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We study the energy spectrum of moir\'e systems under a uniform magnetic field. The superlattice potential generally broadens Landau levels into Chern bands with finite bandwidth. However, we find that these Chern bands become flat at a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-13 Nisarga Paul , Philip J. D. Crowley , Trithep Devakul , Liang Fu

The supercurrent for the surface superconductivity of a flat-band multilayered rhombohedral graphene is calculated. Despite the absence of dispersion of the excitation spectrum, the supercurrent is finite. The critical current is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-28 N. B. Kopnin

Influence of the chiral symmetry on the many-body problem in multilayer graphene in magnetic fields is investigated. For a spinless electron model on the honeycomb lattice the many-body ground state is shown to be a doubly-degenerate chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Yuji Hamamoto , Tohru Kawarabayashi , Hideo Aoki , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

Flat bands are an ideal environment to realize unconventional electronic phases. Here, we show that fermionic systems with dissipation governed by a Bloch Lindbladian can realize dispersionless bands for sufficiently strong coupling to an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-27 Spenser Talkington , Martin Claassen

We study strongly correlated fractional topological phases on a two-sphere threaded by a magnetic dipole field with globally vanishing flux. Solving the Dirac equation in this background produces spheroidal wavefunctions forming a highly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-08 Jeff Murugan

We study the effect of an in-plane magnetic field on the non-interacting dispersion of twisted bilayer graphene. Our analysis is rooted in the chirally symmetric continuum model, whose zero-field band structure hosts exactly flat bands and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-20 Yves H. Kwan , S. A. Parameswaran , S. L. Sondhi

We study the electronic band structure and the topological property of the twisted double bilayer graphene, or a pair of AB-stacked bilayer graphenes rotationally stacked on top of each other. We consider two different arrangements, AB-AB…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-10 Mikito Koshino

We present the appearance of nearly flat band states with nonzero Chern numbers in a two-dimensional "diamond-octagon" lattice model comprising two kinds of elementary plaquette geometries, diamond and octagon, respectively. We show that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-17 Biplab Pal

A model for two-dimensional electronic, photonic, and mechanical metamaterial systems is presented, which has flat one-dimensional zero-mode energy bands and stable localized states of a topological origin confined within twin boundaries,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 Linghua Zhu , Emil Prodan , Keun Hyuk Ahn

In this Letter, we study topological flat bands with distinct features that deviate from conventional Landau level behavior. We show that even in the ideal quantum geometry limit, moire flat band systems can exhibit physical phenomena…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-27 Siddhartha Sarkar , Xiaohan Wan , Ang-Kun Wu , Shi-Zeng Lin , Kai Sun

We theoretically study the electronic band structure and the Hall effect in the negatively-curved three-dimensional (3D) graphene network in magnetic fields. We found that special energy regions appear above and below the zero-energy Landau…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 Toshiki Kiryu , Mikito Koshino

Recent theoretical works have demonstrated various robust Abelian and non-Abelian fractional topological phases in lattice models with topological flat bands carrying Chern number C=1. Here we study hard-core bosons and interacting fermions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-11-07 Yi-Fei Wang , Hong Yao , Chang-De Gong , D. N. Sheng

Ideal $C=1$ Chern bands exhibit a Landau level correspondence: they factorize as a lowest Landau levels and a spinor wavefunction that spans the layer index. We demonstrate that, in single Dirac moir\'e models, the spinor develops generally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-26 Daniele Guerci , Jie Wang , Christophe Mora

We investigate the electronic structure of alternating-twist triple Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene (t3BG) as a function of interlayer coupling $\omega$, twist angle $\theta$, interlayer potential difference $\Delta$, and top-bottom…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Jiseon Shin , Bheema Lingam Chittari , Yunsu Jang , Hongki Min , Jeil Jung

This paper presents a mathematical and numerical analysis of the flatband wavefunctions occurring in the chiral model of twisted bilayer graphene at the "magic" twist angles. We show that the chiral model possesses an exact intra-valley…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Jie Wang , Yunqin Zheng , Andrew J. Millis , Jennifer Cano

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.…

A flat band can be studied an infinitely strong coupling, realized in a simple system. Therefore, its holographic realization should be interesting. Laia and Tong gave a realization of the flat band over the entire momentum region by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-23 Jeong-Won Seo , Taewon Yuk , Young-Kwon Han , Sang-Jin Sin

It has been recently demonstrated experimentally that graphene, or single-layer carbon, is a gapless semiconductor with massless Dirac energy spectrum. A finite conductivity per channel of order of $e^{2}/h$ in the limit of zero temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. I. Katsnelson

Landau level broadening mechanisms in electrically neutral and quasineutral graphene were investigated through micro-magneto-Raman experiments in three different samples, namely, a natural single-layer graphene flake and a back-gated…

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