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We present a theoretical investigation of the emergence of chiral topological superconductivity in small-angle twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) and twisted double bilayer graphene (tDBLG). Using the low-energy continuum model and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Kamalesh Bera , Tanay Nag , Arijit Saha

We develop a model to describe the mixed valence regime in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) using the recently developed heavy-fermion framework. By employing the large-$N$ slave-boson approach, we derive the self-consistent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-16 Yantao Li , Benjamin M. Fregoso , Maxim Dzero

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) hosts nearly flat bands with narrow bandwidths of a few meV at certain {\em magic} twist angles. Here we show that in twisted gapped Dirac material bilayers, or massive twisted bilayer graphenes (MTBG),…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Srivani Javvaji , Jinhua Sun , Jeil Jung

Electron-phonon coupling in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene is an important but difficult topic. We propose a scheme to simplify and understand this problem. Weighted by the coupling strength with the low-energy heavy electrons ($f$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Hao Shi , Wangqian Miao , Xi Dai

We present a theoretical study of the intrinsic plasmonic properties of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) as a function of the twist angle $\theta$ (and other microscopic parameters such as temperature and filling factor). Our calculations,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 Lorenzo Cavicchi , Iacopo Torre , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Frank H. L. Koppens , Marco Polini

The dominance of Coulomb interactions over kinetic energy of electrons in narrow, non-trivial moir\'{e} bands of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) gives rise to a variety of correlated phases such as correlated insulators,…

Spontaneous orbital magnetism observed in twisted bilayer graphene (tBG) on nearly aligned hexagonal boron nitride (BN) substrate builds on top of the electronic structure resulting from combined G/G and G/BN double moire interfaces. Here…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Jiseon Shin , Youngju Park , Bheema Lingam Chittari , Jeil Jung

Nearly aligned graphene on hexagonal boron nitride (G/BN) can be accurately modeled by a Dirac Hamiltonian perturbed by smoothly varying moir\'e pattern pseudospin fields. Here, we present the moir\'e-band model of G/BN for arbitrary small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-06 Jeil Jung , Evan Laksono , Ashley M. DaSilva , Allan H. MacDonald , Marcin Mucha-Kruczyński , Shaffique Adam

In twisted bilayer graphene, long-wavelength lattice fluctuations on the scale of the moir\'e period are dominated by phason modes, i.e., acoustic branches of the incommensurate lattice resulting from coherent superpositions of optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-30 Héctor Ochoa

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

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

Graphene moire superlattices have emerged as a platform hosting and abundance of correlated insulating, topological, and superconducting phases. While the origins of strong correlations and non-trivial topology are shown to be directly…

An unconventional insulating phase and a superconducting phase were recently discovered in the twisted bilayer graphene [Y. Cao et al, Nature {\bf 556}, 80; {\bf 556}, 43 (2018)], but the relevant low-energy electronic states have not been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-02 Long Zhang

We show that the recently observed superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) can be explained as a consequence of the Kohn-Luttinger (KL) instability which leads to an effective attraction between electrons with originally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-21 J. González , T. Stauber

We study the electron-phonon coupling in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), which was recently experimentally observed to exhibit superconductivity around the magic twist angle $\theta\approx 1.05^\circ$. We show that phonon-mediated electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Biao Lian , Zhijun Wang , B. Andrei Bernevig

The discovery of superconductivity in twisted bilayer and twisted trilayer graphene has generated tremendous interest. The key feature of these systems is an interplay between interlayer coupling and a moir\'e superlattice that gives rise…

Twisted trilayer graphene is a particularly promising moir\'e superlattice system, due to its tunability, strong superconductivity, and complex electronic symmetry breaking. Motivated by these properties, we study lattice relaxation and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-23 Rhine Samajdar , Yanting Teng , Mathias S. Scheurer

The generalized tight-binding model is developed to investigate the magneto-electronic properties in twisted bilayer graphene system. All the interlayer and intralayer atomic interactions are included in the Moire superlattice. The twisted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-23 Chiun-Yan Lin , Ming-Fa Lin

We study the correlated insulating phases of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) in the absence of lattice strain at integer filling $\nu=\pm3$. Using the self-consistent Hartree-Fock method on a particle-hole symmetric model and allowing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-01 Fang Xie , Jian Kang , B. Andrei Bernevig , Oskar Vafek , Nicolas Regnault

We present a theory of phonon-mediated superconductivity in near magic angle twisted bilayer graphene. Using a microscopic model for phonon coupling to moir\'e band electrons, we find that phonons generate attractive interactions in both…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-12-19 Fengcheng Wu , A. H. MacDonald , Ivar Martin