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In the presence of axial magnetic fields that can be realized in deliberately buckled monolayer graphene, quasi-relativistic Dirac fermions may find themselves in a variety of broken symmetry phases even for weak interactions. Through a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-03 Bitan Roy , Jay D. Sau

The recent discovery of correlated insulator states and superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has paved the way to the experimental investigation of electronic correlations in tunable flat band systems realized in…

Twisted double bilayer graphene (tDBLG) is a moir\'e material that has recently generated significant interest because of the observation of correlated phases near the magic angle. We carry out atomistic Hartree theory calculations to study…

When layers of graphene are rotationally misaligned by the magic angle, the moir\'e superlattice features extremely flat bands. Due to the enhanced density of states, the Coulomb interaction induces a variety of instabilities. The most…

We use stochastic expansion and exact diagonalization to study the magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) on a disordered substrate. We show that the substrate-induced strong Coulomb disorder in TBG with the chemical potential at the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-08-09 Chenan Wei , Tigran A. Sedrakyan

In a recent experiment [Lin et al., arXiv:2112.07841], the superconducting phase hosted by a heterostructure of mirror-symmetric twisted trilayer graphene and WSe$_2$ was shown to exhibit significantly different critical currents in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-25 Harley D. Scammell , J. I. A. Li , Mathias S. Scheurer

The ability to tune the energy gap in bilayer graphene makes it the perfect playground for the study of the effects of internal electric fields, such as the crystalline field, which are developed \Reb{when other layered materials are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-21 L. S. Farrar , G. Maffione , V. -H. Nguyen , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , J. -Ch. Charlier , D. Mailly , R. Ribeiro-Palau

The moir\'e of twisted graphene bilayers can generate flat bands in which charge carriers do not posses enough kinetic energy to escape Coulomb interactions with each other leading to the formation of novel strongly correlated electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 F. Mesple , A. Missaoui , T. Cea , L. Huder , G. Trambly de Laissardière , F. Guinea , C. Chapelier , V. T. Renard

We introduce a complete physical model for the single-particle electronic structure of twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG), which incorporates the crucial role of lattice relaxation. Our model, based on $k \cdot p$ perturbation theory, combines…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Stephen Carr , Shiang Fang , Ziyan Zhu , Efthimios Kaxiras

Moir\'e superlattice in twisted bilayer graphene has been proven to be a versatile platform for exploring exotic quantum phases. Extensive investigations have been invoked focusing on the zero-magnetic-field phase diagram at the magic twist…

We extensively investigate the electronic and transport properties of a twisted bilayer graphene when subjected to both an external perpendicular electric field and a magnetic field. Using a basic tight-binding model, we show the flat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 Priyanka Sinha , Ayan Mondal , Simão Meneses João , Bheema Lingam Chittari

Staking layered materials revealed to be a very powerful method to tailor their electronic properties. It has indeed been theoretically and experimentally shown that twisted bilayers of graphene (tBLG) with a rotation angle $\theta$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Omid Faizy Namarvar , Ahmed Missaoui , Laurence Magaud , Didier Mayou , Guy Trambly de Laissardière

We studied the real space structure of states in twisted bilayer graphene at the `magic angle' $\theta = 1.08^\circ$. The flat bands close to charge neutrality are composed of a mix of `ring' and `center' orbitals around the AA stacking…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-02 Louk Rademaker , Paula Mellado

Recently, Ref. [1] reformulated magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) as a topological heavy fermion problem, and used this reformulation to provide a deeper understanding for the correlated phases at integer fillings. In this work,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-21 Jiabin Yu , Ming Xie , B. Andrei Bernevig , Sankar Das Sarma

We explore in detail the electronic phases of a system consisting of three non-colinear arrays of coupled quantum wires, each rotated 120 degrees with respect to the next. A perturbative renormalization-group analysis reveals that multiple…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-29 Chuan Chen , A. H. Castro Neto , Vitor M. Pereira

The flat bands of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) host strongly-correlated electronic phases such as correlated insulators, superconductors and a strange-metal state. The latter state, believed to be key for understanding the…

Magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) hosts narrow moir\'e bands with meV-scale energy splittings, making its correlated phases sensitive to both material parameters and modeling choices in low-energy downfolding. We develop an ab…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-12 Raehyun Kim , Woochang Kim , Kevin D. Stubbs , Steven G. Louie , Lin Lin

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 theoretically argue that, in doped AB bilayer graphene, the electron-electron coupling can give rise to the spontaneous formation of fractional metal phases. These states, being generalizations of a more common half-metal, have a Fermi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 A. L. Rakhmanov , A. V. Rozhkov , A. O. Sboychakov , Franco Nori

Performing a leading-order renormalization group analysis, here we compute the effects of generic local or short-range electronic interactions in monolayer and Bernal bilayer graphene. Respectively in these two systems chiral quasiparticles…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-26 Andras Szabo , Bitan Roy