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The emergence of controlled, two-dimensional moir\'e materials has uncovered a new platform for investigating topological physics. Twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG) has been predicted to host a topologically non-trivial gapped phase…
We explore a network of electronic quantum valley Hall (QVH) states in the moir\'e crystal of minimally twisted bilayer graphene. In our transport measurements we observe Fabry-P\'erot and Aharanov-Bohm oscillations which are robust in…
Theory predicts that the application of an electric field breaks the inversion symmetry of AB and BA stacked domains in twisted bilayer graphene, resulting in the formation of a triangular network of one-dimensional valley-protected helical…
An established way of realizing topologically protected states in a two-dimensional electron gas is by applying a perpendicular magnetic field thus creating quantum Hall edge channels. In electrostatically gapped bilayer graphene…
We investigate the electronic density redistribution of rotated bilayer graphene under a perpendicular electric field, showing that the layers are actually coupled even for large angles. This layer-layer coupling is evidenced by the charge…
We study the edge states of twisted bilayer graphene and their topological origin. We show that the twisted bilayer graphene has special edge states associated with the moir\'{e} pattern, and the emergence of these moir\'{e} edge states is…
A twisted graphene bilayer exhibits a triangular Moir\'e pattern in the local stacking, that smoothly alternates between the three basic types AA', AB' and BA'. Under an interlayer bias U, the latter two types develop a spectral gap,…
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…
Valley pseudospin, the quantum degree of freedom characterizing the degenerate valleys in energy bands, is a distinct feature of two-dimensional Dirac materials. Similar to spin, the valley pseudospin is spanned by a time reversal pair of…
In gated bilayer graphene, topological zero-line modes (ZLMs) appear along lines separating regions with opposite valley Hall topologies. Although it is experimentally difficult to design the electric gates to realize ZLMs due to the…
The layer-resolved quantum transport response of a twisted bilayer graphene device is investigated by driving a current through the bottom layer and measuring the induced voltage in the top layer. Devices with four- and eight-layer…
We investigate the electronic and transport properties of gated bilayer graphene with one corrugated layer, which results in a stacking AB/BA boundary. When a gate voltage is applied to one layer, topologically protected gap states appear…
In the presence of a finite interlayer displacement field bilayer graphene has an energy gap that is dependent on stacking and largest for the stable AB and BA stacking arrangements. When the relative orientations between layers are twisted…
We employ dual-gated 30{\deg}-twisted bilayer graphene to demonstrate simultaneous ultra-high mobility and conductivity (up to 40 mS at room temperature), unattainable in a single-layer of graphene. We find quantitative agreement with a…
Staking layered materials revealed to be a very powerful method to tailor their electronic properties. It has indeed been theoretically and experimentally shown that twisted bilayers of graphene (tBLG) with a rotation angle $\theta$,…
The domain walls between AB- and BA-stacked gapped bilayer graphene have garnered intense interest as they host topologically-protected, valley-polarised transport channels. The introduction of a twist angle between the bilayers and the…
We study a 2D continuum model of electronic transport in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) at commensurate angles. We use two honeycomb potentials with the symmetries of graphene, either sharing a common origin (AA stacking) or shifted by a…
We present a comprehensive theoretical study of the topological surface states (TSS) of Bi$_2$Se$_3$, a 3D topological insulator, epitaxially grown on twisted bilayer graphene (tBG). The moir\'e potential induced by tBG folds the TSS Dirac…
We investigate bilayers of nanoporous graphene (NPG), laterally bonded carbon nanoribbons, and graphene. The electronic and transport properties are explored as a function of the interlayer twist angle using an atomistic tight-binding model…
The development of valleytronics demands long-range electronic transport with preserved valley index, a degree of freedom similar to electron spin. A promising structure for this end is a topological one-dimensional (1D) channel formed in…