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The invention of scanning probe microscopy has revolutionized the way electronic phenomena are visualized. While present-day probes can access a variety of electronic properties at a single location in space, a scanning microscope that can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-14 Alon Inbar , John Birkbeck , Jiewen Xiao , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Binghai Yan , Yuval Oreg , Ady Stern , Erez Berg , Shahal Ilani

The ongoing discoveries of graphene-based superconductors underscore the quest to understand the structure of new superconducting orders. We develop a theory that facilitates the use of the quantum twisting microscope (QTM) for that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Nemin Wei , Felix von Oppen , Leonid I. Glazman

Electron interactions in quantum materials fundamentally shape their energy bands and, with them, the material's most intriguing quantum phases. Magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) has emerged as a model system, where flat bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 J. Xiao , A. Inbar , J. Birkbeck , N. Gershon , Y. Zamir , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , E. Berg , S. Ilani

We develop a theoretical framework for probing superconductivity with momentum resolution using the quantum twisting microscope (QTM), a planar tunneling device where a graphene tip is rotated relative to a two-dimensional sample. Because…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Yuval Waschitz , Ady Stern , Yuval Oreg

We report the details of construction and testing of a Quantum Twisting Microscope, a recently developed scanning probe instrument that enables twist angle dependent electronic measurements on layered materials. Our implementation is based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Sayanwita Biswas , Ranjani Ramachandran , Patrick Irvin , Jeremy Levy

The coupling between electrons and phonons is one of the fundamental interactions in solids, underpinning a wide range of phenomena such as resistivity, heat conductivity, and superconductivity. However, direct measurements of this coupling…

We consider plasmon-assisted electron tunneling in a quantum twisting microscope (QTM). The dependence of the differential conductance on the two control parameters of the QTM -- the twist angle and bias -- reveals the plasmon spectrum as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-09 Nemin Wei , Francisco Guinea , Felix von Oppen , Leonid I. Glazman

We develop a theory of probing phonon modes of van-der-Waals materials using the quantum twisting microscope. While elastic tunneling dominates the tunneling current at small twist angles, the momentum mismatch between the K-points of tip…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Jiewen Xiao , Erez Berg , Leonid I. Glazman , Francisco Guinea , Shahal Ilani , Felix von Oppen

Charge carriers in the quantum Hall regime propagate via one-dimensional conducting channels that form along the edges of a two-dimensional electron gas. Controlling their transmission through a gate-tunable constriction, also called…

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…

Strong interaction between electrons in two-dimensional systems in the presence of a high magnetic field gives rise to fractional quantum Hall states that host quasiparticles with fractional charge and fractional exchange statistics. Here,…

The introduction of 'twist' or relative rotation between two atomically thin van der Waals (vdW) membranes gives rise to periodic Moire potential, leading to a substantial altercation of the band structure of the planar assembly. While most…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Phanibhusan S Mahapatra , Bhaskar Ghawri , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Subroto Mukerjee , Arindam Ghosh

We consider the effect of electron-electron interactions on a voltage biased quantum point contact in the tunneling regime used as a detector of a nearby qubit. We model the leads of the quantum point contact as Luttinger liquids,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 Gleb Skorobagatko , Anton Bruch , Silvia Viola Kusminskiy , Alessandro Romito

We argue that moir\'e bilayer graphene at charge neutrality hosts a continuous semimetal-to-insulator quantum phase transition that can be accessed experimentally by tuning the twist angle between the two layers. For small twist angles near…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Jan Biedermann , Lukas Janssen

The recent discovery of fractional quantum Hall states in graphene raises the question of whether the physics of graphene and its bilayer offers any advantages over GaAs-based materials in exploring strongly-correlated states of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-26 Z. Papic , R. Thomale , D. A. Abanin

Observing the individual building blocks of matter is one of the primary goals of microscopy. The invention of the scanning tunneling microscope [1] revolutionized experimental surface science in that atomic-scale features on a solid-state…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-08-04 Jannik C. Meyer , C. O. Girit , M. F. Crommie , A. Zettl

Stacking and twisting two dimensional materials has garnered enormous attention across the condensed matter and the nanophotonic communities. The surge of interest stems from the emergence of novel photophysical phenomena that arise due to…

Electron interferometry with quantum Hall edge channels holds promise for probing and harnessing exotic exchange statistics of non-Abelian anyons. In semiconductor heterostructures, however, quantum Hall interferometry has proven…

We present a device architecture of hybrid-edge and dual-gated quantum point contact. We demonstrate improved electrostatic control over the separation, position, and coupling of each broken-symmetry compressible strip in graphene. Via…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Wei Ren , Xi Zhang , Jaden Ma , Xihe Han , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ke Wang

We describe a tunneling spectroscopy technique in a double bilayer graphene heterostructure where momentum-conserving tunneling between different energy bands serves as an energy filter for the tunneling carriers, and allows a measurement…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-13 Nitin Prasad , G. William Burg , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Leonard F. Register , Emanuel Tutuc
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