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Recent experiments on multilayer graphene materials have discovered a plethora of correlated phases, including ferromagnetism and superconductivity, in the absence of a moir\'{e} potential. These findings pose an intriguing question of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-14 Adarsh S. Patri , T. Senthil

When using hexagonal boron-nitride (hBN) as a substrate for graphene, the resulting moir\'e pattern creates secondary Dirac points. By encapsulating a multilayer graphene within aligned hBN sheets the controlled moir\'e stacking may offer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-14 Robin Smeyers , Lucian Covaci , Milorad V. Milošević

When monolayer graphene is crystallographically aligned to hexagonal boron nitride (BN), a moir\'e superlattice is formed, producing characteristic satellite Dirac peaks in the electronic band structure. Aligning a second BN layer to…

A periodic spatial modulation, as created by a moir\'e pattern, has been extensively studied with the view to engineer and tune the properties of graphene. Graphene encapsulated by hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) when slightly misaligned with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-31 M. Anđelković , S. P. Milovanović , L. Covaci , F. M. Peeters

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

We study the structural relaxation and electronic properties of a one-dimensional (1D) moir\'e system composed of a zigzag graphene nanoribbon (GNR) placed on a hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) substrate. Using an effective grid model derived…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Ryosuke Okumura , Naoto Nakatsuji , Takuto Kawakami , Mikito Koshino

The structural similarity between hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) and graphene nanoribbons allows for the formation of heterojunctions with small chain stress. The combination of the insulation nature of the former and the quasi-metallic…

A number of moir\'e graphene systems have nearly flat topological bands where electron motion is strongly correlated. Though microscopically these systems are only quasiperiodic, they can typically be treated as translation invariant to an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Dan Mao , T. Senthil

Stacking two atomic crystals with a twist between their crystal axes produces moir\'e potentials that modify the electronic properties. Here we show that double moir\'e potentials generated by superposing three atomic crystals create a new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-16 Xinyuan Lai , Guohong Li , Angela M. Coe , Jedediah H. Pixley , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Eva Y. Andrei

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

Twisted bilayer graphene aligned with hexagonal boron nitride (TBG/hBN) hosts rich topological and correlated quantum phases, such as (fractional) Chern insulators, whose character is dictated by the topology of the moir\'{e} flat band.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-01 Huiwen Wang , Wei Jiang

The recent discovery of robust quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect in rhombohedral multilayer graphene (RMG) aligned with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has established a highly versatile platform for correlated topological matter. This…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-16 Jiannan Hua , Jing Ding , W. Zhu , Shui-gang Xu

In orbital Chern insulators, the chemical potential acts as a tuning knob to reverse chirality in dissipationless edge currents, enabling electric-field control of magnetic order-key for future quantum electronics. Despite the rise of…

Nearly aligned graphene on hexagonal boron nitride (G/BN) can be accurately modeled by a Dirac Hamiltonian perturbed by smoothly varying moir\'e pattern pseudospin fields. Here, we present the moir\'e-band model of G/BN for arbitrary small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-06 Jeil Jung , Evan Laksono , Ashley M. DaSilva , Allan H. MacDonald , Marcin Mucha-Kruczyński , Shaffique Adam

All local electronic properties of graphene on a hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) substrate exhibit spatial moir\'e patterns related to lattice constant and orientation differences between shared triangular Bravais lattices. We apply a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Ashley M. DaSilva , Jeil Jung , Shaffique Adam , Allan H. MacDonald

In this Letter, we derive an effective theory of graphene on a hexagonal Boron Nitride (h-BN) substrate. We show that the h-BN substrate generically opens a spectral gap in graphene despite the lattice mismatch. The origin of that gap is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-12 M. Kindermann , Bruno Uchoa , D. L. Miller

The interaction between a graphene layer and a hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) substrate induces lateral displacements and strains in the graphene layer. The displacements lead to the appearance of commensurate regions and the existence of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-05 Pablo San-Jose , Ángel Gutiérrez , Mauricio Sturla , Francisco Guinea

We study the atomic and electronic structures of the commensurate double moir\'{e} superlattices in fully relaxed twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) nearly aligned with the hexagonal boron nitride (BN). The single-particle effective Hamiltonian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-31 Xianqing Lin , Jun Ni

By atomistic modeling of moir{\'e} patterns of graphene on a substrate with a small lattice mismatch, we find qualitatively different strain distributions for small and large misorientation angles, corresponding to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-16 M. M. van Wijk , A. Schuring , M. I. Katsnelson , A. Fasolino

Graphene-based moir\'{e} systems have attracted considerable interest in recent years as they display a remarkable variety of correlated phenomena. Besides insulating and superconducting phases in the vicinity of integer fillings of the…