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Emergent quantum phases driven by electronic interactions can manifest in materials with narrowly dispersing, i.e. "flat", energy bands. Recently, flat bands have been realized in a variety of graphene-based heterostructures using the…

Twisted van der Waals heterostructures provide a platform for studying a wide range of electron correlation phenomena, including unconventional superconductivity and correlated insulating states. However, fabricating such devices is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Hyeon-Woo Jeong , Jiho Kim , Boknam Chae , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Gil-Ho Lee

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) develops large moir\'e patterns at small twist angles with flat energy bands hosting domes of superconductivity. The large system size and intricate band structure have however hampered investigations into the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-07-19 Tomas Löthman , Johann Schmidt , Fariborz Parhizgar , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Starting from the strong-coupling limit of an extended Hubbard model, we develop a spin-fermion theory to study the insulating phase and pairing symmetry of the superconducting phase in twisted bilayer graphene. Assuming that the insulating…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-05-20 Xingyu Gu , Chuan Chen , Jia Ning Leaw , Evan Laksono , Vitor M. Pereira , Giovanni Vignale , Shaffique Adam

Moir\'e superlattices formed in stacks of two or more 2D crystals with similar lattice structures have recently become excellent platforms to reveal new physics in low-dimensional systems. They are, however, highly sensitive to the angle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-15 Tianyu Zhang , Chengxin Xiao , Hongxia Xue , Wang Yao , Dong-Keun Ki

Transport experiments in twisted bilayer graphene revealed multiple superconducting domes separated by correlated insulating states. These properties are generally associated with strongly correlated states in a flat mini-band of the…

We propose a way to generate a one-dimensional topological superconductor from a monolayer of a transition metal dichalcogenide coupled to a Bernal-stacked bilayer of graphene under a displacement field. With proper gating, this structure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Daniel Skliannyi , Yuval Oreg , Ady Stern

Twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ near two-degree twists has emerged as a platform for exotic correlated topological phases, including ferromagnetism and a non-Abelian fractional spin Hall insulator. Here we reveal the unexpected emergence of an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-16 Cheong-Eung Ahn , Donghae Seo , Gyeoul Lee , Youngwook Kim , Gil Young Cho

We present a comprehensive theoretical study of the topological surface states (TSS) of Bi$_2$Se$_3$, a 3D topological insulator, epitaxially grown on twisted bilayer graphene (tBG). The moir\'e potential induced by tBG folds the TSS Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Yoonkang Kim

When twisted to angles near 1{\deg}, graphene multilayers provide a new window on electron correlation physics by hosting gate-tuneable strongly-correlated states, including insulators, superconductors, and unusual magnets. Here we report…

We investigate strong coupling topological superconductivity in twisted moir\'e bilayer WSe$_2$. Our approach is based on an effective $t$-$J$ model with displacement-field-dependent complex hoppings, which is treated with the variational…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-15 Waseem Akbar , Andrzej Biborski , Louk Rademaker , Michał Zegrodnik

The search for artificial topological superconductivity has been limited by the stringent conditions required for its emergence. As exemplified by the recent discoveries of various correlated electronic states in twisted van der Waals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-14 Shawulienu Kezilebieke , Viliam Vaňo , Md N. Huda , Markus Aapro , Somesh Chandra Ganguli , Peter Liljeroth , Jose L. Lado

Moir\'e patterns formed by stacking atomically-thin van der Waals crystals with a relative twist angle can give rise to dramatic new physical properties. The study of moir\'e materials has so far been limited to structures comprising no…

Electron-electron interactions play an important role in graphene and related systems and can induce exotic quantum states, especially in a stacked bilayer with a small twist angle. For bilayer graphene where the two layers are twisted by a…

Spatial control of topology is highly desirable for realizing tunable quantum functionalities in materials. Moir\'e superlattices formed by twisting van der Waals heterostructures provide a natural platform for spatially modulated…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-28 Arjyama Bordoloi , Daniel Kaplan , Sobhit Singh

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) exhibits a wide range of intriguing physical properties, such as superconductivity, ferromagnetism, and superlubricity. Depending on the twist angle, periodic moir\'e superlattices form in twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Vahid Morovati , Zhiming Xue , Kenneth M. Liechti , Rui Huang

We consider the most energetically favorable symmetry-allowed spin-singlet and spin-triplet superconducting pairing symmetries in twisted bilayer graphene at the magic angle, whose normal state physics is described by a six-band effective…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-07-27 Emile Pangburn , Miguel Alvarado , Oladunjoye A. Awoga , Catherine Pépin , Cristina Bena

Twisted graphene based moir\'e heterostructures host a flat band at the magic angles where the kinetic energy of the charge carriers is quenched and interaction effects dominate. This results in emergent phases such as superconductors and…

The group of moir\'e graphene superconductors keeps growing, and by now it contains twisted graphene multilayers and twisted double bilayers. We analyze the contribution of long range charge fluctuations in the superconductivity of twisted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-05 Min Long , Alejandro Jimeno-Pozo , Hector Sainz-Cruz , Pierre A. Pantaleon , Francisco Guinea

The observation of flat energy bands in transition metal dichalcogenide bilayers such as twisted WSe${}_2$ makes those materials interesting prospects for reproducing the behavior observed in graphene-based systems. We use an effective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-21 Mathieu Bélanger , Jérôme Fournier , David Sénéchal