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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

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) features strongly correlated and topological phases due to its flat bands emerging near the magic angle. However, the effects of the non-Hermiticity, arising from the coupling to the environment and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Juan Pablo Esparza , Vladimir Juricic

We investigate the physics of photonic band structures of the moir\'e patterns that emerged when overlapping two uni-dimensional (1D) photonic crystal slabs with mismatched periods. The band structure of our system is a result of the…

We present electronic structure calculations of twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG): A tetralayer graphene structure composed of two AB-stacked graphene bilayers with a relative rotation angle between them. Using first-principles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 F. J. Culchac , Rodrigo B. Capaz , Leonor Chico , E. Suarez Morell

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene exhibits a panoply of many-body phenomena that are intimately tied to the appearance of narrow and well-isolated electronic bands. The microscopic ingredients that are responsible for the complex…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-04 Cyprian Lewandowski , Stevan Nadj-Perge , Debanjan Chowdhury

In this work, we determine states of electronic order of small-angle twisted bilayer graphene. Ground states are determined for weak and strong couplings which are representatives for varying distances of the twist-angle from its magic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-29 Markus J. Klug

Twisted bilayers of two-dimensional materials, such as twisted bilayer graphene, often feature flat electronic bands that enable the observation of electron correlation effects. In this work, we study the electronic structure of twisted…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-18 Valerio Vitale , Kemal Atalar , Arash A. Mostofi , Johannes Lischner

The novel physics of twisted bilayer graphene has motivated extensive studies of magic-angle flat bands hosted by moir\'e structures in electronic, photonic and acoustic systems. On the other hand, bound states in the continuum (BICs) have…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-13 Lei Huang , Weixuan Zhang , Xiangdong Zhang

We review the effect of uniaxial strain on the low-energy electronic dispersion and Landau level structure of bilayer graphene. Based on the tight-binding approach, we derive a strain-induced term in the low-energy Hamiltonian and show how…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-16 M. Mucha-Kruczynski , I. L. Aleiner , V. I. Fal'ko

We investigate the gap in the single-electron spectrum of twisted bilayer graphene. In a perfect infinite lattice of a twisted bilayer, the gap varies exponentially in response to weak changes of the twist angle. Such a large sensitivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-17 A. V. Rozhkov , A. O. Sboychakov , A. L. Rakhmanov , Franco Nori

The electronic properties and optical excitations are investigated in the geometry- and field-modulated bilayer graphene systems, respectively, by using the tight-binding model and Kubo formula. The stacking symmetry of bilayer graphene can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-23 Chiun-Yan Lin , Ming-Fa Lin

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

We review the theoretical modelling of moir\'e materials, focusing on various aspects of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MA-TBG) viewed through the lens of Hartree-Fock mean-field theory. We first provide an elementary introduction to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-20 Yves H. Kwan , Ziwei Wang , Glenn Wagner , Nick Bultinck , Steven H. Simon , Siddharth A. Parameswaran

We show that the twisted graphene bilayer can reveal unusual topological properties at low energies, as a consequence of a Dirac-point splitting. These features rely on a symmetry analysis of the electron hopping between the two layers of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-21 R. de Gail , M. O. Goerbig , F. Guinea , G. Montambaux , A. H. Castro Neto

Artificially twisted heterostructures of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) offer unprecedented control over their electronic and optical properties via the spatial modulation of interlayer interactions and structural…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-25 Nikhil Tilak , Guohong Li , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Eva Y. Andrei

In this article, we report the electronic band structures of hexagonal bilayer systems, specifically, rotated graphene-graphene and boron nitride-boron nitride bilayers, by introducing an angle between the layers and forming new periodic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-26 W. S. Wu-Mei , R. R. Rey-González

We present a multi-scale density functional theory (DFT) informed molecular dynamics and tight-binding (TB) approach to capture the interdependent atomic and electronic structures of twisted bilayer graphene. We calibrate the flat band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-17 Nicolas Leconte , Srivani Javvaji , Jiaqi An , Appalakondaiah Samudrala , Jeil Jung

We build symmetry adapted maximally localized Wannier states, and construct the low energy tight binding model for the four narrow bands of the twisted bilayer graphene. We do so when the twist angle is commensurate, near the `magic' value,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-02 Jian Kang , Oskar Vafek

We theoretically study the electronic band structure and local optical conductivity of domain wall solitons in bilayer graphene (as well as twisted bilayer graphene) with arbitrary soliton angle, which characterizes the local strain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-18 Lu Wen , Xinyu Lv , Zhiqiang Li

We report on the theoretical electronic spectra of twisted phosphorene bilayers exhibiting moir\'e patterns, as computed by means of a continuous approximation to the moir\'e superlattice Hamiltonian. Our model is constructed by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-23 Isaac Soltero , Jonathan Guerrero-Sánchez , Francisco Mireles , David A. Ruiz-Tijerina