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We study the effect of twisting on bilayer graphene. The effect of lattice relaxation is included; we look at the electronic structure, piezo-electric charges and spontaneous polarisation. We show that the electronic structure without…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Niels R. Walet , Francisco Guinea

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

Controlling the electronic structure of two-dimensional materials using the combination of twist angle and electrostatic doping is an effective means to induce emergent phenomena. In bilayer graphene with an interlayer twist angle near the…

In our previous paper (Phys. Rev. B {\bf 89}, 165430 (2014)) we have found that in graphene, in distinction to the four occupied bands, which can be described by the simple tight-binding model (TBM) with four atomic orbitals per atom, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-26 E. Kogan , V. M. Silkin

We study the single- and many-particle properties of a two-leg ladder model threaded by a flux with the legs coupled by a spatially varying term. Although a priori unrelated to twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), the model is found to have…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-29 Yixuan Huang , Pavan Hosur , Hridis K. Pal

Magic angles in the chiral model of twisted bilayer graphene are parameters for which the chiral version of the Bistritzer--MacDonald Hamiltonian exhibits a flat band at energy zero. We compute the sums over powers of (complex) magic angles…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-06-02 Simon Becker , Tristan Humbert , Maciej Zworski

The rich phenomenology of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) near the magic angle is believed to arise from electron correlations in topological flat bands. An unbiased approach to this problem is highly desirable, but also particularly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-28 Johannes S. Hofmann , Eslam Khalaf , Ashvin Vishwanath , Erez Berg , Jong Yeon Lee

Inter-twisted bilayers of two-dimensional (2D) materials can host low-energy flat bands, which offer opportunity to investigate many intriguing physics associated with strong electron correlations. In the existing systems, ultra-flat bands…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 Shengdan Tao , Xuanlin Zhang , Jiaojiao Zhu , Pimo He , Shengyuan A. Yang , Yunhao Lu , Su-Huai Wei

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) has been extensively explored both theoretically and experimentally as a suitable platform for a rich and tunable phase diagram that includes ferromagnetism, charge order, broken symmetries, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 Lauro B. Braz , George B. Martins , Luis G. G. V. Dias da Silva

We theoretically study the electronic structure of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene with disordered moir\'e patterns. By using an extended continuum model incorporating non-uniform lattice distortion, we find that the local density of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Naoto Nakatsuji , Mikito Koshino

We have studied how a generic bilayer kagome lattice behave upon layer rotation. We employed a Tight Binding model with one orbital per site and found (i) for low rotational angles, and at low energies, the same flat bands structure like in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-28 F. Crasto de Lima , R. H. Miwa , E. Suárez Morell

Using the method developed in the companion paper, we construct the effective continuum theories for two different microscopic tight binding models of the twisted bilayer graphene at the twist angle of $1.05^\circ$, one Slater-Koster based…

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

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

We investigate the bandwidth compression due to out of plane pressure of the moire flatbands near charge neutrality in twisted bilayer graphene for a continuous range of small rotation angles of up to $\sim2.5^{\circ}$. The flatband…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Bheema Lingam Chittari , Nicolas Leconte , Srivani Javvaji , Jeil Jung

Although much progress has been made on the physics of magic angle twisted bilayer graphene at integer fillings, little attention has been given to fractional fillings. Here we show that the three-peak structure of Wannier orbitals,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-31 Kevin Zhang , Yang Zhang , Liang Fu , Eun-Ah Kim

Flat bands - single-particle energy bands - in tight-binding networks have attracted attention due to the presence of macroscopic degeneracies and their extreme sensitivity to perturbations. This makes them natural candidates for emerging…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-27 Carlo Danieli , Alexei Andreanov , Daniel Leykam , Sergej Flach

Twisted graphene bilayers show a complex electronic structure, further modified by interaction effects. The main features can be obtained from effective models, which make use a few phenomenological parameters. We analyze the influence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-04 Niels R. Walet , Francisco Guinea

We present a multi-scale density functional theory (DFT) informed molecular dynamics and tight-binding (TB) approach to capture the interdependent atomic and electronic structures of twisted bilayer graphene. We calibrate the flat band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-17 Nicolas Leconte , Srivani Javvaji , Jiaqi An , Appalakondaiah Samudrala , Jeil Jung

This work put forward a comprehensive study of moire pattern in commensurate twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) to determine the connection of moire period with corresponding twist angle. Using the understanding of moire pattern, computational…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-14 Veer Pal , Ajay

Diverse emergent correlated electron phenomena have been observed in twisted graphene layers due to electronic interactions with the moir\'e superlattice potential. Many electronic structure predictions have been reported exploring this new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-29 J. E. Nunn , A. McEllistrim , A. Weston , A. Garcia-Ruiz , M. D. Watson , M. Mucha-Kruczynski , C. Cacho , R. Gorbachev , V. I. Fal'ko , N. R. Wilson
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