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Extensive investigations on the Moir\'e magic-angle have been conducted in twisted bilayer graphene, unlocking the mystery of unconventional superconductivity and insulating states. In analog to magic angle, here we demonstrate the new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-24 Qingxiang Ji , Bohan Li , Johan Christensen , Changguo Wang , Muamer Kadic

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

Van der Waals heterostructures obtained by artificially stacking two-dimensional crystals represent the frontier of material engineering, demonstrating properties superior to those of the starting materials. Fine control of the interlayer…

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene is a tunable material with remarkably flat energy bands near the Fermi level, leading to fascinating transport properties and correlated states at low temperatures. However, grown pristine samples of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Aleksander Sanjuan Ciepielewski , Jakub Tworzydło , Timo Hyart , Alexander Lau

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

In the vicinity of the magic angle in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), the two low-energy van Hove singularities (VHSs) become exceedingly narrow1-10 and many exotic correlated states, such as superconductivity, ferromagnetism, and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-25 Yu Zhang , Zhe Hou , Ya-Xin Zhao , Zi-Han Guo , Yi-Wen Liu , Si-Yu Li , Ya-Ning Ren , Qing-Feng Sun , Lin He

The absorption energy of atomic hydrogen at rotated graphene bilayers is studied using ab initio methods based on the density functional theory including van der Waals interactions. We find that, due to the surface corrugation induced by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-06 Ivan Brihuega , Felix Yndurain

Breakthroughs in two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures have revealed that twisting creates a moir\'e pattern that quenches the kinetic energy of electrons, allowing for exotic many-body states. We show that cold-atomic, trapped…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-12 Yixing Fu , E. J. König , J. H. Wilson , Yang-Zhi Chou , J. H. Pixley

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MtBLG) has proven to be an extremely promising new platform to realize and study a host of emergent quantum phases arising from the strong correlations in its narrow bandwidth flat band. In this regard,…

The Bistritzer-MacDonald continuum model (BM model) describes the low-energy moir\'e bands for twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) at small twist angles. We derive a generalized continuum model for TBG near any commensurate twist angle, which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-20 Michael G. Scheer , Kaiyuan Gu , Biao Lian

We present a comprehensive first-principles study of twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) for a wide range of twist angles, with a focus on structural and electronic properties. By employing density functional theory (DFT) with an optimized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Albert Zhu , Daniel Bennett , Daniel T. Larson , Mohammed M. Al Ezzi , Efstratios Manousakis , Efthimios Kaxiras

Moir\'e systems displaying flat bands have emerged as novel platforms to study correlated electron phenomena. Insulating and superconducting states appear upon doping magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), and there is evidence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-17 M. J. Calderón , E. Bascones

We studied the real space structure of states in twisted bilayer graphene at the `magic angle' $\theta = 1.08^\circ$. The flat bands close to charge neutrality are composed of a mix of `ring' and `center' orbitals around the AA stacking…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-02 Louk Rademaker , Paula Mellado

The recently demonstrated unconventional superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) opens the possibility for interesting applications of two-dimensional layers that involve correlated electron states. Here we explore the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-30 Stephen Carr , Shiang Fang , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Efthimios Kaxiras

We construct a heavy fermion representation for twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) systems. Two local orbitals (per spin/valley) are analytically found, which are exactly the maximally localized zero modes of the continuum Hamiltonian near the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-20 Hao Shi , Xi Dai

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

We numerically investigate the electronic transport properties between two mesoscopic graphene disks with a twist by employing the density functional theory coupled with non-equilibrium Green's function technique. By attaching two graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Yulei Han , Yafei Ren , Xinlong Dong , Junjie Zeng , Wei Ren , Zhenhua Qiao

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

We analyze the zero-energy sector of the trigonal zigzag nanodisk and corner based on the Dirac theory of graphene. The zero-energy states are shown to be indexed by the edge momentum and grouped according to the irreducible representation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-19 Motohiko Ezawa

We study the electronic properties of a twisted trilayer graphene, where two of the layers have Bernal stacking and the third one has a relative rotation with respect to the AB-stacked layers. Near the Dirac point, the AB-twisted trilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 E. Suárez Morell , M. Pacheco , L. Chico , L. Brey