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We consider the orbital effect of an in-plane magnetic field on electrons in bilayer graphene, deriving linear-in-field contributions to the low-energy Hamiltonian arising from the presence of either skew interlayer coupling or interlayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Narjes Kheirabadi , Edward McCann , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

Moir\'e superlattices in van der Waals heterostructures provide a tunable platform to study emergent properties that are absent in the natural crystal form. Twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TB-TMDs) can host moir\'e flat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-27 En Li , Jin-Xin Hu , Xuemeng Feng , Zishu Zhou , Liheng An , Kam Tuen Law , Ning Wang , Nian Lin

Spontaneous symmetry-breaking, where the ground state of a system has lower symmetry than the underlying Hamiltonian, is ubiquitous in physics. It leads to multiply-degenerate ground states, each with a different "broken" symmetry labeled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jonathan S. Alden , Adam W. Tsen , Pinshane Y. Huang , Robert Hovden , Lola Brown , Jiwoong Park , David A. Muller , Paul L. McEuen

Near a magic twist angle, the lowest energy conduction and valence bands of bilayer graphene moir\'e superlattices become extremely narrow. The band dispersion that remains is sensitive to the moir\'e's strain pattern, nonlocal tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-04 Ming Xie , Allan H. MacDonald

Twisted 2D layered materials have garnered a lot of attention recently as a class of 2D materials whose interlayer interactions and electronic properties are dictated by the relative rotation / twist angle between the adjacent layers. In…

We investigate the effect of a magnetic field on the band structure of bilayer graphene with a magic twist angle of 1.08{\deg}. The coupling of a tight-binding model and the Peierls phase allows the calculation of the energy bands of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-20 Gaëlle Bigeard , Alessandro Cresti

Intercalation of lithium atoms between layers of 2D materials can alter their atomic and electronic structure. We investigate effects of Li intercalation in twisted bilayers of the transition metal dichalcogenide MoS$_2$ through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Zheyu Lu , Stephen Carr , Daniel T. Larson , Efthimios Kaxiras

In magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG), the moir\'e superlattice potential gives rise to narrow electronic bands1 which support a multitude of many-body quantum phases. Further richness arises in the presence of a perpendicular…

The presence of periodic modulation in graphene leads to a reconstruction of the band structure and formation of minibands. In an external uniform magnetic field, a fractal energy spectrum called Hofstadter butterfly is formed. Particularly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Alina Mreńca-Kolasińska , Szu-Chao Chen , Ming-Hao Liu

Twisted 2D bilayer materials are created by artificial stacking of two monolayer crystal networks of 2D materials with a desired twisting angle $\theta$. The material forms a moir\'e superlattice due to the periodicity of both top and…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-11 Yang Pan , Shutong Li , Mahfujur Rahaman , Ilya Milekhin , Dietrich R. T. Zahn

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayers with an interlayer twist exhibit a moire super-period, whose effects can manifest in both structural and electronic properties. Atomic displacements can lead to reconstruction into domains of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-23 Madeleine Phillips , C. Stephen Hellberg

Energy bands of electrons in a square lattice potential threaded by a uniform magnetic field exhibit a fractal structure known as the Hofstadter butterfly. Here we study a Fermi gas in a 2D optical lattice within a linear cavity with a tilt…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-02-06 Elvia Colella , Farokh Mivehvar , Francesco Piazza , Helmut Ritsch

Twisted two-dimensional structures open new possibilities in band structure engineering. At magic twist angles, flat bands emerge, which give a new drive to the field of strongly correlated physics. In twisted double bilayer graphene dual…

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) with its flat bands provides a rich platform for exploring emergent electronic orders. Similarly, periodically buckled monolayer graphene has been proposed as a tunable alternative for realizing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Jannes van Poppelen , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

The concept of twistronics and moir\'e physics, which is present in twisted two-dimensional bilayer materials, has recently attracted growing attention in various fields of science and engineering such as condensed matter physics,…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-18 Grigorii Ptitcyn , Nader Engheta

The generalized tight-binding model is developed to investigate the magneto-electronic properties in twisted bilayer graphene system. All the interlayer and intralayer atomic interactions are included in the Moire superlattice. The twisted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-23 Chiun-Yan Lin , Ming-Fa Lin

We calculate the energy bands for graphene monolayers when electrons move through a periodic electrostatic potential in the presence of a uniform perpendicular magnetic field. We clearly demonstrate the quantum fractal nature of the energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Godfrey Gumbs , Andrii Iurov , Danhong Huang , Liubov Zhemchuzhna

Large scale two-dimensional (2D) moir\'e superlattices are driving a revolution in designer quantum materials. The electronic interactions in these superlattices, strongly dependent on the periodicity and symmetry of the moir\'e pattern,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 M. Kögl , P. Soubelet , M. Brotons-Gisbert , A. V. Stier , B. D. Gerardot , J. J. Finley

Twisted Bilayer Graphene at the magic twist angle features flat energy bands, which lead to superconductivity and strong correlation physics. These unique properties are typically limited to a narrow range of twist angles around the magic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-20 Or Katz , Gil Refael , Netanel H. Lindner

Electrons on a two-dimensional (2$d$) lattice which is exposed to a strong uniform magnetic field show intriguing physical phenomena. The spectrum of such systems exhibits a complex (multi-)band structure known as Hofstadter's butterfly.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-11 A. A. Markov , G. Rohringer , A. N. Rubtsov