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The chiral Hamiltonian for twisted graphene bilayers is written as a $2\times2$ matrix operator by a renormalization of the Hamiltonian that takes into account the particle-hole symmetry. This results in an effective Hamiltonian with an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 Gerardo G. Naumis , Leonardo A. Navarro-Labastida , Enrique Aguilar-Méndez , Abdiel Espinosa-Champo

The transport properties of a twisted bilayer graphene barrier are investigated for various twist angles. Remarkably, for small twist angles around the magic angle $\theta_m \sim 1.05^{\circ}$, the local currents around the AA-stacked…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-28 D. A. Bahamon , G. Gómez-Santos , T. Stauber

The understanding of strongly-correlated materials, and in particular unconventional superconductors, has puzzled physicists for decades. Such difficulties have stimulated new research paradigms, such as ultra-cold atom lattices for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-22 Yuan Cao , Valla Fatemi , Shiang Fang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Efthimios Kaxiras , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

We show that the twisted graphene bilayer can reveal unusual topological properties at low energies, as a consequence of a Dirac-point splitting. These features rely on a symmetry analysis of the electron hopping between the two layers of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-21 R. de Gail , M. O. Goerbig , F. Guinea , G. Montambaux , A. H. Castro Neto

The family of moir\'e materials provides a powerful platform for tuning interlayer couplings via the twist angle in systems with large spatial periodicity. In trilayer graphene systems, interlayer couplings at the two interfaces can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Wei-En Tseng , Mei-Yin Chou

Moir\'e systems featuring flat electronic bands exhibit a vast landscape of emergent exotic quantum states, making them one of the resourceful platforms in condensed matter physics in recent times. Tuning these systems via twist angle and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Jin Jiang , Qixuan Gao , Zekang Zhou , Cheng Shen , Mario Di Luca , Emily Hajigeorgiou , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Mitali Banerjee

Low-energy moir\'e flat bands in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (tBG) have demonstrated incredible potentials to exhibit rich exotic quantum phenomena. Theoretically, the moir\'e flat bands of tBG are based on the extended structures,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-23 Long-Jing Yin , Ling-Hui Tong , Yue-Ying Zhou , Yang Zhang , Yuan Tian , Li Zhang , Lijie Zhang , Zhihui Qin

Twisted graphene multilayers exhibit strongly correlated insulating states and superconductivity due to the presence of ultraflat bands near the charge neutral point. In this paper, the response of ultraflat bands to lattice relaxation and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-08 Zewen Wu , Zhen Zhan , Shengjun Yuan

We explain the appearance of magic angles and fractional Chern insulators in twisted K-valley homobilayer transition metal dichalcogenides by mapping their continuum model to a Landau level problem. Our approach relies on an adiabatic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-21 Nicolás Morales-Durán , Nemin Wei , Jingtian Shi , Allan H. MacDonald

The recently observed unconventional ferroelectricity in AB bilayer graphene sandwiched by hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) presents a new platform to manipulate correlated phases in multilayered van der Waals heterostructures. We present a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Ziyan Zhu , Stephen Carr , Qiong Ma , Efthimios Kaxiras

Twisted two-dimensional structures open new possibilities in band structure engineering. At magic twist angles, flat bands emerge, which give a new drive to the field of strongly correlated physics. In twisted double bilayer graphene dual…

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) and other quasi-two-dimensional moir\'e superlattices have attracted significant attention due to the emergence of various correlated and topological states associated with the flat bands in these systems. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 Xin Lu , Bo Xie , Yue Yang , Xiao Kong , Jun Li , Feng Ding , Zhu-Jun Wang , Jianpeng Liu

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

Flat bands in moir\'e systems are exciting new playgrounds for the generation and study of exotic many-body physics phenomena in low-dimensional materials. Such physics is attributed to the vanishing kinetic energy and strong spatial…

Rotational misalignment or twisting of two mono-layers of graphene strongly influences its electronic properties. Structurally, twisting leads to large periodic supercell structures, which in turn can support intriguing strongly correlated…

We compute the energy spectrum of a nearest-neighbor electron hopping model for bi-layer graphene at commensurate twist angles. Specifically, we focus on the simplest bi-layer lattices, with moire patterns that have no subcells. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-25 J. P. Rodriguez

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) near "magic angles" has emerged as a rich platform for strongly correlated states of two-dimensional Dirac semimetals. Here we show that twisted bilayers of thin-film magnetic topological insulators (MTI) with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Gaurav Chaudhary , Anton A. Burkov , Olle G. Heinonen

A remarkable feature of the band structure of bilayer graphene at small twist angle is the appearance of isolated bands near neutrality, whose bandwidth can be reduced at certain magic angles (eg. $\theta\sim 1.05^\circ$). In this regime,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-30 Liujun Zou , Hoi Chun Po , Ashvin Vishwanath , T. Senthil

This work investigates the electronic properties of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) through computational calculations, with the aim of understanding the emergence of flat bands and conditions favorable for superconductivity close to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Rajendra Paudel , Nabin Upadhya Dhakal , Nurapati Pantha

In disordered lattices, itinerant electrons typically undergo Anderson localization due to random phase interference, which suppresses their motion. By contrast, in flat-band systems where electrons are intrinsically localized owing to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Zhe Hou , Hailong Li , Qing Yan , Yu-Hang Li , Hua Jiang