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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

The emergence of flat bands in twisted bilayer graphene leads to an enhancement of interaction effects, and thus to insulating and superconducting phases at low temperatures, even though the exact mechanism is still widely debated. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-15 Tommaso Cea , Niels R. Walet , Francisco Guinea

Bilayer graphene was theorized to host a moire miniband with flat dispersion if the layers are stacked at specific twist angles known as the magic angles. Recently, such twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) with the first magic angle twist was…

The group of moir\'e graphene superconductors keeps growing, and by now it contains twisted graphene multilayers and twisted double bilayers. We analyze the contribution of long range charge fluctuations in the superconductivity of twisted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-05 Min Long , Alejandro Jimeno-Pozo , Hector Sainz-Cruz , Pierre A. Pantaleon , Francisco Guinea

We investigate how anisotropic strain reorganizes commensurate moir\'e superlattices and electronic structure in twisted bilayer graphene across a finite range of twist angles. Motivated by experiments demonstrating robust magic angle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Ayan Mondal , Bheema Lingam Chittari

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

The discovery of interaction-driven insulating and superconducting phases in moir\'e van der Waals heterostructures has sparked considerable interest in understanding the novel correlated physics of these systems. While a significant number…

Twisted graphene bilayers (TGBs) have low-energy van Hove singularities (VHSs) that are strongly localized around AA-stacked regions of the moire pattern. Therefore, they exhibit novel many-body electronic states, such as Mott-like…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Yi-Wen Liu , Jia-Bin Qiao , Chao Yan , Yu Zhang , Si-Yu Li , Lin He

In the twisted trilayer graphene (tTLG) platform, the rich beating patterns between the three graphene layers give rise to a plethora of new length scales and reconstructed electronic bands arising from the emergent moir\'e and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Konstantin Davydov , Daochen Long , Jack Alexander Tavakley , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ke Wang

Diverse emergent correlated electron phenomena have been observed in twisted graphene layers due to electronic interactions with the moir\'e superlattice potential. Many electronic structure predictions have been reported exploring this new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-29 J. E. Nunn , A. McEllistrim , A. Weston , A. Garcia-Ruiz , M. D. Watson , M. Mucha-Kruczynski , C. Cacho , R. Gorbachev , V. I. Fal'ko , N. R. Wilson

Tailoring electron transfer dynamics across solid-liquid interfaces is fundamental to the interconversion of electrical and chemical energy. Stacking atomically thin layers with a very small azimuthal misorientation to produce moir\'e…

The recent observed anomalous Hall effect in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) aligned to hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) and unconventional ferroelectricity in Bernal bilayer graphene sandwiched by hBN present a new platform to tune…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-01 Min Long , Zhen Zhan , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Jose Ángel Silva-Guillén , Francisco Guinea , Shengjun Yuan

Recently, the twist-angle effect on 2D van der Walls (vdW) materials, such as bilayer graphene, has attracted great attention. Many novel electronic, magnetic and even optical properties induced by such effect have been discovered. However,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-20 H. F. Feng , B. Liu , Zhi-Xin Guo

In heterostructures consisting of atomically thin crystals layered on top of one another, lattice mismatch or rotation between the layers results in long-wavelength moir\'e superlattices. These moir\'e patterns can drive significant band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-01 Nathan R. Finney , Matthew Yankowitz , Lithurshanaa Muraleetharan , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , Cory R. Dean , James Hone

We investigate the many-body instabilities of electrons interacting near Van Hove singularities arising in monolayer and twisted bilayer graphene. We show that a pairing instability must be dominant over the tendency to magnetic order as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 J. Gonzalez

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 multilayer systems, encompassing materials like twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), twisted trilayer graphene, and twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides, have garnered significant attention in condensed matter physics.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-23 Citian Wang , Huaqing Huang

Two-dimensional systems with flat bands support correlated phases such as superconductivity and charge fractionalization. While twisted moire systems like twisted bilayer graphene have revealed such states, they remain complex to control.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 Elias Andrade , Alejandro Jimeno-Pozo , Pierre A. Pantaleon , Francisco Guinea , Gerardo G. Naumis

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) provides a unique framework to elucidate the interplay between strong correlations and topological phenomena in two-dimensional systems. The existence of multiple electronic degrees of freedom -- charge, spin,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-27 Yuan Da Liao , Jian Kang , Clara N. Breiø , Xiao Yan Xu , Han-Qing Wu , Brian M. Andersen , Rafael M. Fernandes , Zi Yang Meng

Despite the structures and properties of tilt grain boundaries of graphite surface and graphene have been extensively studied, their effect on the structures and electronic spectra of graphene layers has not been fully addressed. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-13 Long-Jing Yin , Jia-Bin Qiao , Wen-Xiao Wang , Zhao-Dong Chu , Kai Fen Zhang , Rui-Fen Dou , Chun Lei Gao , Jin-Feng Jia , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He