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Twisted graphene bilayers show a complex electronic structure, further modified by interaction effects. The main features can be obtained from effective models, which make use a few phenomenological parameters. We analyze the influence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-04 Niels R. Walet , Francisco Guinea

Magic angle twisted bilayer graphene has emerged as a powerful platform for studying strongly correlated electron physics, owing to its almost dispersionless low-energy bands and the ability to tune the band filling by electrostatic gating.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Nikhil Tilak , Xinyuan Lai , Shuang Wu , Zhenyuan Zhang , Mingyu Xu , Raquel de Almeida Ribeiro , Paul C Canfield , Eva Y. Andrei

The electronic properties of van der Waals (vdW) structures can be substantially modified by the moire superlattice potential, which strongly depends on the twist angle among the compounds. In twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), two low-energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-02 Ya-Ning Ren , Yu Zhang , Yi-Wen Liu , Lin He

In twisted bilayer graphene, a unified understanding of the mechanisms governing temperature-dependent electronic spectra and thermodynamic properties remains controversial despite extensive theoretical efforts. Here, we present a…

The effects of the long range electrostatic interaction in twisted bilayer graphene are described using the Hartree-Fock approximation. The results show a significant dependence of the band widths and shapes on electron filling, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-29 Tommaso Cea , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Niels R. Walet , Francisco Guinea

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

The long wavelength moir\'e superlattices in twisted 2D structures have emerged as a highly tunable platform for strongly correlated electron physics. We study the moir\'e bands in twisted transition metal dichalcogenide homobilayers,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-19 Trithep Devakul , Valentin Crépel , Yang Zhang , Liang Fu

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene exhibits quasi-flat low-energy bands with Van Hove singularities close to the Fermi level. These singularities play an important role in the exotic phenomena observed in this material, such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-08 Aleksander Sanjuan Ciepielewski , Jakub Tworzydło , Timo Hyart , Alexander Lau

Twisted bilayer graphene with a twist angle of around 1.1{\deg} features a pair of isolated flat electronic bands and forms a strongly correlated electronic platform. Here, we use scanning tunneling microscopy to probe local properties of…

Rotational misalignment or twisting of two mono-layers of graphene strongly influences its electronic properties. Structurally, twisting leads to large periodic supercell structures, which in turn can support intriguing strongly correlated…

Although the strongly interacting flat bands in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) have been approached using the minimal Bistritzer-MacDonald (BM) Hamiltonian, there is mounting evidence that strain and lattice relaxation are essential in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman , Jiabin Yu , Dumitru Călugăru , Haoyu Hu , Nicolas Regnault , Oskar Vafek , Jian Kang , B. Andrei Bernevig

We present a multi-scale density functional theory (DFT) informed molecular dynamics and tight-binding (TB) approach to capture the interdependent atomic and electronic structures of twisted bilayer graphene. We calibrate the flat band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-17 Nicolas Leconte , Srivani Javvaji , Jiaqi An , Appalakondaiah Samudrala , Jeil Jung

Twisted bilayer graphene develop quasi-flat bands at specific "magic" interlayer rotation angles through an unconventional mechanism connected to carrier chirality. Quasi-flat bands are responsible for a wealth of exotic,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 María Rosendo , Fernando Peñaranda , Johan Christensen , Pablo San-Jose

This work theoretically explores how to emulate twisted double bilayer graphene with ultracold atoms in multiorbital optical lattices. In particular, the quadratic band touching of Bernal stacked bilayer graphene is emulated using a square…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-12-28 Junhyun Lee , J. H. Pixley

Recent experiments show how a bilayer graphene twisted around a certain magic angle becomes superconducting as it is doped into a region with approximate flat bands. We investigate the mean-field $s$-wave superconducting state in such a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-12-19 T. J. Peltonen , R. Ojajärvi , T. T. Heikkilä

Continuum atomic relaxation models for twisted bilayer graphene involve minimization of the sum of intralayer elastic energy and interlayer adhesion energy. The elastic energy favors a rigid twist i.e. no distortion in the twisted honeycomb…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-10 Jian Kang , Oskar Vafek

We study the effect of twisting on bilayer graphene. The effect of lattice relaxation is included; we look at the electronic structure, piezo-electric charges and spontaneous polarisation. We show that the electronic structure without…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Niels R. Walet , Francisco Guinea

We consider twisted bilayer graphene on a transition metal dichalcogenide substrate, where proximity-induced spin-orbit coupling significantly alters the eight flat bands which occur near the magic angle. The resulting band structure…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-24 Tianle Wang , Nick Bultinck , Michael P. Zaletel

The pairing symmetry of an effective Hamiltonian for interacting fermions on a twisted bilayer graphene superlattice is studied with the determinant quantum Monte Carlo method. The model has the symmetry of a triangle lattice and a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-03 Huaiming Guo , Xingchuan Zhu , Shiping Feng , Richard T. Scalettar

Twisted bilayer graphene exhibits isolated, relatively flat electronic bands near charge neutrality when the interlayer rotation is tuned to specific magic angles. These small misalignments, typically below 1.1{\deg}, result in long-period…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Antonio Palamara , Michele Pisarra , Antonello Sindona