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Strain, both naturally occurring and deliberately engineered, can have a considerable effect on the structural and electronic properties of 2D and layered materials. Uniaxial or biaxial heterostrain modifies the stacking arrangement of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-19 Nina C. Georgoulea , Stephen R. Power , Nuala M. Caffrey

In magic angle twisted bilayer graphene, electron-electron interactions play a central role resulting in correlated insulating states at certain integer fillings. Identifying the nature of these insulators is a central question and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-19 Nick Bultinck , Eslam Khalaf , Shang Liu , Shubhayu Chatterjee , Ashvin Vishwanath , Michael P. Zaletel

Symmetry breaking is an effective tool for tuning the transport and topological properties of 2D layered materials. Among these materials, twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) has emerged as a promising platform for new physics, characterized by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 Cunyuan Jiang , Matteo Baggioli , Qing-Dong Jiang

Twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) devices with ion gel gate dielectrics are studied using Raman spectroscopy in the twist angle regime where a resonantly enhanced G band can be observed. We observe prominent splitting and intensity quenching…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-18 Ting-Fung Chung , Rui He , Tai-Lung Wu , Yong P. Chen

Graphene moir\'e systems are ideal environments for investigating complex phase diagrams and gaining fundamental insights into the mechanisms underlying exotic states of matter, as they permit controlled manipulation of electronic…

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) has attracted significant interest recently due to the discoveries of diverse correlated and topological states in this system. Despite the extensive research on the electron-electron interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-13 Xiaoqian Liu , Ran Peng , Zhaoru Sun , Jianpeng Liu

The discovery of correlated states and superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) has established moir\'e quantum matter as a new platform to explore interaction-driven and topological quantum phenomena. Multitudes of…

The coexistence of superconducting and correlated insulating states in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene prompts fascinating questions about the relationship of these orders. Independent control of the microscopic mechanisms governing…

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) hosts nearly flat bands with narrow bandwidths of a few meV at certain {\em magic} twist angles. Here we show that in twisted gapped Dirac material bilayers, or massive twisted bilayer graphenes (MTBG),…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Srivani Javvaji , Jinhua Sun , Jeil Jung

We analytically study the orbital response of alternating-twist graphene systems with four and five layers to an in-plane magnetic field, using the unitary transformation introduced by Khalaf et al. (Phys. Rev. B 100, 085109 (2019)). This…

We consider twisted bilayer graphene on a transition metal dichalcogenide substrate, where proximity-induced spin-orbit coupling significantly alters the eight flat bands which occur near the magic angle. The resulting band structure…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-24 Tianle Wang , Nick Bultinck , Michael P. Zaletel

Despite much theoretical work, developing a comprehensive ab initio model for twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) has proven challenging due to the inherent trade-off between accurately describing the band structure and incorporating the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-25 Run Hou , Shouvik Sur , Lucas K. Wagner , Andriy H. Nevidomskyy

We investigate the effect of a magnetic field on the band structure of bilayer graphene with a magic twist angle of 1.08{\deg}. The coupling of a tight-binding model and the Peierls phase allows the calculation of the energy bands of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-20 Gaëlle Bigeard , Alessandro Cresti

The electronic properties of moir\'e heterostructures depend sensitively on the relative orientation between layers of the stack. For example, near-magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) commonly shows superconductivity, yet a TBG…

We show that the recently observed superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) can be explained as a consequence of the Kohn-Luttinger (KL) instability which leads to an effective attraction between electrons with originally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-21 J. González , T. Stauber

Graphene's electronic structure can be fundamentally altered when a substrate- or adatom-induced Kekul\'e superlattice couples the valley and isospin degrees of freedom. Here, we show that the band structure of Kekul\'e-textured graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 David A. Ruiz-Tijerina , Elias Andrade , Ramon Carrillo-Bastos , Francisco Mireles , Gerardo G. Naumis

The emergence of flat electronic bands and of the recently discovered strongly correlated and superconducting phases in twisted bilayer graphene crucially depends on the interlayer twist angle upon approaching the magic angle $\theta_M…

Twist bilayer graphenes with magical angle have nearly flat band, which become strongly correlated electron systems. Herein, we propose another system based on strained bilayer graphene that have flat band at the intrinsic Fermi level. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-28 Ma Luo

Moir\'e superlattices in twisted homo-bilayers have revealed exotic electronic states, including unconventional superconductivity and correlated insulating phases. However, their fabrication process often introduces moir\'e disorders,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-13 Zeyu Liu , Xianghua Kong , Zewen Wu , Linwei Zhou , Jingsi Qiao , Wei Ji

By tuning the angle between graphene layers to specific "magic angles" the lowest energy bands of twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) can be made flat. The flat nature of the bands favors the formation of collective ground states and, in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-12-09 Xiang Hu , Timo Hyart , Dmitry I. Pikulin , Enrico Rossi