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Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) exhibits a wide range of intriguing physical properties, such as superconductivity, ferromagnetism, and superlubricity. Depending on the twist angle, periodic moir\'e superlattices form in twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Vahid Morovati , Zhiming Xue , Kenneth M. Liechti , Rui Huang

Twisted Bilayer Graphene at the magic twist angle features flat energy bands, which lead to superconductivity and strong correlation physics. These unique properties are typically limited to a narrow range of twist angles around the magic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-20 Or Katz , Gil Refael , Netanel H. Lindner

We formulate a low energy effective Hamiltonian to study superlattices in bilayer graphene (BLG) using a minimal model which supports quadratic band touching points. We show that a one dimensional (1D) periodic modulation of the chemical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-23 Matthew Killi , Si Wu , Arun Paramekanti

We studied the real space structure of states in twisted bilayer graphene at the `magic angle' $\theta = 1.08^\circ$. The flat bands close to charge neutrality are composed of a mix of `ring' and `center' orbitals around the AA stacking…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-02 Louk Rademaker , Paula Mellado

In Bernal bilayer graphene (BBG), a perpendicular displacement field flattens the bottom of the conduction band and thereby facilitates the formation of strongly-correlated electron states at low electron density. Here, we focus on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-13 Sandeep Joy , Brian Skinner

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

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) is remarkable for its topological flat bands, which drive strongly-interacting physics at integer fillings, and its simple theoretical description facilitated by the Bistritzer-MacDonald Hamiltonian, a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-08-10 Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman , Aaron Chew , Dmitri K. Efetov , B. Andrei Bernevig

The valleys in hexagonal two-dimensional systems with broken inversion symmetry carry an intrinsic orbital magnetic moment. Despite this, such systems possess zero net magnetization unless additional symmetries are broken, since the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Brian T. Schaefer , Katja C. Nowack

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

Recent experiments on magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene have discovered correlated insulating behavior and superconductivity at a fractional filling of an isolated narrow band. In this paper we show that magic-angle bilayer graphene…

It is usually believed that the spin-fluctuation mechanism for high-temperature superconductivity results in d-wave pairing, and that it is destructive for the conventional phonon-mediated pairing. We show that in bilayer materials, due to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 A. I. Liechtenstein , I. I. Mazin , O. K. Andersen

We investigate superconductivity in strain-engineered graphene using a self-consistent Bogoliubov-de Gennes approach. Challenging the paradigm that the high density of states in flat bands universally enhances pairing, we identify a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-14 Tao Zhou

We identify graphene as a system where chiral superconductivity can be realized. Chiral superconductivity involves a pairing gap that winds in phase around the Fermi surface, breaking time reversal symmetry. We consider a unique situation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Rahul Nandkishore , Leonid Levitov , Andrey Chubukov

Flat band electronic modes are responsible for superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) rotated at magic angles. From there other magic angles can be found for any multilayered twisted graphene systems. Eventually, this lead to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-15 Leonardo A. Navarro-Labastida , Gerardo G. Naumis

The study of the interplay of applied external magnetic field and superconductivity has been invigorated by recent works on Bernal bilayer and rhombohedral multilayer graphene. These studies, with and without proximitized spin-orbit…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-02 Huiyang Ma , Dmitry V. Chichinadze , Cyprian Lewandowski

We study the emergence of superconductivity in rhombohedral trilayer graphene due purely to the long-range Coulomb repulsion. This repulsive-interaction-driven phase in rhombohedral trilayer graphene is significantly different from those…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Tommaso Cea , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Vo Tien Phong , Francisco Guinea

Superlattices (SLs) in monolayer and bilayer graphene, formed by spatially periodic potential variations, lead to a modified bandstructure with extra finite-energy and zero-energy Dirac fermions with tunable anisotropic velocities. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 Si Wu , Matthew Killi , Arun Paramekanti

Graphene holds great potential for superconductivity due to its pure two-dimensional nature, the ability to tune its carrier density through electrostatic gating, and its unique, relativistic-like electronic properties. At present, we are…

We propose an SU(4) spin-valley-fermion model to investigate the superconducting instabilities of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG). In this approach, bosonic fluctuations associated with an emergent SU(4) symmetry, corresponding to combined…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-20 Yuxuan Wang , Jian Kang , Rafael M. Fernandes

Recent observations of superconductivity in Moire graphene have lead to an intense interest in that system, with subsequent studies revealing a more complex phase diagram including correlated insulators and ferromagnetic phases. Here we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-10 Z. E. Krix , O. P. Sushkov