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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…

We theoretically study the electronic structure of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene with disordered moir\'e patterns. By using an extended continuum model incorporating non-uniform lattice distortion, we find that the local density of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Naoto Nakatsuji , Mikito Koshino

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) features strongly correlated and topological phases due to its flat bands emerging near the magic angle. However, the effects of the non-Hermiticity, arising from the coupling to the environment and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Juan Pablo Esparza , Vladimir Juricic

We investigate the flat-band properties and topological phase transitions in a non-Hermitian twisted bilayer $\alpha-T_3$ lattice. Here, non-Hermiticity is introduced via Hatano-Nelson-type asymmetric hopping, while an aligned hexagonal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Shaina Gandhi , Gourab Paul , Srijata Lahiri , Saurabh Basu

In flat bands, superconductivity can lead to surprising transport effects. The superfluid "mobility", in the form of the superfluid weight $D_s$, does not draw from the curvature of the band but has a purely band-geometric origin. In a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-20 Valerio Peri , Zhida Song , B. Andrei Bernevig , Sebastian D. Huber

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 develop a diagrammatic perturbation theory to account for the emergence of moir\'e bands in the continuum model of twisted bilayer graphene. Our framework is build upon treating the moir\'e potential as a perturbation that transfers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 Federico Escudero

Recent experiments discovered fractional Chern insulator states at zero magnetic field in twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ [C23,Z23] and WSe$_2$ [MD23]. In this article, we study the MacDonald Hamiltonian for twisted transition metal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-12 Simon Becker , Mengxuan Yang

In disordered lattices, itinerant electrons typically undergo Anderson localization due to random phase interference, which suppresses their motion. By contrast, in flat-band systems where electrons are intrinsically localized owing to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Zhe Hou , Hailong Li , Qing Yan , Yu-Hang Li , Hua Jiang

In this Letter, we study a previously unexplored class of topological states protected by hidden chiral symmetries that are local, that is, that protect against any off-diagonal disorder. We derive their related topological invariant for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Juan Zurita , Charles E. Creffield , Gloria Platero

'Magic'-angle twisted bilayer graphene has received a lot of interest due to its flat bands with potentially non-trivial topology that lead to intricate correlated phases. A spectrum with flat bands, however, does not require a twist…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Anastasiia Skurativska , Stepan S. Tsirkin , Fabian D Natterer , Titus Neupert , Mark H Fischer

Flat bands can be divided into singular and non-singular ones according to the behavior of their Bloch wave function around band-crossing points in momentum space. We analyze the flat band in the Dice model, which can be tuned by a uniaxial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-11 Alexander Filusch , Holger Fehske

Topological flat bands play an essential role in inducing exotic interacting physics, ranging from fractional Chern insulators to superconductivity, in moir\'e materials. In this work, we propose a design principle for realizing topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Yunzhe Liu , Anoj Aryal , Kaijie Yang , Dumitru Calugaru , Zhenyao Fang , Haoyu Hu , Qimin Yan , B. Andrei Bernevig , Chao-xing Liu

The emergence of flat bands in twisted bilayer graphene at the magic angle can be understood in terms of a vanishing Fermi velocity of the Dirac cone. This is associated with van Hove singularities approaching the Fermi energy and becoming…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-05 A. S. Shankar , D. O. Oriekhov , Andrew K. Mitchell , L. Fritz

Moir\'e-pattern based potential engineering has become an important way to explore exotic physics in a variety of two-dimensional condensed matter systems. While these potentials have induced correlated phenomena in almost all commonly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-19 Mohammed M. Al Ezzi , Junxiong Hu , Ariando , Francisco Guinea , Shaffique Adam

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

We study the effects of heterostrain on moir\'e bands in twisted bilayer graphene and bilayer transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) systems. For bilayer graphene with twist angle near $1^\circ$, we show that heterostrain significantly…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-07 Zhen Bi , Noah F. Q. Yuan , Liang Fu

Moir\'e systems provide a highly tunable platform for engineering band structures and exotic correlated phases. Here, we theoretically study a model for a single layer of graphene subject to a smooth moir\'e electrostatic potential, induced…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-30 Jeyong Park , Lasse Gresista , Simon Trebst , Achim Rosch , Jinhong Park

Unlike the spin-1/2 fermions, the Lieb and Dice lattices both host triply-degenerate low-energy excitations. Here, we discuss Moir\'e structures involving twisted bilayers of these lattices, which are shown to exhibit a tunable number of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-05 Xiaoting Zhou , Yi-Chun Hung , Baokai Wang , Arun Bansil

Experimental demonstrations of tunable correlation effects in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene have put two-dimensional moir\'e quantum materials at the forefront of condensed-matter research. Other twisted few-layer graphitic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-27 Michael M. Scherer , Dante M. Kennes , Laura Classen