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We investigate the Twisted Bilayer Graphene (TBG) model to obtain an analytic understanding of its energetics and wavefunctions needed for many-body calculations. We provide an approximation scheme which first elucidates why the BM…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-29 B. Andrei Bernevig , Zhi-Da Song , Nicolas Regnault , Biao Lian

We construct an analytic continuum model to describe the electronic structure and the electron-phonon interaction in twisted bilayer graphenes with arbitrary lattice deformation. Starting from the tight-binding model, we derive the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Mikito Koshino , Nguyen N. T. Nam

Magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) presents a fascinating platform for investigating the effects of electron interactions in topological flat bands. The Bistritzer-MacDonald (BM) model provides a simplified quantitative…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-11 Zhi-Yu Xiao , Shiwei Zhang

An accurate description of the low-energy electronic bands in twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) is of great interest due to their relation to correlated electron phases, such as superconductivity and Mott-insulator behavior at half-filling.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-17 Daniel Bennett , Daniel T. Larson , Louis Sharma , Stephen Carr , Efthimios Kaxiras

Despite much theoretical work, developing a comprehensive ab initio model for twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) has proven challenging due to the inherent trade-off between accurately describing the band structure and incorporating the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-25 Run Hou , Shouvik Sur , Lucas K. Wagner , Andriy H. Nevidomskyy

The recently-introduced Topological Heavy Fermion (THF) model [Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 047601] of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) aims to reconcile the quantum-dot-like electronic structure of the latter observed by scanning tunneling…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-07 Dumitru Călugăru , Maksim Borovkov , Liam L. H. Lau , Piers Coleman , Zhi-Da Song , B. Andrei Bernevig

We provide a systematic real space derivation of the continuum Hamiltonian for a graphene bilayer starting from a microscopic lattice theory, allowing for an arbitrary inhomogeneous smooth lattice deformation, including a twist. Two…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-24 Oskar Vafek , Jian Kang

The newly realized twisted graphene systems such as twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG), and twisted trilayer graphene (TTG) have attracted widespread theoretical attention. Therefore, a simple and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Jin Cao , Maoyuan Wang , Cheng-Cheng Liu , Yugui Yao

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) develops large moir\'e patterns at small twist angles with flat energy bands hosting domes of superconductivity. The large system size and intricate band structure have however hampered investigations into the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-07-19 Tomas Löthman , Johann Schmidt , Fariborz Parhizgar , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

We investigate bilayers of nanoporous graphene (NPG), laterally bonded carbon nanoribbons, and graphene. The electronic and transport properties are explored as a function of the interlayer twist angle using an atomistic tight-binding model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-12 Xabier Diaz de Cerio , Aleksander Bach Lorentzen , Mads Brandbyge , Aran Garcia-Lekue

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

The recent observation of superconductivity in proximity to an insulating phase in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) at small `magic' twist angles has been linked to the existence of nearly-flat bands, which make TBG a fresh playground to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-12-11 Jörn W. F. Venderbos , Rafael M. Fernandes

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) exhibits a wide range of intriguing physical properties, such as superconductivity, ferromagnetism, and superlubricity. Depending on the twist angle, periodic moir\'e superlattices form in twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Vahid Morovati , Zhiming Xue , Kenneth M. Liechti , Rui Huang

While in pristine bilayer graphene the Berry curvature dipole (BCD), a necessary ingredient for the nonlinear anomalous Hall effect, is zero, uniaxial strain can give rise to finite BCD. We investigate this by using a tight-binding (TB)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Karel Cuypers , Robin Smeyers , Bert Jorissen , Lucian Covaci

Topologically protected corner states serve as a key indicator for two-dimensional higher-order topological insulators, yet they have not been experimentally identified in realistic materials. Here, by utilizing the effective tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-15 Xiaolin Wan , Junjie Zeng , Ruixiang Zhu , Dong-Hui Xu , Baobing Zheng , Rui Wang

We develop an effective extended Hubbard model to describe the low-energy electronic properties of the twisted bilayer graphene. By using the Bloch states in the effective continuum model and with the aid of the maximally localized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-03 Mikito Koshino , Noah F. Q. Yuan , Takashi Koretsune , Masayuki Ochi , Kazuhiko Kuroki , Liang Fu

This paper investigates the mathematical properties of independent-electron models for twisted bilayer graphene by examining the density-of-states of corresponding single-particle Hamiltonians using tools from semiclassical analysis. This…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Eric Cancès , Long Meng

Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene (BLG) provides an ideal basis for gate-controlled, and free of etching, electronic devices. Theoretical modeling of realistic devices is an essential part of research, however, simulations of large-scale BLG…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-16 Szu-Chao Chen , Alina Mreńca-Kolasińska , Ming-Hao Liu

We investigate the mesoscopic transport through a twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) consisting of a clean graphene nanoribbon on the bottom and a disordered graphene disc on the top. We show that, with strong top-layer disorder the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Zhe Hou , Ya-Yun Hu , Guang-Wen Yang

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