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Twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) subject to a sequence of commensurate external periodic potentials reveals the formation of moir\'{e} fractals (MF) that share striking similarities with the central place theory (CPT) of economic geography,…

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While a typical material exhibits field induced currents only at the boundary, a uniform out-of-plane magnetic field applied to two mutually rotated layers of graphene is shown to result in an ordered array of permanent current loops…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 D. Weckbecker , M. Fleischmann , R. Gupta , W. Landgraf , S. Leitherer , O. Pankratov , S. Sharma , V. Meded , S. Shallcross

Symmetry breaking is an effective tool for tuning the transport and topological properties of 2D layered materials. Among these materials, twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) has emerged as a promising platform for new physics, characterized by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 Cunyuan Jiang , Matteo Baggioli , Qing-Dong Jiang

Electron collimation via a graphene pn-junction allows electrostatic control of ballistic electron trajectories akin to that of an optical circuit. Similar manipulation of novel correlated electronic phases in twisted-bilayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 Wei Ren , Xi Zhang , Ziyan Zhu , Moosa Khan , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Efthimios Kaxiras , Mitchell Luskin , Ke Wang

Twisted graphene layers produce a moir\'e pattern (MP) structure with a predetermined wavelength for given twist angle. However, predicting the membrane corrugation amplitude for any angle other than pure AB-stacked or AA-stacked graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 M. Neek-Amal , P. Xu , D. Qi , P. M. Thibado , L. O. Nyakiti , V. D. Wheeler , R. L. Myers-Ward , C. R. Eddy , D. K. Gaskill , F. M. Peeters

Twisted graphene multi-layers have been recently demonstrated to share several correlation-driven behaviours with twisted bilayer graphene. In general, the van Hove singularities (VHSs) can be used as a proxy of the tendency for correlated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Hai Meng , Zhen Zhan , Shengjun Yuan

We present transport measurements of bilayer graphene with 1.38{\deg} interlayer twist and apparent additional alignment to its hexagonal boron nitride cladding. As with other devices with twist angles substantially larger than the magic…

The superconducting properties of layered materials can be controlled by thinning, stacking, and twisting, demanding investigation of electronic states by spectroscopic means at the nanometer scale. Here, we reveal the spatial variations of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-25 Masahiro Naritsuka , Tadashi Machida , Shun Asano , Youichi Yanase , Tetsuo Hanaguri

Bilayer moir\'e structures have attracted significant attention recently due to their spatially modulated layer degrees of freedom. However, the layer-dependent transport mechanism in the moir\'e structures is still a problem to be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 Chao-Jie Ren , Zhao Gong , Hui-Ying Mu , Xing-Tao An , Wang Yao , Jian-Jun Liu

Twisted bilayer systems with discrete magic angles, such as twisted bilayer graphene featuring moir\'{e} superlattices, provide a versatile platform for exploring novel physical properties. Here, we discover a class of superflat bands in…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-31 Hongfei Wang , Shaojie Ma , Shuang Zhang , Dangyuan Lei

We study the interacting transport properties of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) using the topological heavy-fermion (THF) model. In the THF model, TBG comprises localized, correlated $f$-electrons and itinerant, dispersive $c$-electrons. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-23 Dumitru Călugăru , Haoyu Hu , Rafael Luque Merino , Nicolas Regnault , Dmitri K. Efetov , B. Andrei Bernevig

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) exhibits flat electronic bands at the so-called magic angle ($\sim 1.1^\circ$), leading to strong electron correlations and emergent quantum phases such as superconductivity and correlated insulating states.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Ayan Mondal , Priyanka Sinha , Bheema Lingam Chittari

We report a combined nano-photocurrent and infrared nanoscopy study of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) enabling access to the local electronic phenomena at length scales as short as 20 nm. We show that the photocurrent changes sign at…

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

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 study ballistic transport in bilayer graphene junctions and show how electrostatic gating, interlayer bias, and homogeneous strain provide complementary control over electron transmission. In the absence of strain, transport is governed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Dan-Na Liu , Jun Zheng , Pierre A. Pantaleon

In this work we analyze the shift current conductivity in helical twisted trilayer graphene. Without loss of generality, we show that the density of states and the twist angle set an upper bound for this response, which is inversely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Yuncheng Mao , Claudio Attaccalite , Diego García Ovalle

We report on the investigation of periodic superstructures in twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) van-der-Waals heterostructures, where one of the graphene layers is aligned to hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). Our theoretical simulations reveal…

The in-plane DC conductivity of twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) is calculated using an expansion of the real-space Kubo-Bastin conductivity in terms of Chebyshev polynomials. We investigate within a tight-binding (TB) approach the transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 M. Anđelković , L. Covaci , F. M. Peeters

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), in which two monolayer graphene are stacked with an in-plane rotation angle, has recently become a hot topic due to unique electronic structures. TBG is normally produced in air by the tear-and-stack method…