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Twisted bilayer graphene exhibits isolated, relatively flat electronic bands near charge neutrality when the interlayer rotation is tuned to specific magic angles. These small misalignments, typically below 1.1{\deg}, result in long-period…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Antonio Palamara , Michele Pisarra , Antonello Sindona

We derive the explicit Hamiltonian of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) with Coulomb interaction projected into the flat bands, and study the symmetries of the Hamiltonian. First, we show that all projected TBG Hamiltonians can be written as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-29 B. Andrei Bernevig , Zhi-Da Song , Nicolas Regnault , Biao Lian

We discuss twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) based on a theorem of flat band ferromagnetism put forward by Mielke and Tasaki. According to this theorem, ferromagnetism occurs if the single particle density matrix of the flat band states is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-03 R. Pons , A. Mielke , T. Stauber

At magic twisted angles, Dirac cones in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) can evolve into flat bands, serving as a critical playground for the study of strongly correlated physics. When chiral symmetry is introduced, rigorous mathematical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-11 Fan Cui , Congcong Le , Qiang Zhang , Xianxin Wu , Jiangping Hu , Ching-Kai Chiu

Recent experiments have reported the surprising observation of superconductivity in flavor polarized, nearly flat bands (FBs) of rhombohedral graphene. Motivated by these findings, we introduce a class of models for single-flavor FBs with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-09 Zhaoyu Han , Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman , Qiang Gao , Eslam Khalaf

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) has been experimentally observed to exhibit almost flat bands when the twisting occurs at certain magic angles. In this letter, we report new results on the continuum model of twisted bilayer graphene and its…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-21 Simon Becker , Mark Embree , Jens Wittsten , Maciej Zworski

Twisted graphene moire superlattice has been demonstrated as an exotic platform for investigating correlated states and nontrivial topology. Among the moire family, twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG) is a tunable flat band system…

Magic angle twisted bilayer graphene has emerged as a powerful platform for studying strongly correlated electron physics, owing to its almost dispersionless low-energy bands and the ability to tune the band filling by electrostatic gating.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Nikhil Tilak , Xinyuan Lai , Shuang Wu , Zhenyuan Zhang , Mingyu Xu , Raquel de Almeida Ribeiro , Paul C Canfield , Eva Y. Andrei

The emergence of controlled, two-dimensional moir\'e materials has uncovered a new platform for investigating topological physics. Twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG) has been predicted to host a topologically non-trivial gapped phase…

We show that the entire continuous model of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) (and not just the two active bands) with particle-hole symmetry is anomalous and hence incompatible with a lattice model. Previous works, e.g., [Phys. Rev. Lett.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-29 Zhi-Da Song , Biao Lian , Nicolas Regnault , B. Andrei Bernevig

A bipartite lattice with chiral symmetry is known to host zero energy flat bands if the numbers of the two sublattices are different. We demonstrate that this mechanism of producing flat bands can be realized on graphene by introducing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Matheus S. M. de Sousa , Fujun Liu , Fanyao Qu , Wei Chen

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

Within ten years, flat band (FB) superconductivity has gained a huge interest for its remarkable features and connection to quantum geometry. We investigate the superconductivity in a FB system whose orbitals are inequivalent and in which…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-09 M. Thumin , G. Bouzerar

Motivated by the abundance of symmetry breaking states in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene and other two-dimensional materials, we study superconducting (SC) and charge orders in two-dimensional topological flat bands in the strong…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-16 Penghao Zhu , Shi Feng , Yuan-Ming Lu

We study a 2D continuum model of electronic transport in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) at commensurate angles. We use two honeycomb potentials with the symmetries of graphene, either sharing a common origin (AA stacking) or shifted by a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Tal Malinovitch

In this review, we present recent works on materials whose common point is the presence of electronic bands of very low dispersion, called "flat bands", which are due to specific atomic order effects without electron interactions. These…

We present a theoretical investigation of the emergence of chiral topological superconductivity in small-angle twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) and twisted double bilayer graphene (tDBLG). Using the low-energy continuum model and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Kamalesh Bera , Tanay Nag , Arijit Saha

Since the discovery of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), flat bands in Dirac materials have become a prominent platform for realizing strong correlation effects in electronic systems. Here we show that the symmetry group…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-20 Yarden Sheffer , Raquel Queiroz , Ady Stern

We derive the exact insulator ground states of the projected Hamiltonian of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) flat bands with Coulomb interactions in various limits, and study the perturbations away from these limits. We define the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-29 Biao Lian , Zhi-Da Song , Nicolas Regnault , Dmitri K. Efetov , Ali Yazdani , B. Andrei Bernevig

We study the chirally symmetric continuum model (CS-CM) of the twisted bilayer graphene. The equation on a flat band could be interpreted as a Dirac equation on a torus in the external non-abelian magnetic field. We prove that the existence…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-19 Fedor K. Popov , Alexey Milekhin