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Materials with flat electronic bands often exhibit exotic quantum phenomena owing to strong correlations. Remarkably, an isolated low-energy flat band can be induced in bilayer graphene by simply rotating the layers to 1.1$^{\circ}$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Matthew Yankowitz , Shaowen Chen , Hryhoriy Polshyn , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , David Graf , Andrea F. Young , Cory R. Dean

Two monolayers of graphene twisted by a small `magic' angle exhibit nearly flat bands leading to correlated electronic states and superconductivity, whose precise nature including possible broken symmetries, remain under debate. Here we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-13 Jong Yeon Lee , Eslam Khalaf , Shang Liu , Xiaomeng Liu , Zeyu Hao , Philip Kim , Ashvin Vishwanath

Quantum confinement endows two-dimensional (2D) layered materials with exceptional physics and novel properties compared to their bulk counterparts. Although certain two- and few-layer configurations of graphene have been realized and…

The unexpected discovery of superconductivity and strong electron correlation in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), a system containing only sp electrons, is considered as one of the most intriguing developments in two-dimensional materials in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Wei-Chen Wang , Feng-Wu Chen , Kuan-Sen Lin , Justin T. Hou , Ho-Chun Lin , Mei-Yin Chou

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

Moir\'e superlattices formed in stacks of two or more 2D crystals with similar lattice structures have recently become excellent platforms to reveal new physics in low-dimensional systems. They are, however, highly sensitive to the angle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-15 Tianyu Zhang , Chengxin Xiao , Hongxia Xue , Wang Yao , Dong-Keun Ki

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…

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) near the magic twist angle of $\sim1.1^{o}$ exhibits a rich phase diagram. However, the interplay between different phases and their dependence on twist angle is still elusive. Here, we explore the stability…

The coexistence of superconducting and correlated insulating states in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene prompts fascinating questions about the relationship of these orders. Independent control of the microscopic mechanisms governing…

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

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

Electron-electron interactions play an important role in graphene and related systems and can induce exotic quantum states, especially in a stacked bilayer with a small twist angle. For bilayer graphene where the two layers are twisted by a…

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

Flat bands emerging in buckled monolayer graphene superlattices have been recently shown to realize correlated states analogous to those observed in twisted graphene multilayers. Here, we demonstrate the emergence of valley topology driven…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Antonio L. R. Manesco , Jose L. Lado

The topological electronic structure of crystalline materials often gives rise to intriguing surface states, such as Dirac surface states in topological insulators, Fermi arc surface states in Dirac semimetals, and topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Wenqiang Zhou , Jing Ding , Jiannan Hua , Le Zhang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Wei Zhu , Shuigang Xu

In graphene moir\'e superlattices, electronic interactions between layers are mostly hidden as band structures get crowded because of folding, making their interpretation cumbersome. Here, the evolution of the electronic band structure as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Francisco Sanchez-Ochoa , Andres Botello-Mendez , Cecilia Noguez

The understanding of strongly-correlated materials, and in particular unconventional superconductors, has puzzled physicists for decades. Such difficulties have stimulated new research paradigms, such as ultra-cold atom lattices for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-22 Yuan Cao , Valla Fatemi , Shiang Fang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Efthimios Kaxiras , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

The discovery of correlated states and superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) has established moir\'e quantum matter as a new platform to explore interaction-driven and topological quantum phenomena. Multitudes of…

The recent discovery of superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has sparked a renewed interest in the strongly-correlated physics of $sp^2$ carbons, in stark contrast to preliminary investigations which were dominated by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-17 Deepanshu Aggarwal , Rohit Narula , Sankalpa Ghosh

Rhombohedral multilayer graphene, with its flat electronic bands and concentrated Berry curvature, is a promising material for the realization of correlated topological phases of matter. When aligned to an adjacent hexagonal boron nitride…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Samuel H. Aronson , Tonghang Han , Zhengguang Lu , Yuxuan Yao , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Long Ju , Raymond C. Ashoori