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Magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) presents a fascinating platform for investigating the effects of electron interactions in topological flat bands. The Bistritzer-MacDonald (BM) model provides a simplified quantitative…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-11 Zhi-Yu Xiao , Shiwei Zhang

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) has drawn significant interest due to recent experiments which show that TBG can exhibit strongly correlated behavior such as the superconducting and correlated insulator phases. Much of the theoretical work…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 Tianyu Kong , Alexander B. Watson , Mitchell Luskin , Kevin D. Stubbs

The Bistritzer-MacDonald continuum model (BM model) describes the low-energy moir\'e bands for twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) at small twist angles. We derive a generalized continuum model for TBG near any commensurate twist angle, which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-20 Michael G. Scheer , Kaiyuan Gu , Biao Lian

One of the most remarkable theoretical findings in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) is the emergence of ferromagnetic Slater determinants as exact ground states for the interacting Hamiltonian at the chiral limit. This discovery…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Simon Becker , Lin Lin , Kevin D. Stubbs

The Bistritzer-MacDonald (BM) model, introduced in \cite{Bistritzer2011}, attempts to capture the electronic properties of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), even at incommensurate twist angles, by an effective periodic model over the bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Alexander B. Watson , Tianyu Kong , Allan H. MacDonald , Mitchell Luskin

Electron interactions in quantum materials fundamentally shape their energy bands and, with them, the material's most intriguing quantum phases. Magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) has emerged as a model system, where flat bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 J. Xiao , A. Inbar , J. Birkbeck , N. Gershon , Y. Zamir , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , E. Berg , S. Ilani

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

We present an infinite density-matrix renormalization group (DMRG) study of an interacting continuum model of twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) near the magic angle. Because of the long-range Coulomb interaction and the large number of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-18 Tomohiro Soejima , Daniel E. Parker , Nick Bultinck , Johannes Hauschild , 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

Magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) hosts narrow moir\'e bands with meV-scale energy splittings, making its correlated phases sensitive to both material parameters and modeling choices in low-energy downfolding. We develop an ab…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-12 Raehyun Kim , Woochang Kim , Kevin D. Stubbs , Steven G. Louie , Lin Lin

We use self-consistent Hartree-Fock calculations performed in the full $\pi$-band Hilbert space to assess the nature of the recently discovered correlated insulator states in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG). We find that gaps…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-11 Ming Xie , Allan H. MacDonald

At a magic relative twist angle, magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) has an octet of flat bands that can host strong correlation physics when partially filled. A key theoretical discovery in MATBG is the existence of ferromagnetic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-03-27 Kevin D. Stubbs , Michael Ragone , Allan H. MacDonald , Lin Lin

Strongly correlated states are commonly emerged in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) with magic-angle, where the electron-electron (e-e) interaction U becomes prominent relative to the small bandwidth W of the nearly flat band. However, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-11 Kaihui Li , Long-Jing Yin , Chenglong Che , Xueying Liu , Yulong Xiao , Songlong Liu , Qingjun Tong , Si-Yu Li , Anlian Pan

In this article, we analyse the Bistritzer--MacDonald (BM) model (also known as the continuum model) of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) with an additional external magnetic field. We provide an explicit semiclassical asymptotic expansion of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-05 Simon Becker , Jihoi Kim , Xiaowen Zhu

Recently, Ref. [1] reformulated magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) as a topological heavy fermion problem, and used this reformulation to provide a deeper understanding for the correlated phases at integer fillings. In this work,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-21 Jiabin Yu , Ming Xie , B. Andrei Bernevig , Sankar Das Sarma

The dominance of Coulomb interactions over kinetic energy of electrons in narrow, non-trivial moir\'{e} bands of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) gives rise to a variety of correlated phases such as correlated insulators,…

We introduce a complete physical model for the single-particle electronic structure of twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG), which incorporates the crucial role of lattice relaxation. Our model, based on $k \cdot p$ perturbation theory, combines…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Stephen Carr , Shiang Fang , Ziyan Zhu , Efthimios Kaxiras

The rich phenomenology of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) near the magic angle is believed to arise from electron correlations in topological flat bands. An unbiased approach to this problem is highly desirable, but also particularly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-28 Johannes S. Hofmann , Eslam Khalaf , Ashvin Vishwanath , Erez Berg , Jong Yeon Lee

Flat electronic bands, characteristic of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), host a wealth of correlated phenomena. Early theoretical considerations suggested that, at the magic angle, the Dirac velocity vanishes and the entire…

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has recently become a thriving material platform realizing correlated electron phenomena taking place within its topological flat bands. Several numerical and analytical methods have been applied to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-17 Bin-Bin Chen , Yuan Da Liao , Ziyu Chen , Oskar Vafek , Jian Kang , Wei Li , Zi Yang Meng
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