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We show that bilayer graphene in the presence of a 2D superlattice potential provides a highly tunable setup that can realize a variety of flat band phenomena. We focus on two regimes: (i) topological flat bands with non-zero Chern numbers,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Aaron Dunbrack , Ahmed Abouelkomsan , Jiacheng Sun , Xu Du , Jennifer Cano

We demonstrate that a single layer of graphene subject to a superlattice potential nearly commensurate to a $\sqrt{3} \times \sqrt{3}$ supercell exactly maps to the chiral model of twisted bilayer graphene, albeit with half as many degrees…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-18 Valentin Crépel , Aaron Dunbrack , Daniele Guerci , John Bonini , Jennifer Cano

Stackings in graphene have a pivotal role in properties to be discussed in the future, as seen in the recently found superconductivity of twisted bilayer graphene. Beyond bilayer graphene, the stacking order of multilayer graphene can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-12 Raúl Guerrero-Avilés , Marta Pelc , Fabian Geisenhof , Thomas Weitz , Andrés Ayuela

Fractional quantum anomalous Hall effects realized in twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ and multilayer-graphene-based moir\'e heterostructures have captured a tremendous growth of interest. In this work, we propose that rhombohedral multilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Yanran Shi , Bo Xie , Fengfan Ren , Xinyu Cai , Zhongqing Guo , Qiao Li , Xin Lu , Nicolas Regnault , Zhongkai Liu , Jianpeng Liu

'Magic'-angle twisted bilayer graphene has received a lot of interest due to its flat bands with potentially non-trivial topology that lead to intricate correlated phases. A spectrum with flat bands, however, does not require a twist…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Anastasiia Skurativska , Stepan S. Tsirkin , Fabian D Natterer , Titus Neupert , Mark H Fischer

Moir\'e materials host a wealth of intertwined correlated and topological states of matter, all arising from flat electronic bands with nontrivial quantum geometry. A prominent example is the family of alternating-twist magic-angle graphene…

Recent introduction of superlattice potentials has opened new avenues for engineering tunable electronic band structures featuring topologically nontrivial moir\'{e}-like bands. Here we consider optoelectronic properties of Bernal-stacked…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Nabil Atlam , Swati Chaudhary , Arpit Raj , Matthew Matzelle , Barun Ghosh , Gregory A. Fiete , Arun Bansil

Interactions between stacked two-dimensional (2D) atomic crystals can radically change their properties, leading to essentially new materials in terms of the electronic structure. Here we show that monolayers placed on an atomically flat…

Moir\'e-pattern based potential engineering has become an important way to explore exotic physics in a variety of two-dimensional condensed matter systems. While these potentials have induced correlated phenomena in almost all commonly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-19 Mohammed M. Al Ezzi , Junxiong Hu , Ariando , Francisco Guinea , Shaffique Adam

Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene modulated by a superlattice potential is a highly tunable system predicted to realize isolated topological flat bands. In this work we calculate the band structure and quantum geometry of bilayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-12 Dathan Ault-McCoy , M. Nabil Y. Lhachemi , Aaron Dunbrack , Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Jennifer Cano

Theoretical and experimental studies have verified the existence of ``magic angles'' in twisted bilayer graphene, where the twist between layers gives rise to flat bands and consequently highly correlated phases. Narrow bands can also exist…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-20 D. C. W. Foo , Z. Zhan , Mohammed M. Al Ezzi , L. Peng , S. Adam , F. Guinea

Superlattice potential modulation can produce flat minibands in Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene. In this work we study how band topology and interaction-induced symmetry-broken phases in this system are controlled by tuning the displacement…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-04 Yongxin Zeng , Tobias M. R. Wolf , Chunli Huang , Nemin Wei , Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Allan H. MacDonald , Jennifer Cano

We study the superlattice minibands produced by the interplay between moir\'e pattern induced by hexagonal BN substrate on graphene layer and the interlayer coupling in bilayer graphene with Bernal stacking (BLG). We compare moir\'e…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-20 M. Mucha-Kruczynski , J. Wallbank , V. I. Fal'ko

This article reviews progress in the theoretical modelling of the electronic structure of rotationally faulted multilayer graphenes. In these systems the crystallographic axes of neighboring layers are misaligned so that the layer stacking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 E. J. Mele

For the chiral limit of two sheets of $n$-layer Bernal-stacked graphene established in the Physical Review Letters arXiv:2109.10325 and arXiv:2109.11514, we prove a trichotomy: depending on the twisting angle, we have either (1)…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Bryan Li , Mengxuan Yang

Most studies on moir\'e superlattices formed from a stack of h-BN and graphene have focused on single layer graphene; graphene with multiple layers is less understood. Here, we show that a moir\'e superlattice of multilayer graphene shows…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-02 Fumiya Mukai , Kota Horii , Ryoya Ebisuoka , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ryuta Yagi

The topological electronic structure of crystalline materials often gives rise to intriguing surface states, such as Dirac surface states in topological insulators, Fermi arc surface states in Dirac semimetals, and topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Wenqiang Zhou , Jing Ding , Jiannan Hua , Le Zhang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Wei Zhu , Shuigang Xu

The discovery of superconductivity and correlated electronic states in the flat bands of twisted bilayer graphene has raised a lot of excitement. Flat bands also occur in multilayer graphene flakes that present rhombohedral (ABC) stacking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Jean Paul Nery , Matteo Calandra , Francesco Mauri

A bipartite lattice with chiral symmetry is known to host zero energy flat bands if the numbers of the two sublattices are different. We demonstrate that this mechanism of producing flat bands can be realized on graphene by introducing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Matheus S. M. de Sousa , Fujun Liu , Fanyao Qu , Wei Chen

We study the electronic structure of multilayer graphenes with a mixture of Bernal and rhombohedral stacking and propose a general scheme to understand the electronic band structure of an arbitrary configuration. The system can be viewed as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Mikito Koshino , Edward McCann
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