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In a strongly correlated system, collective excitations contain key information regarding the electronic order of the underlying ground state. An abundance of collective modes in the spin and valley isospin channels of magic-angle graphene…

The ability to control the strength of interaction is essential for studying quantum phenomena emerging from a system of correlated fermions. For example, the isotope effect illustrates the effect of electron-phonon coupling on…

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We study the impact of electron-phonon interactions on the many-body instabilities of electrons on the honeycomb lattice and their interplay with repulsive local and non-local Coulomb interactions at charge neutrality. To that end, we…

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On flat bands of the magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene, exotic correlation physics unfolds. Phonons, through mediating an effective electron-electron interaction, can play a crucial role in selecting various electronic phases. In this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-03 Yi-Jie Wang , Geng-Dong Zhou , Biao Lian , Zhi-Da Song

A Kekul\'e lattice is an exotic, distorted lattice structure exhibiting alternating bond lengths, distinguished from naturally formed atomic crystals. Despite its evident applicability, the formation of a Kekul\'e lattice from topological…

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Recent advances in strain engineering at the nanoscale have shown the feasibility to modulate the properties of graphene. Although the electron-phonon (e-ph) coupling and Kohn anomalies in graphene define the phonon branches contributing to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-02 M. E. Cifuentes-Quintal , O. de la Peña-Seaman , R. Heid , R. de Coss , K. -P. Bohnen

Graphene moire superlattices are outstanding platforms to study correlated electron physics and superconductivity with exceptional tunability. However, robust superconductivity has been measured only in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-20 Young Woo Choi , Hyoung Joon Choi

The interplay of twist and strain in bilayer graphene enables the formation of moir\'e patterns and narrow bands that host correlated and topological phases. While magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has been widely studied, strain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Federico Escudero , Dong Wang , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Shengjun Yuan , Francisco Guinea , Zhen Zhan

Density functional perturbation theory is used to analyze electron-phonon interaction in bilayer graphene. The results show that phonon scattering in bilayer graphene bears more resemblance with bulk graphite than monolayer graphene. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-29 K. M. Borysenko , J. T. Mullen , X. Li , Y. G. Semenov , J. M. Zavada , M. Buongiorno Nardelli , K. W. Kim

Electron-phonon coupling directly determines the stability of cooperative order in solids, including superconductivity, charge and spin density waves. Therefore, the ability to enhance or reduce electron-phonon coupling by optical driving…

We study the effect of electron-acoustic phonon interactions in twisted bilayer graphene on resistivity in the high-temperature transport and superconductivity in the low-temperature phase diagram. We theoretically show that twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Fengcheng Wu , Euyheon Hwang , Sankar Das Sarma

Carrier relaxation measurements in moir\'e materials offer a unique probe of the microscopic interactions, in particular the ones that are not easily measured by transport. Umklapp scattering between phonons is a ubiquitous…

Magic angle twisted bilayer graphene has emerged as a powerful platform for studying strongly correlated electron physics, owing to its almost dispersionless low-energy bands and the ability to tune the band filling by electrostatic gating.…

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When twisted to angles near 1{\deg}, graphene multilayers provide a new window on electron correlation physics by hosting gate-tuneable strongly-correlated states, including insulators, superconductors, and unusual magnets. Here we report…

Electron-phonon interaction and related self-energy are fundamental to both the equilibrium properties and non-equilibrium relaxation dynamics of solids. Although electron-phonon interaction has been suggested by various time-resolved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-09 Hongyun Zhang , Changhua Bao , Michael Schüler , Shaohua Zhou , Qian Li , Laipeng Luo , Wei Yao , Zhong Wang , Thomas P. Devereaux , Shuyun Zhou

We study the possibility of charge order at quarter filling and antiferromagnetism at half-filling in a tight-binding model of magic angle twisted bilayer graphene. We build on the model proposed by Kang and Vafek [Physical Review X 8(3),…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-07 B. Pahlevanzadeh , P. Sahebsara , D. Sénéchal

Twisted trilayer graphene is a particularly promising moir\'e superlattice system, due to its tunability, strong superconductivity, and complex electronic symmetry breaking. Motivated by these properties, we study lattice relaxation and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-23 Rhine Samajdar , Yanting Teng , Mathias S. Scheurer

The formation of a superlattice in graphene can serve as a way to modify its electronic bandstructure and thus to engineer its electronic transport properties. Recent experiments have discovered a Kekul\'e bond ordering in graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Elias Andrade , Ramon Carrillo-Bastos , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Francisco Mireles

Using scanning probe microscopy and spectroscopy, we explore the spatial symmetry of the electronic wavefunctions of twisted bilayer graphene at the "magic angle" of 1.1 degrees. This small twist angle leads to a long wavelength moir\'e…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 Zhiming Zhang , Rachel Myers , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Brian J. LeRoy

The quest for unconventional superconductivity governed by Coulomb repulsion between electrons rather than phonon attraction received new momentum with the advent of moir\'e graphene. Initially, delineating the phonon and…

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