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Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) is known to have disorder in its twist angle. We show that in terms of a Dirac equation with a random gauge potential ${\bf A}({\bf r})$ this disorder becomes huge when the average twist angle is near the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Baruch Horovitz , Pierre Le Doussal

We present simple models to describe the in-plane and the out-of-plane lattice relaxation in twisted bilayer and symmetrically twisted trilayer graphene. Analytical results and series expansions show that for twist angles {\theta} > 1…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Adrián Ceferino , Francisco Guinea

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

Atomically thin materials offer multiple opportunities for layer-by-layer control of their electronic properties. While monolayer graphene (MLG) is a zero-gap system, Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene (BLG) acquires a finite band gap when the…

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

The low-energy bands of twisted bilayer graphene form Dirac cones with approximate electron-hole symmetry at small rotation angles. These crossings are protected by the emergent symmetries of moir\'e patterns, conferring a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Hector Ochoa

The role of twist angle ($\theta_t$) in tailoring the physical properties of heterostructures is emerging as a new paradigm in two-dimensional materials. The influence of flat electronic bands near the magic angle ($\sim$1.1$^{\circ}$) on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Darshit Solanki , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , A. K. Sood , Anindya Das

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

Close to a magical angle, twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) systems exhibit isolated flat electronic bands and, accordingly, strong electron localization. TBLGs have hence been ideal platforms to explore superconductivity, correlated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-28 V. Hung Nguyen , D. Paszko , M. Lamparski , B. Van Troeye , V. Meunier , J. -C. Charlier

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) has been experimentally observed to exhibit almost flat bands when the twisting occurs at certain magic angles. In this letter, we report new results on the continuum model of twisted bilayer graphene and its…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-21 Simon Becker , Mark Embree , Jens Wittsten , Maciej Zworski

Twisted bilayers of nodal superconductors were recently proposed as a promising platform to host superconducting phases that spontaneously break time-reversal symmetry. Here we extend this analysis to twisted multilayers, focusing on two…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-07-28 Tarun Tummuru , Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise , Marcel Franz

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

The family of moir\'e materials provides a powerful platform for tuning interlayer couplings via the twist angle in systems with large spatial periodicity. In trilayer graphene systems, interlayer couplings at the two interfaces can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Wei-En Tseng , Mei-Yin Chou

We investigate the electronic structure of a twisted multilayer graphene system forming a moir\'e pattern. We consider small twist angles separating the graphene sheets and develop a low-energy theory to describe the coupling of Dirac Bloch…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Christophe Mora , Nicolas Regnault , B. Andrei Bernevig

Turbostratic multilayer graphene, composed of randomly twisted and stacked graphene sheets, offers a naturally disordered yet tunable platform for exploring moir\'e physics beyond tedious artificial stacking. Using scanning tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Mona Garg , Ankit Kumar , Deepti Rana , Anmol Arya , Aswini R , Umesh Waghmare , G. U. Kulkarni , Goutam Sheet

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…

We report a systematic plasmonic study of twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) - two graphene layers stacked with a twist angle. Through real-space nanoimaging of TBLG single crystals with a wide distribution of twist angles, we find that TBLG…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-30 Fengrui Hu , Suprem R Das , Yilong Luan , T. -F. Chung , Yong P. Chen , Zhe Fei

Flat bands play an important role in the study of strongly correlated phenomena, such as ferromagnetism, superconductivity, and fractional quantum Hall effect. Here we report direct experimental evidence for the presence of flat bands,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-28 Lei Feng , Xianqing Lin , Lan Meng , Jia-Cai Nie , Jun Ni , Lin He

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

Graphene, a one-layer honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms, exhibits unconventional phenomena and attracts much interest since its discovery. Recently, an unexpected Mott-like insulator state induced by moir\'e pattern and a superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-22 Yao Wang , Yi-Jun Chang , Jun Gao , Yong-Heng Lu , Zhi-Qiang Jiao , Fang-Wei Ye , Xian-Min Jin
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