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We study the electronic properties of twisted bilayers graphene in the tight-binding approximation. The interlayer hopping amplitude is modeled by a function, which depends not only on the distance between two carbon atoms, but also on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 A. O. Sboychakov , A. L. Rakhmanov , A. V. Rozhkov , Franco Nori

Moire superlattices in twisted transition metal dichalcogenide bilayers have emerged as a rich platform for exploring strong correlations using optical spectroscopy. Despite observation of rich Mott-Wigner physics stemming from an interplay…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Ido Schwartz , Yuya Shimazaki , Clemens Kuhlenkamp , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Martin Kroner , Ataç Imamoğlu

Flux-energy and angle-energy diagrams for an exact three-dimensional Hamiltonian of the Bloch electron in a uniform magnetic field are analyzed. The dependence of the structure of the diagrams on the direction of the field, the geometry of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Bruening , V. V. Demidov , V. A. Geyler

Lattice reconstruction in twisted transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayers gives rise to piezo- and ferroelectric moir\'e potentials for electrons and holes, as well as a modulation of the hybridisation across the bilayer. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-30 S. J. Magorrian , V. V. Enaldiev , V. Zólyomi , Fábio Ferreira , Vladimir I. Fal'ko , David A. Ruiz-Tijerina

Inspired by the rich physics of twisted 2D bilayer moir\'{e} systems, we study Coulomb interacting systems subjected to two overlapping finite 1D lattice potentials of unequal periods through exact numerical diagonalization. Unmatching…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 DinhDuy Vu , S. Das Sarma

We report on the theoretical electronic spectra of twisted phosphorene bilayers exhibiting moir\'e patterns, as computed by means of a continuous approximation to the moir\'e superlattice Hamiltonian. Our model is constructed by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-23 Isaac Soltero , Jonathan Guerrero-Sánchez , Francisco Mireles , David A. Ruiz-Tijerina

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

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 effects of strain in moir\'e systems composed of honeycomb lattices. We elucidate the formation of almost perfect one-dimensional moir\'e patterns in twisted bilayer systems. The formation of such patterns is a consequence of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-20 Andreas Sinner , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Francisco Guinea

The interplay of twist and strain in bilayer graphene enables the formation of moir\'e patterns and narrow bands that host correlated and topological phases. While magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has been widely studied, strain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Federico Escudero , Dong Wang , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Shengjun Yuan , Francisco Guinea , Zhen Zhan

The electronic structure of materials is fundamentally governed by their crystal symmetry. While most research on two-dimensional materials has focused on hexagonal lattices, such as graphene, hexagonal boron nitride, and transition metal…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-21 Zhonghui Han , Lanting Feng , Guodong Yu , Shengjun Yuan

Moir\'{e} superlattices in twisted bilayer graphene and transition-metal dichalcogenides have emerged as a powerful tool for engineering novel band structures and quantum phases of two-dimensional quantum materials. Here we investigate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-03-17 Xi-Wang Luo , Chuanwei Zhang

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) subject to a sequence of commensurate external periodic potentials reveals the formation of moir\'{e} fractals (MF) that share striking similarities with the central place theory (CPT) of economic geography,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Deepanshu Aggarwal , Rohit Narula , Sankalpa Ghosh

We investigate how anisotropic strain reorganizes commensurate moir\'e superlattices and electronic structure in twisted bilayer graphene across a finite range of twist angles. Motivated by experiments demonstrating robust magic angle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Ayan Mondal , Bheema Lingam Chittari

Twisted heterostructures of van der Waals materials have received much attention for their many remarkable properties. Here, we present a comprehensive theory of the long-range ordered magnetic phases of twisted bilayer $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-20 Muhammad Akram , Jesse Kapeghian , Jyotirish Das , Roser Valenti , Antia S. Botana , Onur Erten

We present here a Hofstadter's butterfly spectrum for the magic angle twisted bilayer graphene obtained using an ab initio based multi-million atom tight-binding model. We incorporate a hexagonal boron nitride substrate and out-of-plane…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-08 Alina Wania Rodrigues , Maciej Bieniek , Paweł Potasz , Daniel Miravet , Ronny Thomale , Marek Korkusiński , Paweł Hawrylak

Two-dimensional multi-layer materials with an induced moir\'e pattern, either due to strain or relative twist between layers, provide a versatile platform for exploring strongly correlated and topological electronic phenomena. While these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-27 Mohammed M. Al Ezzi , Albert Zhu , Daniel Bennett , Daniel T. Larson , Efthimios Kaxiras

Advances in material fabrication techniques and growth methods have opened up a new chapter for twistronics, in the form of twisted freestanding three-dimensional material membranes. Through first-principles calculations based on density…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-06 Seungjun Lee , D. J. P. de Sousa , Bharat Jalan , Tony Low

In recent years twisted bi-layers of 2D materials became very popular in the field due to the possibility to totally change their electronic properties by simple rotation. At the same time, in the wide field of photonic crystals, this idea…

We perform an analytical study of the energy and entanglement spectrum of non-interacting fermionic bilayer honeycomb lattices in the presence of trigonal warping in the energy spectrum, on-site energy difference and uniform magnetic field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Z. Moradi , J. Abouie