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We review the electronic properties of bilayer graphene, beginning with a description of the tight-binding model of bilayer graphene and the derivation of the effective Hamiltonian describing massive chiral quasiparticles in two parabolic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-23 Edward McCann , Mikito Koshino

Moir\'e structures formed by twisting three layers of graphene with two independent twist angles present an ideal platform for studying correlated quantum phenomena, as an infinite set of angle pairs is predicted to exhibit flat bands.…

We show that the electronic structure of the low-energy bands in the small angle-twisted bilayer graphene consists of a series of semi-metallic and topological phases. In particular we are able to prove, using an approximate low-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Zhida Song , Zhijun Wang , Wujun Shi , Gang Li , Chen Fang , B. Andrei Bernevig

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) hosts a multitude of strongly correlated states at partial fillings of its flat bands. In a magnetic field, these flat bands further evolve into a unique Hofstadter spectrum renormalized by…

A recent experiment reported a large anomalous Hall effect in Magic Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene (TBG) aligned with a hexagonal boron nitride(h-BN) substrate at $\frac{3}{4}$ filling of the conduction band. In this paper we study this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-04 Ya-Hui Zhang , Dan Mao , T. Senthil

The recent observation of superconductivity in proximity to an insulating phase in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) at small `magic' twist angles has been linked to the existence of nearly-flat bands, which make TBG a fresh playground to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-12-11 Jörn W. F. Venderbos , Rafael M. Fernandes

The importance of phonons in the strong correlation phenomena observed in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) at the so-called magic-angle is under debate. Here we apply gate-dependent micro-Raman spectroscopy to monitor the G band linewidth in…

Strongly correlated states are commonly emerged in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) with magic-angle, where the electron-electron (e-e) interaction U becomes prominent relative to the small bandwidth W of the nearly flat band. However, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-11 Kaihui Li , Long-Jing Yin , Chenglong Che , Xueying Liu , Yulong Xiao , Songlong Liu , Qingjun Tong , Si-Yu Li , Anlian Pan

A detailed understanding of interacting electrons in twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) near the magic angle is required to gain insights into the physical origin of the observed broken symmetry phases. Here, we present extensive atomistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-02 Zachary A. H. Goodwin , Valerio Vitale , Xia Liang , Arash A. Mostofi , Johannes Lischner

The effects of the long range electrostatic interaction in twisted bilayer graphene are described using the Hartree-Fock approximation. The results show a significant dependence of the band widths and shapes on electron filling, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-29 Tommaso Cea , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Niels R. Walet , Francisco Guinea

Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures are an emergent class of metamaterials comprised of vertically stacked two-dimensional (2D) building blocks, which provide us with a vast tool set to engineer their properties on top of the already rich…

Twisted van der Waals heterostructures with flat electronic bands have recently emerged as a platform for realizing correlated and topological states with an extraordinary degree of control and tunability. In graphene-based moir\'e…

Superconductivity often occurs close to broken-symmetry parent states and is especially common in doped magnetic insulators. When twisted close to a magic relative orientation angle near 1 degree, bilayer graphene has flat moire…

The discovery of flat bands with non-trivial band topology in magic angle twisted bi-layer graphene (MATBG) has provided a unique platform to study strongly correlated phe-nomena including superconductivity, correlated insulators, Chern…

The magnetic-field-induced correlated Chern insulator (CCI) states in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) have been intensively studied in experiments, but a simple and clear understanding of their origin is still lacking. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Chen Zhao , Zhaowen Miao , Zhen Ma , Ying-Hai Wu , Ming Lu , Jin-Hua Gao , X. C. Xie

Despite much theoretical work, developing a comprehensive ab initio model for twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) has proven challenging due to the inherent trade-off between accurately describing the band structure and incorporating the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-25 Run Hou , Shouvik Sur , Lucas K. Wagner , Andriy H. Nevidomskyy

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

Bilayer graphene twisted by a small angle shows a significant charge modulation away from neutrality, as the charge in the narrow bands near the Dirac point is mostly localized in the regions of the Moir\'e pattern with $AA$ stacking. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-13 Francisco Guinea , Niels R. Walet

A purely electronic mechanism is proposed for the unconventional superconductivity recently observed in twisted bilayer graphene (tBG) close to the magic angle. Using the Migdal-Eliashberg framework on a one parameter effective lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-19 Gargee Sharma , Maxim Trushin , Oleg P. Sushkov , Giovanni Vignale , Shaffique Adam

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