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Twisted bilayer graphene aligned with hexagonal boron nitride (TBG/hBN) hosts rich topological and correlated quantum phases, such as (fractional) Chern insulators, whose character is dictated by the topology of the moir\'{e} flat band.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-01 Huiwen Wang , Wei Jiang

The recent observed anomalous Hall effect in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) aligned to hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) and unconventional ferroelectricity in Bernal bilayer graphene sandwiched by hBN present a new platform to tune…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-01 Min Long , Zhen Zhan , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Jose Ángel Silva-Guillén , Francisco Guinea , Shengjun Yuan

Twisting bilayers of two-dimensional topological insulators has the potential to create unique quantum states of matter. Here, we successfully synthesized a twisted bilayer of germanene on Ge2Pt(101) with a 21.8$^o$ degrees twist angle,…

The group of moir\'e graphene superconductors keeps growing, and by now it contains twisted graphene multilayers and twisted double bilayers. We analyze the contribution of long range charge fluctuations in the superconductivity of twisted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-05 Min Long , Alejandro Jimeno-Pozo , Hector Sainz-Cruz , Pierre A. Pantaleon , Francisco Guinea

When using hexagonal boron-nitride (hBN) as a substrate for graphene, the resulting moir\'e pattern creates secondary Dirac points. By encapsulating a multilayer graphene within aligned hBN sheets the controlled moir\'e stacking may offer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-14 Robin Smeyers , Lucian Covaci , Milorad V. Milošević

The electronic dispersion of a graphene bilayer is highly dependent on rotational mismatch between layers and can be further manipulated by electrical gating. This allows for an unprecedented control over electronic properties and opens up…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 Johannes C. Rode , Dmitri Smirnov , Hennrik Schmidt , Rolf J. Haug

Symmetry breaking is an effective tool for tuning the transport and topological properties of 2D layered materials. Among these materials, twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) has emerged as a promising platform for new physics, characterized by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 Cunyuan Jiang , Matteo Baggioli , Qing-Dong Jiang

The recent discovery of correlated insulator states and superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has paved the way to the experimental investigation of electronic correlations in tunable flat band systems realized in…

We investigate the electronic structure of the flat bands induced by moir\'e superlattices and electric fields in nearly aligned ABC trilayer graphene-boron nitride interfaces where Coulomb effects can lead to correlated gapped phases. Our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Bheema Lingam Chittari , Guorui Chen , Yuanbo Zhang , Feng Wang , Jeil Jung

Recently twisted bilayer graphene (t-BLG) emerges as a new strongly correlated physical platform near a magic twist angle, which hosts many exciting phenomena such as the Mott-like insulating phases, unconventional superconducting behavior…

Electronic correlations in two-dimensional materials play a crucial role in stabilising emergent phases of matter. The realisation of correlation-driven phenomena in graphene has remained a longstanding goal, primarily due to the absence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Saisab Bhowmik , Arindam Ghosh , U. Chandni

Exploring the topological characteristics of electronic bands is essential in condensed matter physics. Moir\'e materials featuring flat bands provide a versatile platform for engineering band topology and correlation effects. In moir\'e…

Interlayer sliding, together with twist angle, is a crucial parameter that defines the atomic registry and thus determines the properties of two-dimensional (2D) material homobilayers. Here, we theoretically demonstrate that controlled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Jie Pan , Huanhuan Wang , Lin Zou , Xiaoyu Wang , Lihao Zhang , Xueyan Dong , Haibo Xie , Yi Ding , Yuze Zhang , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Shuxi Wang , Zhe Wang

We develop a diagrammatic perturbation theory to account for the emergence of moir\'e bands in the continuum model of twisted bilayer graphene. Our framework is build upon treating the moir\'e potential as a perturbation that transfers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 Federico Escudero

Recent studies have shown that moir\'{e} flat bands in a twisted bilayer graphene(TBG) can acquire nontrivial Berry curvatures when aligned with hexagonal boron nitride substrate [1, 2], which can be manifested as a correlated Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-15 Cheng-Ping Zhang , Jiewen Xiao , Benjamin T. Zhou , Jin-Xin Hu , Ying-Ming Xie , Binghai Yan , K. T. Law

The electronic properties of bilayer graphene strongly depend on relative orientation of the two atomic lattices. Whereas Bernal-stacked graphene is most commonly studied, a rotational mismatch between layers opens up a whole new field of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-15 Hennrik Schmidt , Johannes C. Rode , Dmitri Smirnov , Rolf J. Haug

Unlike the spin-1/2 fermions, the Lieb and Dice lattices both host triply-degenerate low-energy excitations. Here, we discuss Moir\'e structures involving twisted bilayers of these lattices, which are shown to exhibit a tunable number of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-05 Xiaoting Zhou , Yi-Chun Hung , Baokai Wang , Arun Bansil

Graphene-based moir\'e superlattice featuring flat bands is a promising platform for studying strongly correlated states. By tuning two twist angles and displacement fields in twisted mono-mono-bilayer graphene (TMMBG), we observed a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-01 Jin Jiang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Mitali Banerjee

We experimentally investigate the band structures of chirally twisted triple bilayer graphene. The new kind of moir\'e structure, formed by three pieces of helically stacked Bernal bilayer graphene, has flat bands at charge neutral point…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Wenlu Lin , Wenxuan Wang , Shimin Cao , Miao Liang , Lili Zhao , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jinhua Gao , Jianhao Chen , Xiaobo Lu , Yang Liu

By virtue of being atomically thin, the electronic properties of heterostructures built from two-dimensional materials are strongly influenced by atomic relaxation. The atomic layers behave as flexible membranes rather than rigid crystals.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-07 Mohammed M. Al Ezzi , Gayani N. Pallewela , Christophe De Beule , E. J. Mele , Shaffique Adam