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Near a magic twist angle, bilayer graphene transforms from a weakly correlated Fermi liquid to a strongly correlated two-dimensional electron system with properties that are extraordinarily sensitive to carrier density and to controllable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-14 Eva Y. Andrei , Allan H. MacDonald

The crystal structure of a material creates a periodic potential that electrons move through giving rise to the electronic band structure of the material. When two-dimensional materials are stacked, the twist angle between the layers…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-07 Zhiming Zhang , Yimeng Wang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Keiji Ueno , Emanuel Tutuc , Brian J. LeRoy

Low-energy moir\'e flat bands in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (tBG) have demonstrated incredible potentials to exhibit rich exotic quantum phenomena. Theoretically, the moir\'e flat bands of tBG are based on the extended structures,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-23 Long-Jing Yin , Ling-Hui Tong , Yue-Ying Zhou , Yang Zhang , Yuan Tian , Li Zhang , Lijie Zhang , Zhihui Qin

It has recently been shown that superconductivity in magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene survives to in-plane magnetic fields that are well in excess of the Pauli limit, and much stronger than the in-plane critical magnetic fields of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Wei Qin , Allan H. MacDonald

Flat band electronic modes in twisted graphene bilayers are responsible for superconducting and other highly correlated electron-electron phases. Although some hints were known of a possible connection between the quantum Hall effect and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Leonardo A. Navarro-Labastida , Gerardo G. Naumis

The emergence of flat electronic bands and of the recently discovered strongly correlated and superconducting phases in twisted bilayer graphene crucially depends on the interlayer twist angle upon approaching the magic angle $\theta_M…

We study the appearance of topological Floquet flat bands in alternating-twist multilayer graphene, which has alternating relative twist angle $\pm\theta$ near the first magic angle. While the system hosts both flat bands and a steep Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 Yingyi Huang

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) near the magic twist angle of $\sim1.1^{o}$ exhibits a rich phase diagram. However, the interplay between different phases and their dependence on twist angle is still elusive. Here, we explore the stability…

Studies of twisted moir\'e systems have been mainly focused on two-dimensional (2D) materials such as graphene with Dirac points and transition-metal-dichalcogenide so far. Here we propose a twisted bilayer of 2D systems which feature…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-27 Ming-Rui Li , Ai-Lei He , Hong Yao

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

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) represents a highly tunable, strongly correlated electron system owed to its unique flat electronic bands. However, understanding the single-particle band structure alone has been challenging due to complex…

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

Recent experimental and theoretical investigations demonstrate that twisted trilayer graphene (tTLG) is a highly tunable platform to study the correlated insulating states, ferromagnetism, and superconducting properties. Here we explore the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Zewen Wu , Xueheng Kuang , Zhen Zhan , Shengjun Yuan

Motivated by recent experiments indicating strong superconductivity and intricate correlated insulating and flavor-polarized physics in mirror-symmetric twisted trilayer graphene, we study the effects of interactions in this system close to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-26 Maine Christos , Subir Sachdev , Mathias S. Scheurer

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

If we stack up two layers of graphene while changing their respective orientation by some twisting angle, we end up with a system that has striking differences when compared to single-layer graphene. For a very specific value of this twist…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-18 Eduardo B. Molinero , Anushree Datta , María J. Calderón , Elena Bascones , Rui E. F. Silva

Controlling the electronic structure of two-dimensional materials using the combination of twist angle and electrostatic doping is an effective means to induce emergent phenomena. In bilayer graphene with an interlayer twist angle near the…

Recently, alternating twist multilayer graphene (ATMG) has emerged as a family of moir\'e systems that share several fundamental properties with twisted bilayer graphene, and are expected to host similarly strong electron-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 G. William Burg , Eslam Khalaf , Yimeng Wang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Emanuel Tutuc

We present electronic structure calculations of twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG): A tetralayer graphene structure composed of two AB-stacked graphene bilayers with a relative rotation angle between them. Using first-principles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 F. J. Culchac , Rodrigo B. Capaz , Leonor Chico , E. Suarez Morell

Evidence of flat-band magnetism and half-metallicity in compressed twisted bilayer graphene is provided with first-principles calculations. We show that dynamic band-structure engineering in twisted bilayer graphene is possible by…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-05 Alejandro Lopez-Bezanilla