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Moir\'e superlattices in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures provide 20 an efficient way to engineer electron band properties. The recent discovery of exotic quantum phases and their interplay in twisted bilayer…

The Hofstadter butterfly spectral patterns of lattice electrons in an external magnetic field yield some of the most beguiling images in physics. Here we explore the magneto-electronic spectra of systems with moire spatial patterns,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 R. Bistritzer , A. H. MacDonald

In magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG), the moir\'e superlattice potential gives rise to narrow electronic bands1 which support a multitude of many-body quantum phases. Further richness arises in the presence of a perpendicular…

Two-dimensional electron systems in both magnetic fields and periodic potentials are described by Hofstadter butterfly, a fundamental problem of solid-state physics. While moir\'e systems provide a powerful method to realize this spectrum,…

An exact mapping of the tight-binding Hamiltonian for a graphene's nanoribbon under any armchair uniaxial strain into an effective one-dimensional system is presented. As an application, for a periodic modulation we have found a gap opening…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-27 Pedro Roman-Taboada , Gerardo G. Naumis

Transition metal dichalcogenide moir\'e homobilayers have emerged as a platform in which magnetism, strong correlations, and topology are intertwined. In a large magnetic field, the energetic alignment of states with different spin in these…

This is a short review of the recent progresses on Hofstadter butterfly in graphene, organized in the following. We first briefly introduce the Hofstadter butterfly, including the theoretic toy model of Bloch electrons in the magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-02 Wei Yang , Guangyu Zhang

We report an exact map into one dimensional effective chains, of the tight-binding Hamiltonian for electrons in armchair and zigzag graphene nanoribbons with any uniaxial ripple. This mapping is used for studying the effect of uniaxial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 Pedro Roman-Taboada , Gerardo G. Naumis

The presence of periodic modulation in graphene leads to a reconstruction of the band structure and formation of minibands. In an external uniform magnetic field, a fractal energy spectrum called Hofstadter butterfly is formed. Particularly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Alina Mreńca-Kolasińska , Szu-Chao Chen , Ming-Hao Liu

According to electronic structure theory, bilayer graphene is expected to have anomalous electronic properties when it has long-period moir\'e patterns produced by small misalignments between its individual layer honeycomb lattices. We have…

We calculate the electronic spectrum of bilayer graphene in perpendicular magnetic fields nonperturbatively. To accommodate arbitrary displacements between the two layers, we apply a periodic gauge based on singular flux vortices of phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Norbert Nemec , Gianaurelio Cuniberti

We report on the theoretical electronic spectra of twisted phosphorene bilayers exhibiting moir\'e patterns, as computed by means of a continuous approximation to the moir\'e superlattice Hamiltonian. Our model is constructed by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-23 Isaac Soltero , Jonathan Guerrero-Sánchez , Francisco Mireles , David A. Ruiz-Tijerina

We develop a new, efficient, and general method to determine the Hofstadter spectrum of isolated narrow bands. The method works for topological as well as for trivial narrow bands by projecting the zero $\mathbf{B}$-field hybrid Wannier…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-09 Xiaoyu Wang , Oskar Vafek

Monolayer graphene placed with a twist on top of AB-stacked bilayer graphene hosts topological flat bands in a wide range of twist angles. The dispersion of these bands and gaps between them can be efficiently controlled by a perpendicular…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-05 Louk Rademaker , Ivan Protopopov , Dmitry Abanin

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…

Electrons moving through a spatially periodic lattice potential develop a quantized energy spectrum consisting of discrete Bloch bands. In two dimensions, electrons moving through a magnetic field also develop a quantized energy spectrum,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-17 C. R. Dean , L. Wang , P. Maher , C. Forsythe , F. Ghahari , Y. Gao , J. Katoch , M. Ishigami , P. Moon , M. Koshino , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , K. L. Shepard , J. Hone , P. Kim

Hofstadter's diagram, or the energy spectrum against the magnetic field in tight-binding systems, is obtained for the models having flat (dispersionless) one-electron band(s) that have originally been proposed for itinerant spin…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Hideo Aoki , Masato Ando , Hajime Matsumura

In a tight-binding model of AA-stacked bilayer graphene, it is demonstrated that a bound defect state within the region of continuous spectrum can exist stably with respect to variations in the strength of a perpendicular magnetic field.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Stephen P. Shipman , Jorge Villalobos

We analyze the electronic structure of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) nanoribbons close to the magic angle. We describe a transition from an incomplete to a complete moir\'e structure. By considering zigzag and armchair edge terminations,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-14 Elias Andrade , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Francisco Guinea , Gerardo G. Naumis

Spectral and transport properties of electrons in confined phosphorene systems are investigated in a five hopping parameter tight-binding model, using analytical and numerical techniques. The main emphasis is on the properties of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 B. Ostahie , A. Aldea
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