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We propose a class of graphene-based moir\'e systems hosting flat bands on kagome and honeycomb moir\'e superlattices. These systems are formed by stacking a graphene layer on a 2D substrate with lattice constant approximately $\sqrt{3}$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-18 Michael G. Scheer , Biao Lian

Moir\'{e} superlattices in twisted bilayer graphene and transition-metal dichalcogenides have emerged as a powerful tool for engineering novel band structures and quantum phases of two-dimensional quantum materials. Here we investigate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-03-17 Xi-Wang Luo , Chuanwei Zhang

Though research on graphene by itself has waned, the interest in moire materials, materials made with stacked layers of graphene with a rotational twist between the layers, has exploded in popularity. These layered devices show a key…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-24 Ahmed Shaikh , Phanibhusan Singha Mahapatra , Eva Y. Andrei

We demonstrate that the concept of moir\'e flat bands can be generalized to achieve electronic band engineering in all three spatial dimensions. For many two dimensional van der Waals materials, twisting two adjacent layers with respect to…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-05 Lede Xian , Ammon Fischer , Martin Claassen , Jin Zhang , Angel Rubio , Dante M. Kennes

We theoretically study in-plane acoustic phonons of graphene/hexagonal boron nitride moir\'e superlattice by using a continuum model. We demonstrate that the original phonon bands of individual layers are strongly hybridized and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-03 Lukas P. A. Krisna , Mikito Koshino

Inter-twisted bilayers of two-dimensional (2D) materials can host low-energy flat bands, which offer opportunity to investigate many intriguing physics associated with strong electron correlations. In the existing systems, ultra-flat bands…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 Shengdan Tao , Xuanlin Zhang , Jiaojiao Zhu , Pimo He , Shengyuan A. Yang , Yunhao Lu , Su-Huai Wei

We report on a double moir\'e system consisting of four graphene layers, where the top and bottom pairs form small-twist-angle bilayer graphene, and the middle interface has a large rotational mismatch. This system shows clear signatures of…

We report that the twisted few layer graphite (tFL-graphite) is a new family of moir\'{e} heterostructures (MHSs), which has richer and highly tunable moir\'{e} flat band structures entirely distinct from all the known MHSs. A tFL-graphite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-02 Zhen Ma , Shuai Li , Meng-Meng Xiao , Ya-Wen Zheng , Ming Lu , HaiWen Liu , Jin-Hua Gao , X. C. Xie

Moir\'e superlattices in the twisted bilayer graphene provide an unprecedented platform to investigate a wide range of exotic quantum phenomena. Recently, the twist degree of freedom has been introduced into various classical wave systems,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Weixuan Zhang , Deyuan Zou , Qingsong Pei , Wenjing He , Houjun Sun , Xiangdong Zhang

Twisted graphene moire superlattice has been demonstrated as an exotic platform for investigating correlated states and nontrivial topology. Among the moire family, twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG) is a tunable flat band system…

Unlike conventional two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor superlattices, moir\'{e} patterns in 2D materials are flexible and their electronic, magnetic, optical, and mechanical properties depend on their topography. Within a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-07 Alexandre Artaud , Nicolas Rougemaille , Sergio Vlaic , Vincent T. Renard , Nicolae Atodiresei , Johann Coraux

Applying long wavelength periodic potentials on quantum materials has recently been demonstrated to be a promising pathway for engineering novel quantum phases of matter. Here, we utilize twisted bilayer boron nitride (BN) as a moir\'e…

The geometric properties of a lattice can have profound consequences on its band spectrum. For example, symmetry constraints and geometric frustration can give rise to topologicially nontrivial and dispersionless bands, respectively.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-25 Christie S. Chiu , Da-Shuai Ma , Zhi-Da Song , B. Andrei Bernevig , Andrew A. Houck

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

So far the physics of moir\'e graphene bilayers at large, incommensurate rotation angles has been considered uninteresting. It has been held that the interlayer coupling in such structures is weak and the system can be thought of as a pair…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-01 Hridis K. Pal , Stephen Spitz , Markus Kindermann

Flat-bands play a central role in the presence of correlated phases in Moir\'e and other modulated two dimensional systems. In this work, flat-bands are shown to exist in uniaxially periodic strained graphene. Such strain should be produced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-05 Elias Andrade , Florentino López-Urías , Gerardo G. Naumis

Strong band engineering in two-dimensional (2D) materials can be achieved by introducing moir\'e superlattices, leading to the emergence of various novel quantum phases with promising potential for future applications. Presented works to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-27 Shimin Cao , Mantang Chen , Jiang Zeng , Ning Ma , Runjie Zheng , Ya Feng , Shili Yan , Jing Liu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , X. C. Xie , Jian-Hao Chen

Moir\'e systems have emerged in recent years as a rich platform to study strong correlations. Here, we will discuss a simple, experimentally feasible setup based on periodically strained graphene that reproduces several key aspects of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-03 Qiang Gao , Junkai Dong , Patrick Ledwith , Daniel Parker , Eslam Khalaf

Motivated by the rich topology and interesting quasi-band structure of twisted moire materials subjected to light, we study a non-twisted moire material under the influence of light. Our work is in part motivated by a desire to find an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Saud Alabdulal , Miftah Hadi Syahputra Anfa , Hocine Bahlouli , Michael Vogl

Moir\'e superlattices in graphene supported on various substrates have opened a new avenue to engineer graphene's electronic properties. Yet, the exact crystallographic structure on which their band structure depends remains highly debated.…