graphene (BBG), a perpendicular displacement field flattens the bottom of the conduction band and thereby facilitates the formation of strongly-correlated electron states at low electron density. Here, we focus on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-13 Sandeep Joy , Brian Skinner

We systematically investigate the emergence of electron crystal phases in rhombohedral multilayer graphene using comprehensive self-consistent Hartree Fock calculations combined with \textit{ab initio} tight binding model. As the carrier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Wangqian Miao , Chu Li

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) hosts a multitude of strongly correlated states at partial fillings of its flat bands. In a magnetic field, these flat bands further evolve into a unique Hofstadter spectrum renormalized by…

The realization of fractional Chern insulators in moir\'e materials has sparked the search for further novel phases of matter in this platform. In particular, recent works have demonstrated the possibility of realizing quantum anomalous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Raul Perea-Causin , Hui Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz

When electrons are confined in two dimensions and subjected to strong magnetic fields, the Coulomb interactions between them become dominant and can lead to novel states of matter such as fractional quantum Hall liquids. In these liquids…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Kirill I. Bolotin , Fereshte Ghahari , Michael D. Shulman , Horst L. Stormer , Philip Kim

The existence of strong trigonal warping around the K point for the low energy electronic states in multilayer (N$\geq$2) graphene films and graphite is well established. It is responsible for phenomena such as Lifshitz transitions and…

When the charge density is sufficiently low, interacting two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) would undergo a phase transition from homogeneous Fermi liquid to an electronic crystal state, known as Wigner crystal. Besides conventional 2DEG,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-14 Zhongqing Guo , Jianpeng Liu