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Moir\'e superlattices hosting flat bands and correlated states have emerged as a focal topic in condensed matter research. Through first-principles calculations, we investigate three-dimensional flat bands in alternating twisted NbSe$_2$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-08 Shuang Liu , Peng Chen , Shihao Zhang

Using a multiscale computational approach, we probe the origin and evolution of ultraflatbands in moir\'e superlattices of twisted bilayer MoS$_2$, a prototypical transition metal dichalcogenide. Unlike twisted bilayer graphene, we find no…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 Mit H. Naik , Sudipta Kundu , Indrajit Maity , Manish Jain

Recent experiments show how a bilayer graphene twisted around a certain magic angle becomes superconducting as it is doped into a region with approximate flat bands. We investigate the mean-field $s$-wave superconducting state in such a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-12-19 T. J. Peltonen , R. Ojajärvi , T. T. Heikkilä

Twisted bilayer graphene exhibits isolated, relatively flat electronic bands near charge neutrality when the interlayer rotation is tuned to specific magic angles. These small misalignments, typically below 1.1{\deg}, result in long-period…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Antonio Palamara , Michele Pisarra , Antonello Sindona

The study of moir\'e superlattices has revealed intriguing phenomena in electronic systems, including unconventional superconductivity and ferromagnetism observed in magic-angle bilayer graphene. This approach has recently been adapted to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Jilei Chen , Marco Madami , Gianluca Gubbiotti , Haiming Yu

In the field of quantum magnetism, the exactly solvable Kitaev honeycomb model serves as a paradigm for the fractionalization of spin degrees of freedom and the formation of $\mathbb{Z}_2$ quantum spin liquids. An intense experimental…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-07 Ciarán Hickey , Simon Trebst

Recent discoveries on Mott insulating and unconventional superconducting states in twisted bilayer graphene with Moir\'e superlattices have reshaped the landscape of ''twistronics'' and paved the way for developing high-temperature…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-12-13 Mourad Oudich , Xianghong Kong , Tan Zhang , Chengwei Qiu , Yun Jing

Moir\'e materials have become one of the most active fields in material science in recent years due to their high tunability, and their unique properties emerge from the Moir\'e-scale structure modulation. Here, we propose twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-17 Ikuma Tateishi , Motoaki Hirayama

The transport properties of a twisted bilayer graphene barrier are investigated for various twist angles. Remarkably, for small twist angles around the magic angle $\theta_m \sim 1.05^{\circ}$, the local currents around the AA-stacked…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-28 D. A. Bahamon , G. Gómez-Santos , T. Stauber

The supermoir\'e lattice, arising from the interference of multiple moir\'e patterns, dramatically reshapes the electronic band structure by introducing new minibands and modifying band dispersion. Concurrently, strong electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-11 Zekang Zhou , Cheng Shen , Kryštof Kolář , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Cyprian Lewandowski , Mitali Banerjee

Kitaev's honeycomb-lattice spin-$1/2$ model has become a paradigmatic example for $\mathbb{Z}_2$ quantum spin liquids, both gapped and gapless. Here we study the fate of these spin-liquid phases in differently stacked bilayer versions of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-03 Urban F. P. Seifert , Julian Gritsch , Erik Wagner , Darshan G. Joshi , Wolfram Brenig , Matthias Vojta , Kai P. Schmidt

Topological spin liquids in two spatial dimensions are stable phases in the presence of a small magnetic field, but may give way to field-induced phenomena at intermediate field strengths. Sandwiched between the low-field spin liquid…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-17 Ciarán Hickey , Matthias Gohlke , Christoph Berke , Simon Trebst

We study the influence of strong spin-orbit interaction on the formation of flat bands in relaxed twisted bilayer WSe$_2$. Flat bands, well separated in energy, emerge at the band edges for twist angles ($\theta$) near 0$^{\circ}$ and…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-23 Sudipta Kundu , Mit H. Naik , H. R. Krishnamurthy , Manish Jain

Ultraflatbands that have been theoretically and experimentally detected in a bunch of van der Waals stacked materials showing some peculiar properties, for instance, highly localized electronic states and enhanced electron-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Zhen Zhan , Yipei Zhang , Pengfei Lv , Hongxia Zhong , Guodong Yu , Francisco Guinea , Jose Angel Silva-Guillen , Shengjun Yuan

Quantum spin liquids can arise from Kitaev magnetic interactions, and exhibit fractionalized excitations with the potential for a topological form of quantum computation. This review surveys recent experimental and theoretical progress on…

We present a tight-binding calculation of a twisted bilayer graphene at magic angle $\theta\sim 1.08^\circ$, allowing for full, in- and out-of-plane, relaxation of the atomic positions. The resulting band structure displays as usual four…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-19 M. Angeli , D. Mandelli , A. Valli , A. Amaricci , M. Capone , E. Tosatti , M. Fabrizio

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) represent exotic states of matter where quantum spins interact strongly yet evade long-range magnetic order down to absolute zero. Characterized by non-local quantum entanglement and resultant fractionalized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-05 Yuji Matsuda , Takasada Shibauchi , Hae-Young Kee

We study the ground-state phase diagram of the spin-$1/2$ Kitaev-Heisenberg model on the bilayer honeycomb lattice with large-scale tensor network calculations based on the infinite projected entangled pair state technique as well as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-24 Elahe Samimi , Antonia Duft , Patrick Adelhardt , Kai Phillip Schmidt , Saeed S. Jahromi

We propose an effective lattice model for the moir\'e structure of the twisted bilayer dice lattice. In the chiral limit, we find that there are flat bands at the zero-energy level at any twist angle besides the magic ones and these flat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-25 Di Ma , Yu-Ge Chen , Yue Yu , Xi Luo

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