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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

We theoretically investigate the electronic structures of moir\'{e} superlattices arising in monolayer / bilayer graphene stacked on hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) in presence and absence of magnetic field. We develop an effective continuum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-10 Pilkyung Moon , Mikito Koshino

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) has taken the spotlight in the condensed matter community since the discovery of correlated phases at the so-called magic angle. Interestingly, the role of a substrate on the electronic properties of TBG has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Min Long , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Zhen Zhan , Francisco Guinea , Jose Ángel Silva-Guillén , Shengjun Yuan

We study the collective excitation modes of the Chern insulator states in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene aligned with hexagonal boron nitride (TBG/BN) at odd integer fillings ($\nu$) of the flat bands. For the $1 \times 1$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 Xianqing Lin , Quan Zhou , Cheng Li , Jun Ni

We analyze the effects of the long-range Coulomb interaction on the distribution of Berry curvature among the bands near charge neutrality of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) closely aligned with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). Due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-04 Pierre A. Pantaleón , Vo Tien Phong , Gerardo G. Naumis , Francisco Guinea

We study the correlated insulating phases of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) in the absence of lattice strain at integer filling $\nu=\pm3$. Using the self-consistent Hartree-Fock method on a particle-hole symmetric model and allowing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-01 Fang Xie , Jian Kang , B. Andrei Bernevig , Oskar Vafek , Nicolas Regnault

Rhombohedral $N = 3$ trilayer graphene on hexagonal boron nitride (TLG/BN) hosts gate-tunable, valley-contrasting, nearly flat topological bands that can trigger spontaneous quantum Hall phases under appropriate conditions of the valley and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 David Andres Galeano Gonzalez , Bheema Lingam Chittari , Youngju Park , Jin-Hua Sun , Jeil Jung

Equilibrium interlayer exciton condensation is common in bilayer quantum Hall systems and is characterized by spontaneous phase coherence between isolated layers. It has been predicted that similar physics can occur in the absence of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Yongxin Zeng , Allan H. MacDonald , Nemin Wei

Valley Hall effect has been observed in asymmetric single-layer and bilayer graphene systems. In single-layer graphene systems, asymmetry is introduced by aligning graphene with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) with a near-zero twist angle,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-16 Teppei Shintaku , Afsal Kareekunnan , Masashi Akabori , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Hiroshi Mizuta

Our theoretical study unfolds the topological phase transitions (within bands of the Moir\'e super-lattice) in small angle twisted double bilayer graphene (tDBLG) under the influence of external gate voltage and intrinsic spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 Kamalesh Bera , Priyanka Mohan , Arijit Saha

Twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) forms a quasicrystal whose structural and electronic properties depend on the angle of rotation between its layers. Here we present a scanning tunneling microscopy study of gate-tunable tBLG devices supported…

We propose that the electronic structure of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) can be understood as Dirac fermions coupled with opposite pseudo magnetic fields generated by the moir\'e pattern. The two low-energy flat bands from each monolayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-24 Jianpeng Liu , Junwei Liu , Xi Dai

Twisted double bilayer graphene (tDBG) has emerged as an especially rich platform for studying strongly correlated and topological states of matter. The material features moir\'e bands that can be continuously deformed by both perpendicular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Minhao He , Jiaqi Cai , Ya-Hui Zhang , Yang Liu , Yuhao Li , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , David H. Cobden , Matthew Yankowitz , Xiaodong Xu

The relative twist angle in heterostructures of two-dimensional (2D) materials with similar lattice constants result in a dramatic alteration of the electronic properties. Here, we investigate the electrical and magnetotransport properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Manabendra Kuiri , Saurabh Kumar Srivastav , Sujay Ray , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Tanmoy Das , Anindya Das

In the present work, we consider the excitonic effects in the twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) within the rotated bilayer Hubbard model. Both, intralayer and interlayer Coulomb interactions have been considered and the half-filling condition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 V. Apinyan , T. K. Kopeć

At magic twisted angles, Dirac cones in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) can evolve into flat bands, serving as a critical playground for the study of strongly correlated physics. When chiral symmetry is introduced, rigorous mathematical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-11 Fan Cui , Congcong Le , Qiang Zhang , Xianxin Wu , Jiangping Hu , Ching-Kai Chiu

The electronic properties of moir\'e heterostructures depend sensitively on the relative orientation between layers of the stack. For example, near-magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) commonly shows superconductivity, yet a TBG…

One- and two-dimensional bilayer systems are examples of ultra-tunable quantum materials that are considered as the basis for the new generation of electronic and photonic devices. Here we develop a general theory of the electron band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 D. V. Chalin , D. I. Levshov , A. E. Myasnikova , S. B. Rochal

Moir\'e superlattices engineer band properties and enable observation of fractal energy spectra of Hofstadter butterfly. Recently, correlated-electron physics hosted by flat bands in small-angle moir\'e systems has been at the foreground.…

We report on the fabrication and characterization of dual-gated hexagonal boron nitride (hBN)/bilayer-graphene (BLG) superlattices. Due to the moire effect, the hBN/BLG superlattice harbors an energy gap at the charge neutral point (CNP)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Takuya Iwasaki , Yoshifumi Morita