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The understanding of strongly-correlated materials, and in particular unconventional superconductors, has puzzled physicists for decades. Such difficulties have stimulated new research paradigms, such as ultra-cold atom lattices for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-22 Yuan Cao , Valla Fatemi , Shiang Fang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Efthimios Kaxiras , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

We show that the electronic structure of the low-energy bands in the small angle-twisted bilayer graphene consists of a series of semi-metallic and topological phases. In particular we are able to prove, using an approximate low-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Zhida Song , Zhijun Wang , Wujun Shi , Gang Li , Chen Fang , B. Andrei Bernevig

Magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene (MATTG) exhibits a range of strongly correlated electronic phases that spontaneously break its underlying symmetries. The microscopic nature of these phases and their residual symmetries stands as a key…

We use self-consistent Hartree-Fock calculations performed in the full $\pi$-band Hilbert space to assess the nature of the recently discovered correlated insulator states in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG). We find that gaps…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-11 Ming Xie , Allan H. MacDonald

The discovery of correlated states and superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) has established moir\'e quantum matter as a new platform to explore interaction-driven and topological quantum phenomena. Multitudes of…

The ground state of charge neutral graphene under perpendicular magnetic field was predicted to be a quantum Hall topological insulator with a ferromagnetic order and spin-filtered, helical edge channels. In most experiments, however, an…

When two monolayers of graphene are stacked with a small relative twist angle, the resulting band structure exhibits a remarkably flat pair of bands at a sequence of 'magic angles' where correlation effects can induce a host of exotic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-14 Eslam Khalaf , Alex J. Kruchkov , Grigory Tarnopolsky , Ashvin Vishwanath

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) is a recently discovered two-dimensional superlattice structure which exhibits strongly-correlated quantum many-body physics, including strange metallic behavior and unconventional superconductivity. Most of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Cunyuan Jiang , Matteo Baggioli , Qing-Dong Jiang

Recently, Ref. [1] reformulated magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) as a topological heavy fermion problem, and used this reformulation to provide a deeper understanding for the correlated phases at integer fillings. In this work,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-21 Jiabin Yu , Ming Xie , B. Andrei Bernevig , Sankar Das Sarma

We present a numerical study of three-layer graphene heterostructures in which the layers are twisted by the magic angle ($\sim$1.1$^\circ$) or by $\sim$$30^\circ$ to form a graphene quasicrystal. The heterostacks are described using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Pedro Alcázar Guerrero , Viet-Hung Nguyen , Aron W. Cummings , Jean-Christophe Charlier , Stephan Roche

Two monolayers of graphene twisted by a small `magic' angle exhibit nearly flat bands leading to correlated electronic states and superconductivity, whose precise nature including possible broken symmetries, remain under debate. Here we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-13 Jong Yeon Lee , Eslam Khalaf , Shang Liu , Xiaomeng Liu , Zeyu Hao , Philip Kim , Ashvin Vishwanath

We systematically explore the structural and electronic properties of twisted trilayer graphene systems. In general, these systems are characterized by two twist angles, which lead to two incommensurate moir\'{e} periods. We show that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-31 Charles Yang , Julian May-Mann , Ziyan Zhu , Trithep Devakul

Topology and electron interactions are two central themes in modern condensed matter physics. Here we propose graphene based systems where both the band topology and interaction effects can be simply controlled with electric fields. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-20 Ya-Hui Zhang , Dan Mao , Yuan Cao , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , T. Senthil

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), with rotational misalignment close to 1.1$^\circ$, features isolated flat electronic bands that host a rich phase diagram of correlated insulating, superconducting, ferromagnetic, and topological…

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) has extraordinary electronic properties at the magic angle along with an isolated flat band at the magic angle. However, the non-Hermitian phenomena in twisted bilayer graphene remain unexplored. In this work,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-17 Yingyi Huang

Twisted van der Waals heterostructures with flat electronic bands have recently emerged as a platform for realizing correlated and topological states with an extraordinary degree of control and tunability. In graphene-based moir\'e…

The electronic properties of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) can be dramatically different from those of a single graphene layer, in particular when the two layers are rotated relative to each other by a small angle. TBG has recently…

Trilayer graphene allows systematic control of its electronic structure through stacking sequence and twist geometry, providing a versatile platform for correlated states. Here we report magnetotransport in alternating twisted trilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Dohun Kim , Gyeoul Lee , Nicolas Leconte , Seyoung Jin , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Jeil Jung , Gil Young Cho , Youngwook Kim

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

Twisted multilayer moir\'e materials are generically quasiperiodic on the moir\'e scale due to the interference of different misaligned moir\'e periodicities. Spatial inhomogeneities such as these can be detrimental to superconductivity;…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Xinghai Zhang , Ziyan Zhu , Justin H. Wilson , Matthew S. Foster