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A major hurdle in understanding the phase diagram of twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) are the roles of lattice relaxation and electronic structure on isolated band flattening near magic twist angles. In this work, the authors develop an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-28 Shivesh Pathak , Tawfiqur Rakib , Run Hou , Andriy Nevidomskyy , Elif Ertekin , Harley T. Johnson , Lucas K. Wagner

Recent experiments have observed possible spin- and valley-polarized insulators and spin-triplet superconductivity in twisted double bilayer graphene, a moire structure consisting of a pair of Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene. Besides the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-12 Yi-Ting Hsu , Fengcheng Wu , S. Das Sarma

Moir\'e superlattices created by the twisted stacking of two-dimensional crystalline monolayers can host electronic bands with flat energy dispersion in which interaction among electrons is strongly enhanced. These superlattices can also…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 Xiaomeng Liu , Cheng-Li Chiu , Jong Yeon Lee , Gelareh Farahi , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ashvin Vishwanath , Ali Yazdani

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

We consider a family of twisted graphene multilayers consisting of $n$-untwisted chirally stacked layers, e.g., AB, ABC, etc, with a single twist on top of $m$-untwisted {chirally stacked} layers. Upon neglecting both trigonal warping terms…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-20 Patrick J. Ledwith , Ashvin Vishwanath , Eslam Khalaf

The discovery of alternating superconducting and insulating ground-states in magic angle graphene has suggested an intriguing analogy with cuprate high-$T_c$ materials. Here we argue that the network states of small angle twisted bilayer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-02 E. J. König , Piers Coleman , A. M. Tsvelik

We demonstrate the emergence of a robust tetrahedral magnetic ground state in monolayer graphene doped to the van Hove singularity (vHS). This noncoplanar, gapped spin configuration - featuring four equally inclined moments - has been…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-27 Maxime Lucas , Arnaud Ralko , Andreas Honecker , Guy Trambly de Laissardière

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) has been extensively explored both theoretically and experimentally as a suitable platform for a rich and tunable phase diagram that includes ferromagnetism, charge order, broken symmetries, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 Lauro B. Braz , George B. Martins , Luis G. G. V. Dias da Silva

Superconductivity (SC) in twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) has been explored by varying carrier concentrations, twist angles, and screening strength, with the aim of uncovering its origin and possible connections to strong electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-13 Ranit Dutta , Ayan Ghosh , Shinjan Mandal , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , H. R. Krishnamurthy , Sumilan Banerjee , Manish Jain , Anindya Das

Spin orbit coupling changes graphene, in principle, into a two-dimensional topological insulator, also known as quantum spin Hall insulator. One of the expected consequences is the existence of spin-filtered edge states that carry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 D. Gosálbez-Martínez , D. Soriano , J. J. Palacios , J. Fernández-Rossier

Owing to the spin, valley, and orbital symmetries, the lowest Landau level (LL) in bilayer graphene exhibits multicomponent quantum Hall ferromagnetism. Using transport spectroscopy, we investigate the energy gaps of integer and fractional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Yanmeng Shi , Yongjin Lee , Shi Che , Ziqi Pi , Timothy Espiritu , Petr Stepanov , Dmitry Smirnov , Chun Ning Lau , Fan Zhang

Moir\'e systems displaying flat bands have emerged as novel platforms to study correlated electron phenomena. Insulating and superconducting states appear upon doping magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), and there is evidence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-17 M. J. Calderón , E. Bascones

Moir\'e systems featuring flat electronic bands exhibit a vast landscape of emergent exotic quantum states, making them one of the resourceful platforms in condensed matter physics in recent times. Tuning these systems via twist angle and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Jin Jiang , Qixuan Gao , Zekang Zhou , Cheng Shen , Mario Di Luca , Emily Hajigeorgiou , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Mitali Banerjee

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

Bernal bilayer graphene has recently been discovered to exhibit a wide range of unique ordered phases resulting from interaction-driven effects and encompassing spin and valley magnetism, correlated insulators, correlated metals, and…

Coherent manipulation of binary degrees of freedom is at the heart of modern quantum technologies. Graphene offers two binary degrees: the electron spin and the valley. Efficient spin control has been demonstrated in many solid state…

Recently, symmetry-broken ground states, such as correlated insulating states, magnetic order and superconductivity, have been discovered in twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) and twisted trilayer graphene (tTLG) near the so-called…

The recent constructions of flat moir\'e minibands in specifically twisted multilayer graphene and twisted transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have facilitated the observation of strong correlations with a convenient tunability. These…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-05 Jihang Zhu , Dawei Zhai , Cong Xiao , Wang Yao

Twisted graphene bilayers (TGBs) have low-energy van Hove singularities (VHSs) that are strongly localized around AA-stacked regions of the moire pattern. Therefore, they exhibit novel many-body electronic states, such as Mott-like…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Yi-Wen Liu , Jia-Bin Qiao , Chao Yan , Yu Zhang , Si-Yu Li , Lin He