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We study flat bands in bipartite tight-binding networks with discrete translational invariance. Chiral flat bands with chiral symmetry eigenenergy E = 0 and host compact localized eigenstates for finite range hopping. For a bipartite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-18 Ajith Ramachandran , Alexei Andreanov , Sergej Flach

The recently realized bilayer graphene system with a twist angle of $30^\circ$ offers a new type of quasicrystal which unites the dodecagonal quasicrystalline nature and graphene's relativistic properties. Here, we introduce a concise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-10 Pilkyung Moon , Mikito Koshino , Young-Woo Son

We find exact analytic expressions for the energies and wavefunctions of the charged and neutral excitations above the exact ground states (at rational filling per unit cell) of projected Coulomb Hamiltonians in twisted bilayer graphene.…

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

It has long been noticed that special lattices contain single-electron flat bands (FB) without any dispersion. Since the kinetic energy of electrons is quenched in the FB, this highly degenerate energy level becomes an ideal platform to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-07-16 Zheng Liu , Feng Liu , Yong-Shi Wu

The flat band is a key ingredient for the realization of interesting quantum states for novel functionalities. In this work, we investigate the conditions for the flat band in both monolayer and bilayer graphene under periodic strain. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-09 Xiaohan Wan , Siddhartha Sarkar , Kai Sun , Shi-Zeng Lin

Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene (BLG) provides an ideal basis for gate-controlled, and free of etching, electronic devices. Theoretical modeling of realistic devices is an essential part of research, however, simulations of large-scale BLG…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-16 Szu-Chao Chen , Alina Mreńca-Kolasińska , Ming-Hao Liu

We study the possibility of charge order at quarter filling and antiferromagnetism at half-filling in a tight-binding model of magic angle twisted bilayer graphene. We build on the model proposed by Kang and Vafek [Physical Review X 8(3),…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-07 B. Pahlevanzadeh , P. Sahebsara , D. Sénéchal

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

We study the electronic band structure and the topological property of the twisted double bilayer graphene, or a pair of AB-stacked bilayer graphenes rotationally stacked on top of each other. We consider two different arrangements, AB-AB…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-10 Mikito Koshino

Two-dimensional atomic crystals can radically change their properties in response to external influences such as substrate orientation or strain, resulting in essentially new materials in terms of the electronic structure. A striking…

We study charge fractionalization in bilayer graphene which is intimately related to its zero modes. In the unbiased case, the valley zero modes occur in pairs rendering it unsuitable for charge fractionalization. A bias plays the role of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-09 J. C. Martinez , M. B. A. Jalil , S. G. Tan

Motivated by the possibility of superconductivity in doped graphene sheets, we investigate superconducting order in the extended Hubbard model on the two-dimensional graphene lattice using the variational cluster approximation (VCA) and the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-05-29 J. P. L. Faye , P. Sahebsara , D. Sénéchal

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

Motivated by recent experimental observations of displacement-field-tuned correlated insulators at integer and half-integer fillings in chirally twisted triple bilayer graphene (CTTBG), we study the single-particle and interacting physics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Geng-Dong Zhou , Yi-Jie Wang , Wen-Xuan Wang , Xiao-Bo Lu , Zhi-Da Song

Bilayer graphene is a recently isolated and intriguing class of many-body systems with massive chiral quasiparticles. We present theoretical results for the electronic compressibility of bilayer graphene that are based on a four-band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-06 Giovanni Borghi , Marco Polini , Reza Asgari , A. H. MacDonald

In this article we study the Bistritzer-MacDonald (BM) model with external magnetic field. We study the spectral properties of the Hamiltonian in an external magnetic field with a particular emphasis on the flat band of the chiral model at…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-05 Simon Becker , Xiaowen Zhu

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

Controlling the bandstructure of Dirac materials is of wide interest in current research but has remained an outstanding challenge for systems such as monolayer graphene. In contrast, Bernal bilayer graphene (BLG) offers a highly flexible…

We discuss the full optical response of twisted bilayer graphene at the neutrality point close to the magic angle within the continuum model (CM). Firstly, we identify three different channels consistent with the underlying $D_3$ symmetry,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 T. Stauber , M. Wackerl , P. Wenk , D. Margetis , J. González , G. Gómez-Santos , J. Schliemann

Unconventional flat band (FB) superconductivity, as observed in van der Waals heterostructures, could open promising avenues towards high-T$_c$ materials. In FBs, pairings and superfluid weight scale linearly with the interaction parameter,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-12 G. Bouzerar , M. Thumin