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We propose a method for studying the strong interaction regimes in twisted bilayer graphene using hybrid Wannier functions, that are Wannier-like in one direction and Bloch-like in the other. We focus on the active bands as given by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Kasra Hejazi , Xiao Chen , Leon Balents

Recently, Ref. [1] reformulated magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) as a topological heavy fermion problem, and used this reformulation to provide a deeper understanding for the correlated phases at integer fillings. In this work,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-21 Jiabin Yu , Ming Xie , B. Andrei Bernevig , Sankar Das Sarma

Interactions among electrons and the topology of their energy bands can create novel quantum phases of matter. Most topological electronic phases appear in systems with weak electron-electron interactions. The instances where topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-25 Kevin P. Nuckolls , Myungchul Oh , Dillon Wong , Biao Lian , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , B. Andrei Bernevig , Ali Yazdani

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

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has recently become a thriving material platform realizing correlated electron phenomena taking place within its topological flat bands. Several numerical and analytical methods have been applied to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-17 Bin-Bin Chen , Yuan Da Liao , Ziyu Chen , Oskar Vafek , Jian Kang , Wei Li , Zi Yang Meng

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) hosts a multitude of strongly correlated states at partial fillings of its flat bands. In a magnetic field, these flat bands further evolve into a unique Hofstadter spectrum renormalized by…

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) can host an intriguing variety of gate-tunable correlated states, including superconducting and correlated insulator states. Junction-based superconducting devices, such as Josephson junctions…

Recent transport studies have demonstrated the great potential of twisted monolayer-bilayer graphene (tMBG) as a new platform to host moir\'e flat bands with a higher tunability than twisted bilayer graphene (tBG). However, a direct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-10 Ling-Hui Tong , Qingjun Tong , Li-Zhen Yang , Yue-Ying Zhou , Qilong Wu , Yuan Tian , Li Zhang , Lijie Zhang , Zhihui Qin , Long-Jing Yin

In a groundbreaking experimental advance it was recently shown that by stacking two sheets of graphene atop of each other at a twist angle close to one of the so called "magic angles", an effective two-dimensional correlated system emerges.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-01 Lede Xian , Dante M. Kennes , Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean , Massimo Altarelli , Angel Rubio

We propose a generalized Peierls substitution method in conjunction with the tight-binding model to explore the magnetic quantization and quantum Hall effect in twisted multilayer graphene under a magnetic field. The Bloch-basis…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Thi-Nga Do , Po-Hsin Shih , Hsin Lin , Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs , Tay-Rong Chang

We introduce a complete physical model for the single-particle electronic structure of twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG), which incorporates the crucial role of lattice relaxation. Our model, based on $k \cdot p$ perturbation theory, combines…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Stephen Carr , Shiang Fang , Ziyan Zhu , Efthimios Kaxiras

The ground states of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) at chiral and flat-band limit with integer fillings are known from exact solutions, while their dynamical and thermodynamical properties are revealed by unbiased quantum Monte Carlo (QMC)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-15 Cheng Huang , Xu Zhang , Gaopei Pan , Heqiu Li , Kai Sun , Xi Dai , Ziyang Meng

The salient property of the electronic band structure of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), at the so-called magic angle (MA), is the emergence of flat bands around the charge neutrality point. These bands are associated with the observed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-04 Sonia Haddad , Takeo Kato , Jihang Zhu , Lassaad Mandhour

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 show that for magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) away from charge neutrality, although quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations suffer from the sign problem, the computational complexity is at most polynomial at certain integer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-22 Xu Zhang , Gaopei Pan , Bin-Bin Chen , Heqiu Li , Kai Sun , Zi Yang Meng

Moir\'{e} systems such as magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene have attracted significant attention due to their ability to host correlated phenomena including superconductivity and strongly correlated insulating states. By defining the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-08 Liangtao Peng , Giovanni Vignale , Shaffique Adam

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) exhibits correlated phenomena such as superconductivity and Mott insulating state related to the weakly dispersing flat band near the Fermi energy. Beyond its moir\'e period, such flat band is…

Recent experiments have observed strongly correlated physics in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) at very small angles, along with nearly flat electron bands at certain fillings. A good starting point in understanding the physics is a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-16 Kasra Hejazi , Chunxiao Liu , Hassan Shapourian , Xiao Chen , Leon Balents

Correlated insulators and superconductivity have been observed in "magic-angle" twisted bilayer graphene, when the nearly flat bands close to neutrality are partially filled. While a momentum-space continuum model accurately describes these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-04 Hoi Chun Po , Liujun Zou , T. Senthil , Ashvin Vishwanath

Starting with twisted bilayer graphene, graphene-based moir\'e materials have recently been established as a new platform for studying strong electron correlations. In this paper, we study twisted graphene monolayers on trilayer graphene…