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Based on the full Hamiltonian of bilayer graphene, phase transitions are realized by the change of the in-plane magnetic field and the electrical bias in bilayer graphene. We show that the engineering of Chern numbers of four bands is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Narjes Kheirabadi

Twisted Bilayer graphene (TBG) is known to feature isolated and relatively flat bands near charge neutrality, when tuned to special magic angles. However, different criteria for the magic angle such as the vanishing of Dirac speed, minimal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-27 Grigory Tarnopolsky , Alex J. Kruchkov , Ashvin Vishwanath

We analyse the splitting of exact flat bands in the chiral model of the twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) when the $AA'/BB'$ coupling of the full Bistritzer--MacDonald model is taken into account. The first-order perturbation caused by the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 Simon Becker , Maciej Zworski

Bernal stacked bilayer graphene subject to a superlattice potential can realize topological and stacked flat bands [1]. In the present work, we extend the study of a superlattice potential on graphene heterostructures to trilayer and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-24 Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Jennifer Cano

We prove that invisible bands associated with zeros of the single-particle Green's function exist ubiquitously at topological interfaces of 2D Chern insulators, dual to the chiral edge/domain-wall modes. We verify this statement in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-19 Youjiang Xu , Irakli Titvinidze , Walter Hofstetter

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

Recent experiments on bilayer graphene twisted near the magic angle have observed spontaneous integer quantum Hall states in the presence of an aligned hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) substrate. These states arise from valley ferromagnetism,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-18 Patrick J. Ledwith , Grigory Tarnopolsky , Eslam Khalaf , Ashvin Vishwanath

We show that the valley Chern number of the low energy band in twisted double bilayer graphene can be tuned through two successive topological transitions, where the direct bandgap closes, by changing the electric field perpendicular to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Priyanka Mohan , Unmesh Ghorai , Rajdeep Sensarma

We study the electronic properties of a twisted trilayer graphene, where two of the layers have Bernal stacking and the third one has a relative rotation with respect to the AB-stacked layers. Near the Dirac point, the AB-twisted trilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 E. Suárez Morell , M. Pacheco , L. Chico , L. Brey

Twisting bilayer sheets of graphene have been proven to be an efficient way to manipulate the electronic Dirac-like properties, resulting in flat bands at magic angles. Inspired by the electronic model, we develop a continuum model for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-20 Emmanuele Cappelluti , Jose Angel Silva-Guillén , Habib Rostami , Francisco Guinea

At a discrete set of magic angles, twisted bilayer graphene has been shown to host extraordinarily flat bands, correlated insulating states, unconventional superconductivity, and distinct Landau level degeneracies. In this work, we design a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Ayush Singh , Colin Benjamin

We review chiral (Klein) tunneling in single-layer and bilayer graphene and present its semiclassical theory, including the Berry phase and the Maslov index. Peculiarities of the chiral tunneling are naturally explained in terms of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-01 T. Tudorovskiy , K. J. A. Reijnders , M. I. Katsnelson

Motivated by the recent development of the quantum twisting microscope, we formulate a theory of elastic momentum-resolved tunneling across a planar tunnel junction between a monolayer graphene layer situated on a tip and a twisting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-14 Nemin Wei , Felix von Oppen , Leonid I. Glazman

Using exact diagonalization, we study the projected Hamiltonian with Coulomb interaction in the 8 flat bands of first magic angle twisted bilayer graphene. Employing the U(4) (U(4)$\times$U(4)) symmetries in the nonchiral (chiral) flat band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-26 Fang Xie , Aditya Cowsik , Zhi-Da Song , Biao Lian , B. Andrei Bernevig , Nicolas Regnault

Why do experiments only observe one magic angle in twisted bilayer graphene, despite standard models like the chiral limit of the Bistritzer-MacDonald Hamiltonian predicting an infinite number? In this article, we explore the relative…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Simon Becker , Izak Oltman , Martin Vogel

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) near "magic angles" has emerged as a rich platform for strongly correlated states of two-dimensional Dirac semimetals. Here we show that twisted bilayers of thin-film magnetic topological insulators (MTI) with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Gaurav Chaudhary , Anton A. Burkov , Olle G. Heinonen

We consider the chiral model of twisted bilayer graphene introduced by Tarnopolsky-Kruchkov-Vishwanath (TKV). TKV have proved that for inverse twist angles $\alpha$ such that the effective Fermi velocity at the moir\'e $K$ point vanishes,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 Alexander B. Watson , Mitchell Luskin

We construct a continuum model for the Moir\'e superlattice of twisted bilayer MnBi$_2$Te$_4$, and study the band structure of the bilayer in both ferromagnetic (FM) and antiferromagnetic (AFM) phases. We find the system exhibits highly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-17 Biao Lian , Zhaochen Liu , Yuanbo Zhang , Jing Wang

This paper presents a mathematical and numerical analysis of the flatband wavefunctions occurring in the chiral model of twisted bilayer graphene at the "magic" twist angles. We show that the chiral model possesses an exact intra-valley…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Jie Wang , Yunqin Zheng , Andrew J. Millis , Jennifer Cano

We propose a tunable optical setup to engineer topologically nontrivial flat bands in twisted bilayer graphene under circularly polarized light. Using both analytical and numerical calculations, we demonstrate that nearly flat bands can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-18 Yantao Li , H. A. Fertig , Babak Seradjeh