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We introduce and analyze a model that sheds light on the interplay between correlated insulating states, superconductivity, and flavor-symmetry breaking in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene. Using a variational mean-field theory, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-14 Gal Shavit , Erez Berg , Ady Stern , Yuval Oreg

The stacking and bending of graphene are trivial but extremely powerful agents of control over graphene's manifold physics. By changing the twist angle, one can drive the system over a plethora of exotic states via strong electron…

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The origin of superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has been a subject of intense debate. While some experimental evidence indicated an unconventional pairing mechanism, efforts to tune the critical temperature by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Julien Barrier , Liangtao Peng , Shuigang Xu , V. I. Fal'ko , K. Watanabe , T. Tanigushi , A. K. Geim , S. Adam , Alexey I. Berdyugin

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) combines in one single material different phases like insulating, metallic and superconducting. These phases and their in-situ tunability make MATBG an important platform for the fabrication of…

The folding of monolayer graphene leads to new layered systems, termed twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), generally displaying a certain interlayer rotation away from crystallographic alignment. We here present an atomic force microscopy study…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-30 Johannes C. Rode , Christopher Belke , Hennrik Schmidt , Rolf J. Haug

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

Ferromagnetism and superconductivity typically compete with each other since the internal magnetic field generated in a magnet suppresses the formation of spin-singlet Cooper pairs in conventional superconductors. Only a handful of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-09 Xiaomeng Liu , Zeyu Hao , Eslam Khalaf , Jong Yeon Lee , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ashvin Vishwanath , Philip Kim

Interactions among electrons and the topology of their energy bands can create novel quantum phases of matter. Most topological electronic phases appear in systems with weak electron-electron interactions. The instances where topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-25 Kevin P. Nuckolls , Myungchul Oh , Dillon Wong , Biao Lian , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , B. Andrei Bernevig , Ali Yazdani

Biased bilayer graphene (BBG) is an important system for studies of excitonic effects in graphene--based systems, with its easily tunable bandgap. This bandgap is governed by an external gate voltage, allowing one to tune the optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-02 M. F. C. Martins Quintela , N. M. R. Peres , T. Garm Pedersen

High quality epitaxial graphene films can be applied as templates for tailoring graphene-substrate interfaces that allow for precise control of the charge carrier behavior in graphene through doping and many-body effects. By combining…

The recent advent of artificial structures has triggered the emergence of fascinating phenomena that could not exist in natural compounds. A prime example is twisted multilayers, i.e., moir\'e superlattices represented by magic-angle…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-11-13 Shun Asano , Youichi Yanase

Compared to monolayer graphene, electrons in Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene (BLG) have an additional layer degree of freedom, offering a platform for developing {\it layered spintronics} with the help of proximity-induced magnetism. Based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Xuechao Zhai , Yaroslav M. Blanter

The effective theory for bilayer graphene (BLG), subject to parallel/in-plane magnetic fields, is derived. With a sizable magnetic field the trigonal warping becomes irrelevant, and one ends up with two Dirac points in the vicinity of each…

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The transmission across a graphene bilayer region is calculated for two different types of connections to monolayer leads. A transfer matrix algorithm based on a tight binding model is developed to obtain the ballistic transmission beyond…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Hadi Z. Olyaei , Pedro Ribeiro , Eduardo V. Castro

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), with rotational misalignment close to 1.1$^\circ$, features isolated flat electronic bands that host a rich phase diagram of correlated insulating, superconducting, ferromagnetic, and topological…

In this work, we study the synergistic correlated states in two distinct types of interacting electronic systems coupled by interlayer Coulomb interactions. We propose that this scenario can be realized in a type of Coulomb-coupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Xin Lu , Shihao Zhang , Yaning Wang , Xiang Gao , Kaining Yang , Zhongqing Guo , Yuchen Gao , Yu Ye , Zheng Vitto Han , Jianpeng Liu

We investigate the electronic structure of graphene monolayers subjected to patterned dielectric superlattices. Through a quantum capacitance model approach, we simulate realistic devices capable of imposing periodic potentials on graphene.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-27 Zhen Zhan , Yonggang Li , Pierre A. Pantaleon

In magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG), the moir\'e superlattice potential gives rise to narrow electronic bands1 which support a multitude of many-body quantum phases. Further richness arises in the presence of a perpendicular…

We study the band structure of phases induced by depositing bilayer graphene on a transition metal dichalcogenide monolayer. Tight-binding and low-energy effective Hamiltonian calculations show that it is possible to induce topologically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-20 Abdulrhman M. Alsharari , Mahmoud M. Asmar , Sergio E. Ulloa

Electrons residing in flat-band system can play a vital role in triggering spectacular phenomenology due to relatively large interactions and spontaneous breaking of different degeneracies. In this work we demonstrate chirally twisted…