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Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) is notable as a highly tunable platform for investigating strongly correlated phenomena such as high-$T_c$ superconductivity and quantum spin liquids, due to easy control of doping level through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-04 Xiao Chen , Shuanglong Liu , James N Fry , Hai-Ping Cheng

When two graphene layers are rotated from AA or AB configuration by a small angle, the band structure changes dramatically. Numerical calculations have shown that, at certain discrete angles called magic angles, the low energy bands become…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-24 Hridis K. Pal

Flat band electronic modes in twisted graphene bilayers are responsible for superconducting and other highly correlated electron-electron phases. Although some hints were known of a possible connection between the quantum Hall effect and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Leonardo A. Navarro-Labastida , Gerardo G. Naumis

We show that intervalley coupling can be induced in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) by aligning the bottom graphene layer with either of two types of commensurate insulating triangular Bravais lattice substrate. The intervalley coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Bo-Ting Chen , Michael G. Scheer , Biao Lian

Thanks to the recent discovery on the magic-angle bilayer graphene, twistronics is quickly becom11 ing a burgeoning field in condensed matter physics. This letter expands the realm of twistronics to acoustics by introducing twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Yuanchen Deng , Mourad Oudich , Nikhil JRK Gerard , Jun Ji , Minghui Lu , Yun Jing

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) has been studied extensively owing to its wealth of symmetry-broken phases, correlated Chern insulators, orbital magnetism, and superconductivity. In particular, the anomalous Hall effect (AHE)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Chun-Chih Tseng , Xuetao Ma , Zhaoyu Liu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jiun-Haw Chu , Matthew Yankowitz

We present a numerical study of three-layer graphene heterostructures in which the layers are twisted by the magic angle ($\sim$1.1$^\circ$) or by $\sim$$30^\circ$ to form a graphene quasicrystal. The heterostacks are described using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Pedro Alcázar Guerrero , Viet-Hung Nguyen , Aron W. Cummings , Jean-Christophe Charlier , Stephan Roche

Magic angles in the chiral model of twisted bilayer graphene are parameters for which the chiral version of the Bistritzer--MacDonald Hamiltonian exhibits a flat band at energy zero. We compute the sums over powers of (complex) magic angles…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-06-02 Simon Becker , Tristan Humbert , Maciej Zworski

Helical twisted trilayer graphene exhibits zero-energy flat bands with large degeneracy in the chiral limit. The flat bands emerge at a discrete set of magic twist angles and feature properties intrinsically distinct from those realized in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Daniele Guerci , Yuncheng Mao , Christophe Mora

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) is known to have disorder in its twist angle. We show that in terms of a Dirac equation with a random gauge potential ${\bf A}({\bf r})$ this disorder becomes huge when the average twist angle is near the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Baruch Horovitz , Pierre Le Doussal

Twisted bilayer graphenes with magical angle exhibit strongly correlated electronic properties because of the isolated flat band at the Fermi level. We studied the twisted bilayer graphene with substrates on both layers. The substrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-30 Ma Luo

The discovery of correlated electronic phases, including Mott-like insulators and superconductivity, in twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) near the magic angle, and the intriguing similarity of their phenomenology to that of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-21 Yuhang Jiang , Jinhai Mao , Xinyuan Lai , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Kristjan Haule , Eva Y. Andrei

We study the atomic and electronic structures of the commensurate double moir\'{e} superlattices in fully relaxed twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) nearly aligned with the hexagonal boron nitride (BN). The single-particle effective Hamiltonian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-31 Xianqing Lin , Jun Ni

Flat electronic bands can accommodate a plethora of interaction driven quantum phases, since kinetic energy is quenched therein and electronic interactions therefore prevail. Twisted bilayer graphene, near so-called the "magic angles",…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Bitan Roy , Vladimir Juricic

We consider a configuration of three stacked graphene monolayers with equal consecutive twist angles $\theta$. Remarkably, in the chiral limit when interlayer coupling terms between $\textrm{AA}$ sites of the moir\'{e} pattern are neglected…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-29 Fedor K. Popov , Grigory Tarnopolsky

A detailed understanding of interacting electrons in twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) near the magic angle is required to gain insights into the physical origin of the observed broken symmetry phases. Here, we present extensive atomistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-02 Zachary A. H. Goodwin , Valerio Vitale , Xia Liang , Arash A. Mostofi , Johannes Lischner

We investigate the effects of single, multiple, and extended defects in the form of non-magnetic impurities and vacancies in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) at and away from the magic angle, using a fully atomistic model and focusing on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-09 Lucas Baldo , Tomas Löthman , Patric Holmvall , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

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

Moir\'e superlattice in twisted bilayer graphene has been proven to be a versatile platform for exploring exotic quantum phases. Extensive investigations have been invoked focusing on the zero-magnetic-field phase diagram at the magic twist…

Several numerical studies have shown that the electronic properties of twisted bilayers of graphene (TBLG) and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are tunable by strain engineering of the stacking layers. In particular, the flatness of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-24 Marwa Mannaï , Sonia Haddad