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We analyse the splitting of exact flat bands in the chiral model of the twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) when the $AA'/BB'$ coupling of the full Bistritzer--MacDonald model is taken into account. The first-order perturbation caused by the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 Simon Becker , Maciej Zworski

We study the effect of electron-acoustic phonon interactions in twisted bilayer graphene on resistivity in the high-temperature transport and superconductivity in the low-temperature phase diagram. We theoretically show that twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Fengcheng Wu , Euyheon Hwang , Sankar Das Sarma

At a magic relative twist angle, magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) has an octet of flat bands that can host strong correlation physics when partially filled. A key theoretical discovery in MATBG is the existence of ferromagnetic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-03-27 Kevin D. Stubbs , Michael Ragone , Allan H. MacDonald , Lin Lin

We propose a new kind of geometric effective theory based on curved space-time single valley Dirac theory with spin connection for twisted bilayer graphene under generic twist angle. This model can reproduce the nearly flat bands with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Jia-Zheng Ma , Trinanjan Datta , Dao-Xin Yao

We develop a theory for a qualitatively new type of disorder in condensed matter systems arising from local twist-angle fluctuations in two strongly coupled van der Waals monolayers twisted with respect to each other to create a flat band…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-06-30 Justin H. Wilson , Yixing Fu , S. Das Sarma , J. H. Pixley

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), with rotational misalignment close to 1.1$^\circ$, features isolated flat electronic bands that host a rich phase diagram of correlated insulating, superconducting, ferromagnetic, and topological…

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

Magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) presents a fascinating platform for investigating the effects of electron interactions in topological flat bands. The Bistritzer-MacDonald (BM) model provides a simplified quantitative…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-11 Zhi-Yu Xiao , Shiwei Zhang

Recent experiments have demonstrated the possibility to design highly controllable junctions on magic angle twisted bilayer graphene, enabling the test of its superconducting transport properties. We show that the presence of chiral pairing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-15 Miguel Alvarado , Pablo Burset , Alfredo Levy Yeyati

At magic twisted angles, Dirac cones in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) can evolve into flat bands, serving as a critical playground for the study of strongly correlated physics. When chiral symmetry is introduced, rigorous mathematical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-11 Fan Cui , Congcong Le , Qiang Zhang , Xianxin Wu , Jiangping Hu , Ching-Kai Chiu

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene exhibits quasi-flat low-energy bands with Van Hove singularities close to the Fermi level. These singularities play an important role in the exotic phenomena observed in this material, such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-08 Aleksander Sanjuan Ciepielewski , Jakub Tworzydło , Timo Hyart , Alexander Lau

We report the observation of a quantum anomalous Hall effect in twisted bilayer graphene showing Hall resistance quantized to within .1\% of the von Klitzing constant $h/e^2$ at zero magnetic field.The effect is driven by intrinsic strong…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-18 M. Serlin , C. L. Tschirhart , H. Polshyn , Y. Zhang , J. Zhu , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , L. Balents , A. F. Young

Graphene, a one-layer honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms, exhibits unconventional phenomena and attracts much interest since its discovery. Recently, an unexpected Mott-like insulator state induced by moir\'e pattern and a superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-22 Yao Wang , Yi-Jun Chang , Jun Gao , Yong-Heng Lu , Zhi-Qiang Jiao , Fang-Wei Ye , Xian-Min Jin

In quasi-one-dimensional conductors, the conductivity in both one-dimensional axis and interchain direction shows peaks when magnetic field is tilted at the magic angles in the plane perpendicular to the conducting chain. Although there are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Yasumasa Hasegawa , Hirono Kaneyasu , Keita Kishigi

We develop a controlled diagrammatic framework for periodic Anderson models,and apply it to heterostrained magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) at charge neutrality using the topological heavy-fermion formulation. Building on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-29 Eyal Keshet , Yaar Vituri , Erez Berg

Mobility edges, separating localized from extended states, are known to arise in the single-particle energy spectrum of disordered systems in dimension strictly higher than two and certain quasiperiodic models in one dimension. Here we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-01-25 Tong Liu , Xu Xia , Stefano Longhi , Laurent Sanchez-Palencia

Close to a magical angle, twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) systems exhibit isolated flat electronic bands and, accordingly, strong electron localization. TBLGs have hence been ideal platforms to explore superconductivity, correlated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-28 V. Hung Nguyen , D. Paszko , M. Lamparski , B. Van Troeye , V. Meunier , J. -C. Charlier

We develop a diagrammatic perturbation theory to account for the emergence of moir\'e bands in the continuum model of twisted bilayer graphene. Our framework is build upon treating the moir\'e potential as a perturbation that transfers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 Federico Escudero

We study the topological bands in twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides in an external magnetic field. We first focus on a paradigmatic model of WSe$_2$, which can be described in an adiabatic approximation as particles moving in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Kryštof Kolář , Kang Yang , Felix von Oppen , Christophe Mora

An extended Hubbard model on a honeycomb lattice with two orbitals per site at charge neutrality is investigated with unbiased large-scale quantum Monte Carlo simulations. The Fermi velocity of the Dirac fermions is renormalized as the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-11 Yuan Da Liao , Zi Yang Meng , Xiao Yan Xu