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Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) features strongly correlated and topological phases due to its flat bands emerging near the magic angle. However, the effects of the non-Hermiticity, arising from the coupling to the environment and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Juan Pablo Esparza , Vladimir Juricic

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

We present simple models to describe the in-plane and the out-of-plane lattice relaxation in twisted bilayer and symmetrically twisted trilayer graphene. Analytical results and series expansions show that for twist angles {\theta} > 1…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Adrián Ceferino , Francisco Guinea

Bilayer graphene was theorized to host a moire miniband with flat dispersion if the layers are stacked at specific twist angles known as the magic angles. Recently, such twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) with the first magic angle twist was…

We propose helical trilayer graphene (HTG), a helical structure featuring identical rotation angles $\theta\approx 1.5^\circ$ between three consecutive layers of graphene, as a unique and experimentally accessible platform for realizing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-11 Trithep Devakul , Patrick J. Ledwith , Li-Qiao Xia , Aviram Uri , Sergio de la Barrera , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Liang Fu

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

Helical trilayer graphene (hTG) exhibits a supermoir\'e pattern with large domains centered around stacking points ABA and BAB, where two well-separated low-energy bands appear with different total Chern numbers at each valley, forming a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Anushree Datta , Daniele Guerci , Mark O. Goerbig , Christophe Mora

At magic twisted angles, Dirac cones in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) can evolve into flat bands, serving as a critical playground for the study of strongly correlated physics. When chiral symmetry is introduced, rigorous mathematical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-11 Fan Cui , Congcong Le , Qiang Zhang , Xianxin Wu , Jiangping Hu , Ching-Kai Chiu

We propose models of twisted multilayer graphene that exhibit exactly flat Bloch bands with arbitrary Chern numbers and ideal band geometries. The models are constructed by twisting two sheets of Bernal-stacked multiple graphene layers with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-19 Jie Wang , Zhao Liu

We demonstrate that a single layer of graphene subject to a superlattice potential nearly commensurate to a $\sqrt{3} \times \sqrt{3}$ supercell exactly maps to the chiral model of twisted bilayer graphene, albeit with half as many degrees…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-18 Valentin Crépel , Aaron Dunbrack , Daniele Guerci , John Bonini , Jennifer Cano

Recent transport studies have demonstrated the great potential of twisted monolayer-bilayer graphene (tMBG) as a new platform to host moir\'e flat bands with a higher tunability than twisted bilayer graphene (tBG). However, a direct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-10 Ling-Hui Tong , Qingjun Tong , Li-Zhen Yang , Yue-Ying Zhou , Qilong Wu , Yuan Tian , Li Zhang , Lijie Zhang , Zhihui Qin , Long-Jing Yin

A moire pattern is formed when two copies of a periodic pattern are overlaid with a relative twist. We address the electronic structure of a twisted two-layer graphene system, showing that in its continuum Dirac model the moire pattern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 R. Bistritzer , A. H. MacDonald

We apply cluster dynamical mean field theory with an exact-diagonalization impurity solver to a Hubbard model for magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene, built on the tight-binding model proposed by Kang and Vafek (2018), which applies to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-21 B. Pahlevanzadeh , P. Sahebsara , D. Sénéchal

A major hurdle in understanding the phase diagram of twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) are the roles of lattice relaxation and electronic structure on isolated band flattening near magic twist angles. In this work, the authors develop an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-28 Shivesh Pathak , Tawfiqur Rakib , Run Hou , Andriy Nevidomskyy , Elif Ertekin , Harley T. Johnson , Lucas K. Wagner

Twisting two layers into a magic angle (MA) of ~1.1{\deg} is found essential to create low energy flat bands and the resulting correlated insulating, superconducting, and magnetic phases in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG). While most of…

Very recently, unconventional superconductivity has been observed in the double twisted trilayer graphene (TLG), where three monolayer graphene (MLG) are stacked on top of each other with two twist angles [J. M. Park, et al., Nature 590,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Miao Liang , Meng-Meng Xiao , Zhen Ma , Jin-Hua Gao

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

We investigate magnetic instabilities in charge-neutral twisted bilayer graphene close to so-called "magic angles" using a combination of real-space Hartree-Fock and dynamical mean-field theories. In view of the large size of the unit cell…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-08 Javad Vahedi , Robert Peters , Ahmed Missaoui , Andreas Honecker , Guy Trambly de Laissardière

We propose that flat bands and van Hove singularities near the magic angle can be stabilized against angle disorder in the twisted Kane-Mele model. With continuum model and maximally localized Wannier function approaches, we identify a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-29 Cheng Xu , Yong Xu , Wenhui Duan , Yang Zhang

Trilayer graphene with a twisted middle layer has recently emerged as a new platform exhibiting correlated phases and superconductivity near its magic angle. A detailed characterization of its electronic structure in the parameter space of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Jiseon Shin , Bheema Lingam Chittari , Jeil Jung