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We show that bilayer graphene in the presence of a 2D superlattice potential provides a highly tunable setup that can realize a variety of flat band phenomena. We focus on two regimes: (i) topological flat bands with non-zero Chern numbers,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Aaron Dunbrack , Ahmed Abouelkomsan , Jiacheng Sun , Xu Du , Jennifer Cano

Helical conductors with spin-momentum locking are promising platforms for Majorana fermions. Here we report observation of two topologically distinct phases supporting helical edge states in charge neutral Bernal-stacked tetralayer graphene…

A polycrystalline graphene consists of perfect domains tilted at angle {\alpha} to each other and separated by the grain boundaries (GB). These nearly one-dimensional regions consist in turn of elementary topological defects, 5-pentagons…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-09-16 Yuanyue Liu , Boris I. Yakobson

HgTe quantum wells possess remarkable physical properties as for instance the quantum spin Hall state and the 'single-valley' analog of graphene, depending on their layer thicknesses and barrier composition. However, double HgTe quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-02 S. S. Krishtopenko , W. Knap , F. Teppe

One of the most remarkable theoretical findings in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) is the emergence of ferromagnetic Slater determinants as exact ground states for the interacting Hamiltonian at the chiral limit. This discovery…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Simon Becker , Lin Lin , Kevin D. Stubbs

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) with interlayer twist angles near the magic angle $\approx 1.08^{\circ}$ hosts flat bands and exhibits correlated states including Mott-like insulators, superconductivity and magnetism. Here we report combined…

Mirror symmetric twisted trilayer graphene (tTLG) is composed of even parity twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG)-like bands and odd parity Dirac-like bands. Here, we study the mirror-symmetric and mirror-asymmetric Hofstadter-Moir\'{e} (HM)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Muhammad Imran , Paul M. Haney , Yafis Barlas

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

Recently twisted bilayer graphene (t-BLG) emerges as a new strongly correlated physical platform near a magic twist angle, which hosts many exciting phenomena such as the Mott-like insulating phases, unconventional superconducting behavior…

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…

Mirror-symmetric magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene (MATTG) hosts flat electronic bands close to zero energy, and has been recently shown to exhibit abundant correlated quantum phases with flexible electrical tunability. However studying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-22 Cheng Shen , Patrick J. Ledwith , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Eslam Khalaf , Ashvin Vishwanath , Dmitri K. Efetov

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

We study trilayer graphene arranged in a staircase stacking configuration with equal consecutive twist angle. On top of the moir\'e cristalline pattern, a supermoir\'e long-wavelength modulation emerges that we treat adiabatically. For each…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-08 Daniele Guerci , Yuncheng Mao , Christophe Mora

Recently, holey graphene (HG) has successfully synthesized at atomic precision of hole size and shape. This shows interesting physical and chemical properties for energy and environmental applications. Shaping of the pores also transforms…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Deobrat Singh , Vivekanand Shukla , Rajeev Ahuja

Crystalline rhombohedral multilayer graphene (RMG) has emerged as an ideal platform for studying unconventional superconductivity. Here, we report the observation of superconductivity in moir\'eless rhombohedral heptalayer graphene (RHG) at…

Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures are an emergent class of metamaterials comprised of vertically stacked two-dimensional (2D) building blocks, which provide us with a vast tool set to engineer their properties on top of the already rich…

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 investigate a simplified continuum model of a twisted homotrilayer TMD with negligible next-nearest layer couplings. We systematically analyze band structure and topology of various stacking configurations in a twist angle range from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-10 Hassan AlBuhairan , Michael Vogl

In twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) a moir\'e pattern forms that introduces a new length scale to the material. At the 'magic' twist angle of 1.1{\deg}, this causes a flat band to form, yielding emergent properties such as correlated…

The fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect (FQAHE) is a fascinating emergent quantum state characterized by fractionally charged excitations in the absence of magnetic field,which could arise from the intricate interplay between electron…