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In this work, we determine states of electronic order of small-angle twisted bilayer graphene. Ground states are determined for weak and strong couplings which are representatives for varying distances of the twist-angle from its magic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-29 Markus J. Klug

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,…

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene is the best studied physical platform featuring moire potential induced narrow bands with non-trivial topology and strong electronic correlations. Despite their significance, the Chern insulating states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Xiaoyu Wang , Oskar Vafek

Motivated by recent experimental observations of displacement-field-tuned correlated insulators at integer and half-integer fillings in chirally twisted triple bilayer graphene (CTTBG), we study the single-particle and interacting physics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Geng-Dong Zhou , Yi-Jie Wang , Wen-Xuan Wang , Xiao-Bo Lu , Zhi-Da Song

Graphene-based moir\'e superlattice featuring flat bands is a promising platform for studying strongly correlated states. By tuning two twist angles and displacement fields in twisted mono-mono-bilayer graphene (TMMBG), we observed a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-01 Jin Jiang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Mitali Banerjee

The discovery of different phases as a result of correlations, especially in low-dimensional materials, has been always an exciting and fundamental subject of research. Recent experiments on twisted bilayer graphene have revealed reentrant…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-30 Yury Sherkunov , Joseph J. Betouras

Despite much theoretical work, developing a comprehensive ab initio model for twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) has proven challenging due to the inherent trade-off between accurately describing the band structure and incorporating the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-25 Run Hou , Shouvik Sur , Lucas K. Wagner , Andriy H. Nevidomskyy

Interacting electrons in flat bands give rise to a variety of quantum phases. One fundamental aspect of such states is the ordering of the various flavours - such as spin or valley - that the electrons can undergo and the excitation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 Gelareh Farahi , Cheng-Li Chiu , Xiaomeng Liu , Zlatko Papic , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Michael P. Zaletel , Ali Yazdani

Twisted bilayer graphene with a twist angle of around 1.1{\deg} features a pair of isolated flat electronic bands and forms a strongly correlated electronic platform. Here, we use scanning tunneling microscopy to probe local properties of…

Strong correlations occur in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) when the octet of flat moir\'e minibands centered on charge neutrality (CN) is partially occupied. The octet consists of a single valence band and a single conduction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-18 Jihang Zhu , Iacopo Torre , Marco Polini , Allan H. MacDonald

We study theoretically many-body properties of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene for different doping levels. Our investigation is focused on the emergence, stability, and manifestations of nematicity of the ordered low-temperature…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-29 A. O. Sboychakov , A. V. Rozhkov , A. L. Rakhmanov , Franco Nori

Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures consisting of bilayer graphene (BLG) encapsulated within monolayers of strong spin-orbit semiconductor WS$_2$ or ferromagnetic semiconductor Cr$_2$Ge$_2$Te$_6$ (CGT), are investigated. By performing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Klaus Zollner , Jaroslav Fabian

Trilayer graphene allows systematic control of its electronic structure through stacking sequence and twist geometry, providing a versatile platform for correlated states. Here we report magnetotransport in alternating twisted trilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Dohun Kim , Gyeoul Lee , Nicolas Leconte , Seyoung Jin , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Jeil Jung , Gil Young Cho , Youngwook Kim

Twisted van der Waals materials have become a paradigmatic platform to realize exotic correlated states of matter. Here, we show that a twisted dichalcogenide bilayer (WSe$_2$) encapsulated between a magnetic van der Waals material…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-17 D. Soriano , J. L. Lado

Twisting two layers into a magic angle (MA) of ~1.1{\deg} is found essential to create low energy flat bands and the resulting correlated insulating, superconducting, and magnetic phases in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG). While most of…

The fractional quantum Hall effect has recently been shown to exist in heterostructures of van der Waals materials without an externally applied magnetic field, e.g. in twisted bilayers of MoTe$_2$. These fractional Chern insulators break…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-23 Sahana Das , Glenn Wagner , Titus Neupert

Recent experiments have shown that magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) can exhibit correlated insulator behavior at half-filling. Seminal theoretical results towards understanding this phase in MATBG has shown that Hartree-Fock…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-04-01 Kevin D. Stubbs , Simon Becker , Lin Lin

Twisted bilayer graphene near the magic angle is known to have a cascade of insulating phases at integer filling factors of the low-energy bands. In this Letter we address the nature of these phases through an unrestricted, large-scale…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-30 Khagendra Adhikari , Kangjun Seo , K. S. D. Beach , Bruno Uchoa

Flat electronic bands, characteristic of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), host a wealth of correlated phenomena. Early theoretical considerations suggested that, at the magic angle, the Dirac velocity vanishes and the entire…

The interplay between strong electron-electron interaction and symmetry breaking can have profound influence on the topological properties of materials. In magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG), the flat band with a single SU(4)…