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We argue that moir\'e bilayer graphene at charge neutrality hosts a continuous semimetal-to-insulator quantum phase transition that can be accessed experimentally by tuning the twist angle between the two layers. For small twist angles near…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Jan Biedermann , Lukas Janssen

Moir\'e superlattice in twisted bilayer graphene has been proven to be a versatile platform for exploring exotic quantum phases. Extensive investigations have been invoked focusing on the zero-magnetic-field phase diagram at the magic twist…

The interplay between interlayer van der Waals interaction and intralayer lattice distortion can lead to structural reconstruction in slightly twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) with the twist angle being smaller than a characteristic angle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-07 Yi-Wen Liu , Ying Su , Xiao-Feng Zhou , Long-Jing Yin , Chao Yan , Si-Yu Li , Wei Yan , Sheng Han , Zhong-Qiu Fu , Yu Zhang , Qian Yang , Ya-Ning Ren , Lin He

Large-angle twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) is known to be electronically decoupled due to the spatial separation of the Dirac cones corresponding to individual graphene layers in the reciprocal space. The close spacing between the layers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-28 Alina Mrenca-Kolasinska , Peter Rickhaus , Giulia Zheng , Klaus Richter , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin , Ming-Hao Liu

We investigate the topological heavy-fermion (THF) model of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) in the projected limit, where only the flat bands are present in the low-energy spectrum. Such limit has been previously analyzed in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-20 Haoyu Hu , Zhi-Da Song , B. Andrei Bernevig

We study the atomic and electronic structures of the commensurate double moir\'{e} superlattices in fully relaxed twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) nearly aligned with the hexagonal boron nitride (BN). The single-particle effective Hamiltonian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-31 Xianqing Lin , Jun Ni

Although much progress has been made on the physics of magic angle twisted bilayer graphene at integer fillings, little attention has been given to fractional fillings. Here we show that the three-peak structure of Wannier orbitals,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-31 Kevin Zhang , Yang Zhang , Liang Fu , Eun-Ah Kim

We present a systematic study of the energy levels of twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) quantum dots (QD) and rings (QR) under an external perpendicular magnetic field. The confinement structures are modeled by a circular dot-like- and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-17 N. S. Bandeira , Andrey Chaves , L. V. de Castro , R. N. Costa Filho , M. Mirzakhani , F. M. Peeters , D. R. da Costa

Bilayer graphene is a nanomaterial that allows for well-defined, separated quantum states to be defined by electrostatic gating and, therefore, provides an attractive platform to construct tunable quantum dots. When a magnetic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-23 Jozef Bucko , Frank Schäfer , František Herman , Rebekka Garreis , Chuyao Tong , Annika Kurzmann , Thomas Ihn , Eliska Greplova

In the magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MA-TBG), strong electron-electron (e-e) correlations caused by the band-flattening lead to many exotic quantum phases such as superconductivity, correlated insulator, ferromagnetism, and quantum…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-29 Ya-Ning Ren , Chen Lu , Yu Zhang , Si-Yu Li , Yi-Wen Liu , Chao Yan , Zi-Han Guo , Cheng-Cheng Liu , Fan Yang , Lin He

The unusual properties of superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) have sparked enormous research interest. However, despite the dedication of intensive experimental efforts and the proposal of several possible…

We present a comprehensive first-principles study of twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) for a wide range of twist angles, with a focus on structural and electronic properties. By employing density functional theory (DFT) with an optimized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Albert Zhu , Daniel Bennett , Daniel T. Larson , Mohammed M. Al Ezzi , Efstratios Manousakis , Efthimios Kaxiras

We develop a model to describe the mixed valence regime in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) using the recently developed heavy-fermion framework. By employing the large-$N$ slave-boson approach, we derive the self-consistent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-16 Yantao Li , Benjamin M. Fregoso , Maxim Dzero

We implement a self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation based on a microscopic model in real space, which allows us to consider the interplay between the Hubbard and the extended Coulomb interaction in twisted bilayer graphene at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 J. Gonzalez , T. Stauber

We use stochastic expansion and exact diagonalization to study the magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) on a disordered substrate. We show that the substrate-induced strong Coulomb disorder in TBG with the chemical potential at the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-08-09 Chenan Wei , Tigran A. Sedrakyan

We show that the entire continuous model of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) (and not just the two active bands) with particle-hole symmetry is anomalous and hence incompatible with a lattice model. Previous works, e.g., [Phys. Rev. Lett.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-29 Zhi-Da Song , Biao Lian , Nicolas Regnault , B. Andrei Bernevig

We calculate the interactions between the Wannier functions of the 8-orbital model for twisted bilayer graphene (TBG). In this model, two orbitals per valley centered at the AA regions, the AA-p orbitals, account for the most part of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-04 M. J. Calderón , E. Bascones

We study the interacting transport properties of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) using the topological heavy-fermion (THF) model. In the THF model, TBG comprises localized, correlated $f$-electrons and itinerant, dispersive $c$-electrons. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-23 Dumitru Călugăru , Haoyu Hu , Rafael Luque Merino , Nicolas Regnault , Dmitri K. Efetov , B. Andrei Bernevig

Using the continuum model, we investigate the electronic properties of two types of bilayer graphene (BLG) quantum ring (QR) geometries: (i) an isolated BLG QR and (ii) a monolayer graphene (MLG) with a QR put on top of an infinite graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 M. Mirzakhani , D. R. da Costa , F. M. Peeters

Stacking order has strong influence on the coupling between the two layers of twisted bilayer graphene (BLG), which in turn determines its physical properties. Here, we report the investigation of the interlayer coupling of the epitaxially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-28 Bing Deng , Binbin Wang , Ning Li , Rongtan Li , Yani Wang , Jilin Tang , Qiang Fu , Zhen Tian , Peng Gao , Jiamin Xue , Hailin Peng