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Inter-twisted bilayers of two-dimensional (2D) materials can host low-energy flat bands, which offer opportunity to investigate many intriguing physics associated with strong electron correlations. In the existing systems, ultra-flat bands…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 Shengdan Tao , Xuanlin Zhang , Jiaojiao Zhu , Pimo He , Shengyuan A. Yang , Yunhao Lu , Su-Huai Wei

We introduce a minimum tight-binding model with only three parameters extracted from graphene and untwisted bilayer graphene. This model reproduces quantitatively the electronic structure of not only these two systems and bulk graphite near…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Xianqing Lin , David Tománek

Tailoring electron transfer dynamics across solid-liquid interfaces is fundamental to the interconversion of electrical and chemical energy. Stacking atomically thin layers with a very small azimuthal misorientation to produce moir\'e…

We study the stability and electronic structure of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene on the hexagonal boron nitride (TBG/BN). Full relaxation has been performed for commensurate supercells of the heterostructures with different twist…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-20 Xianqing Lin , Kelu Su , Jun Ni

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) exhibits correlated phenomena such as superconductivity and Mott insulating state related to the weakly dispersing flat band near the Fermi energy. Beyond its moir\'e period, such flat band is…

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) with interlayer twist angles near the magic angle $\approx 1.08^{\circ}$ hosts flat bands and exhibits correlated states including Mott-like insulators, superconductivity and magnetism. Here we report combined…

In this work we address the re-entrance of magic-angle phenomena (band flatness and quantum-geometric transport) in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) subjected to strong magnetic fluxes $\pm \Phi_0$, $\pm 2 \Phi_0$, $\pm 3 \Phi_0$... ($\Phi_0…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-04 Yifei Guan , Oleg V. Yazyev , Alexander Kruchkov

We show that the flat bands in the chiral model of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene remain exactly flat in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. This is shown by an exact mapping between the model and the lowest Landau level…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-29 Yarden Sheffer , Ady Stern

In the vicinity of the magic angle in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), the two low-energy van Hove singularities (VHSs) become exceedingly narrow1-10 and many exotic correlated states, such as superconductivity, ferromagnetism, and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-25 Yu Zhang , Zhe Hou , Ya-Xin Zhao , Zi-Han Guo , Yi-Wen Liu , Si-Yu Li , Ya-Ning Ren , Qing-Feng Sun , Lin He

We investigate the topological properties of Floquet-engineered twisted bilayer graphene above the magic angle driven by circularly polarized laser pulses. Employing a full Moir\'e-unit-cell tight-binding Hamiltonian based on…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-30 Gabriel E. Topp , Gregor Jotzu , James W. McIver , Lede Xian , Angel Rubio , Michael A. Sentef

Twisting bilayer sheets of graphene have been proven to be an efficient way to manipulate the electronic Dirac-like properties, resulting in flat bands at magic angles. Inspired by the electronic model, we develop a continuum model for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-20 Emmanuele Cappelluti , Jose Angel Silva-Guillén , Habib Rostami , Francisco Guinea

Moir\'e superlattices in the twisted bilayer graphene provide an unprecedented platform to investigate a wide range of exotic quantum phenomena. Recently, the twist degree of freedom has been introduced into various classical wave systems,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Weixuan Zhang , Deyuan Zou , Qingsong Pei , Wenjing He , Houjun Sun , Xiangdong Zhang

We study conductance across a twisted bilayer graphene coupled to single-layer graphene leads in two setups: a flake of graphene on top of an infinite graphene ribbon and two overlapping semi-infinite graphene ribbons. We find conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-30 Hadi Z. Olyaei , Bruno Amorim , Pedro Ribeiro , Eduardo V. Castro

When twisted to angles near 1{\deg}, graphene multilayers provide a new window on electron correlation physics by hosting gate-tuneable strongly-correlated states, including insulators, superconductors, and unusual magnets. Here we report…

We investigate the Twisted Bilayer Graphene (TBG) model to obtain an analytic understanding of its energetics and wavefunctions needed for many-body calculations. We provide an approximation scheme which first elucidates why the BM…

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

When two graphene layers are rotated from AA or AB configuration by a small angle, the band structure changes dramatically. Numerical calculations have shown that, at certain discrete angles called magic angles, the low energy bands become…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-24 Hridis K. Pal

Twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) has emerged as a promising platform to explore exotic electronic phases. However, the formation of moir\'e patterns in tBLG has thus far been confined to the introduction of twist angles between the layers.…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-10 Gabriel R. Schleder , Michele Pizzochero , Efthimios Kaxiras

The discovery of different phases as a result of correlations, especially in low-dimensional materials, has been always an exciting and fundamental subject of research. Recent experiments on twisted bilayer graphene have revealed reentrant…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-30 Yury Sherkunov , Joseph J. Betouras

We consider a configuration of three stacked graphene monolayers with equal consecutive twist angles $\theta$. Remarkably, in the chiral limit when interlayer coupling terms between $\textrm{AA}$ sites of the moir\'{e} pattern are neglected…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-29 Fedor K. Popov , Grigory Tarnopolsky

Flat band electronic modes in twisted graphene bilayers are responsible for superconducting and other highly correlated electron-electron phases. Although some hints were known of a possible connection between the quantum Hall effect and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Leonardo A. Navarro-Labastida , Gerardo G. Naumis