English
Related papers

Related papers: Intrinsic Superflat Bands in General Twisted Bilay…

200 papers

Graphene-based systems have emerged as a rich platform for exploring emergent quantum phenomena-including superconductivity, magnetism, and correlated insulating behavior-arising from flat electronic bands that enhance many-body…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Xinyu Cai , Fengfan Ren , Qiao Li , Yanran Shi , Yifan Wang , Yifan Zhang , Zhenghang Zhi , Jiawei Luo , Yulin Chen , Jianpeng Liu , Xufeng Kou , Zhongkai Liu

We have studied how a generic bilayer kagome lattice behave upon layer rotation. We employed a Tight Binding model with one orbital per site and found (i) for low rotational angles, and at low energies, the same flat bands structure like in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-28 F. Crasto de Lima , R. H. Miwa , E. Suárez Morell

The existence of Bloch flat bands provides an facile pathway to realize strongly correlated phenomena in materials. Using density-functional theory and tight-binding approach, we show that the flat bands can form in twisted bilayer of…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-04 Xing-Ju Zhao , Yang Yang , Dong-Bo Zhang , Su-Huai Wei

In recent years, flat electronic bands in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) have attracted significant attention due to their intriguing topological properties, extremely slow electron velocities, and enhanced density of states. Extending…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-06-16 Wenjie Sui , Wei Han , Zheng Vitto Han , Zengming Meng , Jing Zhang

Ultraflat bands have already been detected in twisted bilayer graphene and twisted bilayer transition-metal dichalcogenides, which provide a platform to investigate strong correlations. In this paper, the electronic properties of twisted…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-05 Yonggang Li , Zhen Zhan , Shengjun Yuan

Photonic analogs of the moir\'e superlattices mediated by interlayer electromagnetic coupling are expected to give rise to rich phenomena such as nontrivial flatband topology. Here, we propose and demonstrate a scheme to tune the flatbands…

Optics · Physics 2023-09-29 Peilong Hong , Yi Liang , Zhigang Chen , Guoquan Zhang

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) is a recently discovered two-dimensional superlattice structure which exhibits strongly-correlated quantum many-body physics, including strange metallic behavior and unconventional superconductivity. Most of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Cunyuan Jiang , Matteo Baggioli , Qing-Dong Jiang

Twisted bilayers of two-dimensional materials have emerged as a highly tunable platform for studying broken symmetry phases. While most interest has been focused on emergent states in systems whose constituent monolayers do not feature…

We present a theoretical study of the intrinsic plasmonic properties of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) as a function of the twist angle $\theta$ (and other microscopic parameters such as temperature and filling factor). Our calculations,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 Lorenzo Cavicchi , Iacopo Torre , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Frank H. L. Koppens , Marco Polini

The recent observation of correlated phases in transition metal dichalcogenide moir\'e systems at integer and fractional filling promises new insight into metal-insulator transitions and the unusual states of matter that can emerge near…

The emergence of flat electronic bands and of the recently discovered strongly correlated and superconducting phases in twisted bilayer graphene crucially depends on the interlayer twist angle upon approaching the magic angle $\theta_M…

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

We analyze a description of twisted graphene bilayers, that incorporates deformation of the layers due to the nature modern interlayer potentials, and a modification of the hopping parameters between layers in the light of the classic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-29 Francisco Guinea , Niels R. Walet

We report a combined nano-photocurrent and infrared nanoscopy study of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) enabling access to the local electronic phenomena at length scales as short as 20 nm. We show that the photocurrent changes sign at…

Moir\'e superlattices that consist of two or more layers of two-dimensional materials stacked together with a small twist angle have emerged as a tunable platform to realize various correlated and topological phases, such as Mott…

Moir\'e structures formed by twisting three layers of graphene with two independent twist angles present an ideal platform for studying correlated quantum phenomena, as an infinite set of angle pairs is predicted to exhibit flat bands.…

Electronic correlations in two-dimensional materials play a crucial role in stabilising emergent phases of matter. The realisation of correlation-driven phenomena in graphene has remained a longstanding goal, primarily due to the absence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Saisab Bhowmik , Arindam Ghosh , U. Chandni

The discovery of correlated electronic phases, including Mott-like insulators and superconductivity, in twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) near the magic angle, and the intriguing similarity of their phenomenology to that of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-21 Yuhang Jiang , Jinhai Mao , Xinyuan Lai , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Kristjan Haule , Eva Y. Andrei

A properly strained graphene monolayer or bilayer is expected to harbour periodic pseudo-magnetic fields with high symmetry, yet to date, a convincing demonstration of such pseudo-magnetic fields has been lacking, especially for bilayer…

Band engineering in twisted bilayers of the five generic two-dimensional Bravais networks is demonstrated. We first derive symmetry-based constraints on the interlayer coupling, which helps us to predict and understand the shape of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-13 Toshikaze Kariyado , Ashvin Vishwanath