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Twisted graphene multilayers exhibit strongly correlated insulating states and superconductivity due to the presence of ultraflat bands near the charge neutral point. In this paper, the response of ultraflat bands to lattice relaxation and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-08 Zewen Wu , Zhen Zhan , Shengjun Yuan

It was recently argued that Bernal stacked bilayer graphene (BLG) exposed to a 2D superlattice (SL) potential exhibits a variety of intriguing behaviors [Ghorashi et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 196201 (2023)]. Chief among them is the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-19 Daniel Seleznev , Jennifer Cano , David Vanderbilt

We formulate the chiral decomposition rules that govern the electronic structure of a broad family of twisted $N+M$ multilayer graphene configurations that combine arbitrary stacking order and a mutual twist. We show that at the magic angle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-20 ShengNan Zhang , Bo Xie , QuanSheng Wu , Jianpeng Liu , Oleg V. Yazyev

Intrinsic rhombohedral graphene hosts an unusual low-energy electronic wavefunction, predominantly localized at its outer crystal faces with negligible presence in the bulk. Increasing the number of graphene layers amplifies the density of…

Van der Waals heterostructures comprise a new class of artificial materials formed by stacking atomically-thin planar crystals. Here, we demonstrate band structure engineering of a van der Waals heterostructure composed of a monolayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-22 B. Hunt , J. D. Sanchez-Yamagishi , A. F. Young , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , P. Moon , M. Koshino , P. Jarillo-Herrero , R. C. Ashoori

Our goal is to provide precise effective operators for monolayer graphene at Fermi energy. We consider the microscopic potential created by a lattice, and add a macroscopic potential with the same periodicity but varying at a scale…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Louis Garrigue

We show that intervalley coupling can be induced in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) by aligning the bottom graphene layer with either of two types of commensurate insulating triangular Bravais lattice substrate. The intervalley coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Bo-Ting Chen , Michael G. Scheer , Biao Lian

Materials with flat electronic bands often exhibit exotic quantum phenomena owing to strong correlations. Remarkably, an isolated low-energy flat band can be induced in bilayer graphene by simply rotating the layers to 1.1$^{\circ}$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Matthew Yankowitz , Shaowen Chen , Hryhoriy Polshyn , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , David Graf , Andrea F. Young , Cory R. Dean

Moir\'e superlattices in graphene supported on various substrates have opened a new avenue to engineer graphene's electronic properties. Yet, the exact crystallographic structure on which their band structure depends remains highly debated.…

We apply the semi-classical quantum Boltzmann formalism for the computation of transport properties to multilayer graphene. We compute the electrical conductivity as well as the thermal conductivity and thermopower for Bernal-stacked…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Glenn Wagner , Dung X. Nguyen , Steven H. Simon

The intrinsic channel properties of monolayer and multilayer graphene were systematically investigated as a function of layer number by the exclusion of contact resistance using four-probe measurements. We show that the continuous change in…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 Kosuke Nagashio , Tomonori Nishimura , Koji Kita , Akira Toriumi

The group of moir\'e graphene superconductors keeps growing, and by now it contains twisted graphene multilayers and twisted double bilayers. We analyze the contribution of long range charge fluctuations in the superconductivity of twisted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-05 Min Long , Alejandro Jimeno-Pozo , Hector Sainz-Cruz , Pierre A. Pantaleon , Francisco Guinea

A striking series of experiments have observed superconductivity in Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene (BBG) when the energy bands are flattened by applying an electrical displacement field. Intriguingly, superconductivity manifests only at…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-03 Glenn Wagner , Yves H. Kwan , Nick Bultinck , Steven H. Simon , S. A. Parameswaran

We explore the electronic ground states of Bernal-stacked multilayer graphenes using the Hartree-Fock mean-field approximation and the full-parameter band model. We find that the electron-electron interaction tends to open a band gap in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-05 Mikito Koshino , Kyoka Sugisawa , Edward McCann

Quantum confinement endows two-dimensional (2D) layered materials with exceptional physics and novel properties compared to their bulk counterparts. Although certain two- and few-layer configurations of graphene have been realized and…

Coupling photonic cavity fields to electronic degrees of freedom in 2D materials introduces an additional control knob to the toolbox of solid-state engineering. Here we demonstrate a subtle competition between cavity frequency and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Jennifer Cano , Ceren B. Dag

The recently observed unconventional ferroelectricity in AB bilayer graphene sandwiched by hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) presents a new platform to manipulate correlated phases in multilayered van der Waals heterostructures. We present a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Ziyan Zhu , Stephen Carr , Qiong Ma , Efthimios Kaxiras

The electronic properties of van der Waals (vdW) structures can be substantially modified by the moire superlattice potential, which strongly depends on the twist angle among the compounds. In twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), two low-energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-02 Ya-Ning Ren , Yu Zhang , Yi-Wen Liu , Lin He

We propose potential geometry for fabrication of the graphite sheets with atomically smooth edges. For such sheets with Bernal stacking, the electron-electron interaction and topology should cause sufficiently high density of states…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-09-20 G. E. Volovik , V. M. Pudalov

There has been a lot of excitement around the observation of superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene, associated to flat bands close to the Fermi level. Such correlated electronic states also occur in multilayer rhombohedral stacked…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-26 Jean Paul Nery , Matteo Calandra , Francesco Mauri