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Twisted $N$-layer graphene (TNG) moir\'e structures have recently been shown to exhibit robust superconductivity similar to twisted bilayer graphene (TBG). In particular for $N=4$ and $N=5$, the phase diagram features a superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-18 Kryštof Kolář , Yiran Zhang , Stevan Nadj-Perge , Felix von Oppen , Cyprian Lewandowski

In stacks of two-dimensional crystals, mismatch of their lattice constants and misalignment of crystallographic axes lead to formation of moir\'{e} patterns. We show that moir\'{e} superlattice effects persist in twisted bilayer graphene…

The effect of an hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) layer close aligned with twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) is studied. At sufficiently low angles between twisted bilayer graphene and hBN, $\theta_{hBN} \lesssim 2^\circ$, the graphene electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-28 Tommaso Cea , Pierre A. Pantaleon , Francisco Guinea

So far the physics of moir\'e graphene bilayers at large, incommensurate rotation angles has been considered uninteresting. It has been held that the interlayer coupling in such structures is weak and the system can be thought of as a pair…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-01 Hridis K. Pal , Stephen Spitz , Markus Kindermann

It is a matter of current debate whether the gate-tunable superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene is phonon-mediated or arises from electron-electron interactions. The recent observation of the strong coupling of electrons to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-20 Glenn Wagner , Yves H. Kwan , Nick Bultinck , Steven H. Simon , S. A. Parameswaran

Experimental studies on moir\'e materials have predominantly focused on twisted hexagonal lattice with low-energy states near the $\Gamma$- or K-points, where the electronic dispersion is typically isotropic. In contrast, we introduce a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Kejie Bao , Huan Wang , Zhaochen Liu , Jing Wang

Propagating atomic vibrational waves, phonons, rule important thermal, mechanical, optoelectronic and transport characteristics of materials. Thus the knowledge of phonon dispersion, namely the dependence of vibrational energy on momentum…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-09 Ryosuke Senga , Kazu Suenaga , Paolo Barone , Shigeyuki Morishita , Francesco Mauri , Thomas Pichler

ABC-stacked trilayer graphene/hBN moir\'e superlattice (TLG/hBN) has emerged as a playground for correlated electron physics. We report spectroscopy measurements of dual-gated TLG/hBN using Fourier transformed infrared photocurrent…

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

In binary compound 2D insulators/semiconductors such as hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), the different electron affinities of atoms can give rise to out-of-plane electric polarizations across inversion asymmetric van der Waals interface of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-04 Hongyi Yu , Ziheng Zhou , Wang Yao

We investigate the electronic structure and the optical absorption onset of close-to-30\degree twisted hexagonal boron nitride bilayers. Our study is carried out with a purposely developed tight-binding model validated against DFT…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-22 Lorenzo Sponza , Van Binh Vu , Elisa Serrano Richaud , Hakim Amara , Sylvain Latil

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

We have studied electron scattering by out-of-plane (flexural) phonons in doped suspended bilayer graphene. We have found the bilayer membrane to follow the qualitative behavior of the monolayer cousin. In the bilayer, different electronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-08-04 H. Ochoa , Eduardo V. Castro , M. I. Katsnelson , F. Guinea

Heterostructures of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) offer unique opportunities in optoelectronics due to their strong light-matter interaction and the formation of dipolar interlayer excitons. Introducing a twist angle or lattice…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-16 Giuseppe Meneghini , Samuel Brem , Ermin Malic

We demonstrate that the concept of moir\'e flat bands can be generalized to achieve electronic band engineering in all three spatial dimensions. For many two dimensional van der Waals materials, twisting two adjacent layers with respect to…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-05 Lede Xian , Ammon Fischer , Martin Claassen , Jin Zhang , Angel Rubio , Dante M. Kennes

We report intriguing and hitherto overlooked low-field room temperature extremely large magnetoresistance (XMR) patterns in graphene/hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) superlattices that emerge due to the existence of open orbits within each…

Rhombohedral multilayer graphene has emerged as a powerful platform for investigating flat-band-driven correlated phenomena, yet most aspects remain not understood. In this work, we systematically study the moire-dependent band topology in…

We investigate the electronic structure of the flat bands induced by moir\'e superlattices and electric fields in nearly aligned ABC trilayer graphene-boron nitride interfaces where Coulomb effects can lead to correlated gapped phases. Our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Bheema Lingam Chittari , Guorui Chen , Yuanbo Zhang , Feng Wang , Jeil Jung

Due to its incommensurate nature, moir\'e superlattices host not only acoustic phonons but also another type of soft collective modes called phasons. Here, we investigate the impact of electron-phason scattering on the transport properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Héctor Ochoa , Rafael M. Fernandes

In this Letter, we derive an effective theory of graphene on a hexagonal Boron Nitride (h-BN) substrate. We show that the h-BN substrate generically opens a spectral gap in graphene despite the lattice mismatch. The origin of that gap is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-12 M. Kindermann , Bruno Uchoa , D. L. Miller