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Twistronics, which exploits moire modulation of lattice and electronic structures in twisted bilayers, has emerged as a powerful approach to engineer novel quantum states. Recent efforts have expanded beyond two dimensional van der Waals…

Moir\'e heterostructures consisting of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) hetero- and homobilayers have emerged as a promising material platform to study correlated electronic states. Optical signatures of strong correlations in the form…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-10 Natasha Kiper , Haydn S. Adlong , Arthur Christianen , Martin Kroner , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Atac Imamoglu

Recent experiments have observed possible spin- and valley-polarized insulators and spin-triplet superconductivity in twisted double bilayer graphene, a moire structure consisting of a pair of Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene. Besides the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-12 Yi-Ting Hsu , Fengcheng Wu , S. Das Sarma

Twisted graphene bilayers provide a versatile platform to engineer metamaterials with novel emergent properties by exploiting the resulting geometric moir\'{e} superlattice. Such superlattices are known to host bulk valley currents at tiny…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 T. M. R. Wolf , J. L. Lado , G. Blatter , O. Zilberberg

We investigate the mesoscopic transport through a twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) consisting of a clean graphene nanoribbon on the bottom and a disordered graphene disc on the top. We show that, with strong top-layer disorder the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Zhe Hou , Ya-Yun Hu , Guang-Wen Yang

Overlaying two graphene layers with a small twist angle can create a moire superlattice to realize exotic phenomena that are entirely absent in graphene monolayer. A representative example is the predicted formation of localized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Qi Zheng , Chen-Yue Hao , Xiao-Feng Zhou , Ya-Xin Zhao , Jia-Qi He , Lin He

We report on the energy spectrum of electrons in twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) obtained by the band-unfolding method in the tight-binding model. We find the band-gap opening at particular points in the reciprocal space, that elucidates…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-08 Hirofumi Nishi , Yu-ichiro Matsushita , Atsushi Oshiyama

Since the discovery of superconductive twisted bilayer graphene which initiated the field of twistronics, moir\'e systems have not ceased to exhibit fascinating properties. We demonstrate that in boron nitride twisted bilayers, for a given…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-29 Sylvain Latil , Hakim Amara , Lorenzo Sponza

Atomistic first principles many-body computational studies were so far limited by the system size. In this work, we apply and expand the stochastic GW method allowing calculations of quasiparticle energies of giant systems. We introduce…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-11-05 Mariya Romanova , Vojtech Vlcek

We investigate the bandwidth compression due to out of plane pressure of the moire flatbands near charge neutrality in twisted bilayer graphene for a continuous range of small rotation angles of up to $\sim2.5^{\circ}$. The flatband…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Bheema Lingam Chittari , Nicolas Leconte , Srivani Javvaji , Jeil Jung

We investigate twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG), a four-layer system composed of two AB-stacked graphene bilayers rotated with respect to each other by a small angle. Our ab initio band structure calculations reveal a considerable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Fatemeh Haddadi , QuanSheng Wu , Alex J. Kruchkov , Oleg V. Yazyev

In stacks of two-dimensional crystals, mismatch of their lattice constants and misalignment of crystallographic axes lead to formation of moir\'{e} patterns. We show that moir\'{e} superlattice effects persist in twisted bilayer graphene…

We apply a multiscale modeling approach to study lattice reconstruction in marginally twisted bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD). For this, we develop DFT-parametrized interpolation formulae for interlayer adhesion energies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-21 V. V. Enaldiev , V. Zólyomi , C. Yelgel , S. J. Magorrian , V. I. Fal'ko

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

Twisted graphene multilayers provide tunable platforms to engineer flat bands and exploit the associated strongly correlated physics. The two-dimensional nature of these systems makes them suitable for encapsulation by materials that break…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-03 Guangze Chen , Maryam Khosravian , Jose L. Lado , Aline Ramires

Twisted bilayer graphene displays many fascinating properties that can be tuned by varying the relative angle (also called twist angle) between its monolayers. As a remarkable feature, both the electronic flat bands and the corresponding…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-06 V. Hung Nguyen , Trinh X. Hoang , J. -C. Charlier

A recent experiment reported a large anomalous Hall effect in Magic Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene (TBG) aligned with a hexagonal boron nitride(h-BN) substrate at $\frac{3}{4}$ filling of the conduction band. In this paper we study this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-04 Ya-Hui Zhang , Dan Mao , T. Senthil

Lattice reconstruction in twisted transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayers gives rise to piezo- and ferroelectric moir\'e potentials for electrons and holes, as well as a modulation of the hybridisation across the bilayer. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-30 S. J. Magorrian , V. V. Enaldiev , V. Zólyomi , Fábio Ferreira , Vladimir I. Fal'ko , David A. Ruiz-Tijerina

One- and two-dimensional bilayer systems are examples of ultra-tunable quantum materials that are considered as the basis for the new generation of electronic and photonic devices. Here we develop a general theory of the electron band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 D. V. Chalin , D. I. Levshov , A. E. Myasnikova , S. B. Rochal

Graphene-based moir\'e superlattice featuring flat bands is a promising platform for studying strongly correlated states. By tuning two twist angles and displacement fields in twisted mono-mono-bilayer graphene (TMMBG), we observed a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-01 Jin Jiang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Mitali Banerjee