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Twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) has emerged as a promising platform to explore exotic electronic phases. However, the formation of moir\'e patterns in tBLG has thus far been confined to the introduction of twist angles between the layers.…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-10 Gabriel R. Schleder , Michele Pizzochero , Efthimios Kaxiras

Twisted bilayer graphene is a rich condensed matter system, which allows one to tune energy scales and electronic correlations. The low-energy physics of the resulting moir\'e structure can be mathematically described in terms of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Alireza Parhizkar , Victor Galitski

Equilibrium properties of electrons in double-heterojunction AlGaAs/GaAs\AlGaAs structures are investigated theoretically, using a full self-consistent numerical method. The transition from single to bilayer electron systems is discussed…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 L. Smrcka , T. Jungwirth

We predict that twisted bilayers of 1T-ZrS$_2$ realize a novel and tunable platform to engineer two-dimensional topological quantum phases dominated by strong spin-orbit interactions. At small twist angles, ZrS$_2$ heterostructures give…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-08-30 Martin Claassen , Lede Xian , Dante M. Kennes , Angel Rubio

Bilayer crystals, formed by stacking monolayers of two-dimensional (2D) crystals, create interlayer potentials that govern excitonic phenomena but are constrained by their fixed covalent lattices. Replacing one layer with an atomically thin…

Structural engineering of van der Waals heterostructures via stacking and twisting has recently been used to create moir\'e superlattices, enabling the realization of new optical and electronic properties in solid-state systems. In…

Twisted layers of atomically thin two-dimensional materials realize a broad range of novel quantum materials with engineered optical and transport phenomena arising from spin and valley degrees of freedom and strong electron correlations in…

Controlling ion transport is a fundamental challenge for advanced energy storage. Bilayer graphene offers a unique platform for modulating ion diffusion via twist-angle-dependent moire superlattices, yet conventional stacking configurations…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-31 Gen Fukuzawa , Yebin Lee , Teruyasu Mizoguchi

Motivated by recent observation of the quantum spin Hall effect in monolayer germanene and twisted bilayer transition-metal-dichalcogenides (TMDs), we study the topological phases of moir\'e twisted bilayers with time-reversal symmetry and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Yi-Ming Wu , Daniel Shaffer , Zhengzhi Wu , Luiz H. Santos

The emerging field of twistronics, which harnesses the twist angle between two-dimensional materials, represents a promising route for the design of quantum materials, as the twist-angle-induced superlattices offer means to control topology…

The effect of an hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) layer close aligned with twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) is studied. At sufficiently low angles between twisted bilayer graphene and hBN, $\theta_{hBN} \lesssim 2^\circ$, the graphene electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-28 Tommaso Cea , Pierre A. Pantaleon , Francisco Guinea

Quantum gases consisting of species with distinct quantum statistics, such as Bose-Fermi mixtures, can behave in a fundamentally different way than their unmixed constituents. This makes them an essential platform for studying emergent…

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) from atoms is a coherent light source that opens up attosecond physics, but it is the application of HHG to solids that brings much of excitement for the last decade. Here we report a completely new kind…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-28 G. P. Zhang , Y. H. Bai

Encapsulating graphene in hexagonal Boron Nitride has several advantages: the highest mobilities reported to date are achieved in this way, and precise nanostructuring of graphene becomes feasible through the protective hBN layers.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Yongping Du , Ning Xu , Xianqing Lin , Antti-Pekka Jauho

Moir\'e engineering offers new pathways for manipulating emergent states in twisted layered materials and lattice-mismatched heterostructures. With the key role of the geometry of the underlying lattice in mind, here we introduce the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-17 Yi-Chun Hung , Xiaoting Zhou , Arun Bansil

Inspired by recent discovery of correlated insulating states in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), we study a two-orbital Hubbard model on the honeycomb lattice with two electrons per unit cell. Based on the real-space density matrix…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-28 Zheng Zhu , D. N. Sheng , Liang Fu

Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is a prominent member in the growing family of two-dimensional materials with potential applications ranging from being an atomically smooth support for other 2D materials to templating growth of molecular…

We derive the Hamiltonian for trilayer moir\'e systems with the Coulomb interaction projected onto the bands near the charge neutrality point. Motivated by the latest experimental results, we focus on the twisted symmetric trilayer graphene…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-19 Dumitru Călugăru , Fang Xie , Zhi-Da Song , Biao Lian , Nicolas Regnault , B. Andrei Bernevig

Symmetry considerations suggest that moire superlattices formed by twisted two-dimensional materials should preserve overall inversion symmetry. However, experiments consistently report robust ferroelectricity in systems such as twisted…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Di Fan , Changming Ke , Shi Liu

We present a systematic study of the energy levels of twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) quantum dots (QD) and rings (QR) under an external perpendicular magnetic field. The confinement structures are modeled by a circular dot-like- and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-17 N. S. Bandeira , Andrey Chaves , L. V. de Castro , R. N. Costa Filho , M. Mirzakhani , F. M. Peeters , D. R. da Costa