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Recent experimental discoveries of superconductivity and other exotic electronic states in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) call for a reconsideration of our traditional theories of these states, usually based on the assumption of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-09-06 Tero T. Heikkila , Timo Hyart

When dimensionality is reduced, enhanced quantum fluctuations can destroy long-range phase coherence, driving a superconductor insulator transition, SIT, where disorder and electronic correlations give rise to novel many-body states. Here,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Phanibhusan S. Mahapatra , Haining Pan , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , J. H. Pixley , Eva Y. Andrei

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene is a tunable material with remarkably flat energy bands near the Fermi level, leading to fascinating transport properties and correlated states at low temperatures. However, grown pristine samples of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Aleksander Sanjuan Ciepielewski , Jakub Tworzydło , Timo Hyart , Alexander Lau

Identifying the microscopic processes that limit conductivity is essential for understanding correlated and quantum-critical states in quantum materials. In twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) and other twist-controlled materials, the…

Large-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) realizes a multicomponent quantum Hall (QH) platform of spin, valley and layer pseudospins with strong Coulomb interaction-driven symmetry broken phases. Here, we investigate the low energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Vineet Pandey , Prasenjit Ghosh , Riju Pal , Sourav Paul , Abhijith M B , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Atindra Nath Pal , Vidya Kochat

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…

Recent mean-field calculations suggest that the superconducting state of twisted bilayer graphene exhibits either a nematic order or a spontaneous breakdown of the time-reversal symmetry. The two-dimensional character of the material and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-10 Ilaria Maccari , Johan Carlström , Egor Babaev

The fascinating quantum many-body states in twisted bilayber graphene (TBG) at magic angle, due to the interplay of Coulomb interactions and the quantum metrics of flat bands, have been well understood both experimentally and theoretically.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-06 Cheng Huang , Nikolaos Parthenios , Maksim Ulybyshev , Xu Zhang , Fakher F. Assaad , Laura Classen , Zi Yang Meng

Twisted multilayer moir\'e materials are generically quasiperiodic on the moir\'e scale due to the interference of different misaligned moir\'e periodicities. Spatial inhomogeneities such as these can be detrimental to superconductivity;…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Xinghai Zhang , Ziyan Zhu , Justin H. Wilson , Matthew S. Foster

Recent research on twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) uncovered that its twist-angle-dependent electronic structure leads to a host of unique properties, such as superconductivity, correlated insulating states, and magnetism. The flat bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-29 Adithya Kommini , Zlatan Aksamija

We argue that moir\'e bilayer graphene at charge neutrality hosts a continuous semimetal-to-insulator quantum phase transition that can be accessed experimentally by tuning the twist angle between the two layers. For small twist angles near…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Jan Biedermann , Lukas Janssen

In twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) a moir\'e pattern forms that introduces a new length scale to the material. At the 'magic' twist angle of 1.1{\deg}, this causes a flat band to form, yielding emergent properties such as correlated…

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) develops large moir\'e patterns at small twist angles with flat energy bands hosting domes of superconductivity. The large system size and intricate band structure have however hampered investigations into the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-07-19 Tomas Löthman , Johann Schmidt , Fariborz Parhizgar , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

An extended Hubbard model on a honeycomb lattice with two orbitals per site at charge neutrality is investigated with unbiased large-scale quantum Monte Carlo simulations. The Fermi velocity of the Dirac fermions is renormalized as the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-11 Yuan Da Liao , Zi Yang Meng , Xiao Yan Xu

Designer 2D materials where the constituent layers are not aligned may result in band structures with dispersionless, "flat" bands. Twisted bilayer graphene has been found to show correlated phases as well as superconductivity related to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-02-03 P. Törmä , S. Peotta , B. A. Bernevig

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…

Quasi-two dimensional itinerant fermions in the Anti-Ferro-Magnetic (AFM) quantum-critical region of their phase diagram, such as in the Fe-based superconductors or in some of the heavy-fermion compounds, exhibit a resistivity varying…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-10 C. M. Varma

Symmetry breaking is an effective tool for tuning the transport and topological properties of 2D layered materials. Among these materials, twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) has emerged as a promising platform for new physics, characterized by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 Cunyuan Jiang , Matteo Baggioli , Qing-Dong Jiang

The superior intrinsic properties of graphene have been a key research focus for the past few years. However, external components, such as metallic contacts, serve not only as essential probing elements, but also give rise to an effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 Yanqing Wu , Vasili Perebeinos , Yu-ming Lin , Tony Low , Fengnian Xia , Phaedon Avouris

The quantum Hall system can be used to study many-body physics owing to its multiple internal electronic degrees of freedom and tunability. While quantum phase transitions have been studied intensively, research on the temperature-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-25 Miuko Tanaka , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Kentaro Nomura , Seigo Tarucha , Michihisa Yamamoto
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