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The dominance of Coulomb interactions over kinetic energy of electrons in narrow, non-trivial moir\'{e} bands of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) gives rise to a variety of correlated phases such as correlated insulators,…

Since the discovery of the fascinating properties in magic-angle graphene, the exploration of moir\'e systems in other two-dimensional materials has garnered significant attention and given rise to a field known as 'moir\'e physics'. Within…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Zhao Gong , Qing-Qing Zhang , Hui-Ying Mu , Xing-Tao An , Jian-Jun Liu

Fabrication of ordered structures at the nanoscale limit poses a cornerstone challenge for modern technologies. In this work we show how naturally occurring moir\'e patterns in Ir(111)-supported graphene template the formation of 2D ordered…

Electron collimation via a graphene pn-junction allows electrostatic control of ballistic electron trajectories akin to that of an optical circuit. Similar manipulation of novel correlated electronic phases in twisted-bilayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 Wei Ren , Xi Zhang , Ziyan Zhu , Moosa Khan , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Efthimios Kaxiras , Mitchell Luskin , Ke Wang

Superconducting hybrid junctions are revealing a variety of novel effects. Some of them are due to the special layout of these devices, which often use a coplanar configuration with relatively large barrier channels and the possibility of…

Moir\'e materials offer a versatile platform for engineering excitons with unprecedented control, promising next-generation optoelectronic applications. While continuum models are widely used to study moir\'e excitons due to their…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-08 Indrajit Maity , Johannes Lischner , Arash A. Mostofi , Ángel Rubio

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…

Graphene superlattices have recently been attracting growing interest as an emergent class of quantum metamaterials. In this paper, we report the observation of nonlocal transport in bilayer graphene (BLG) superlattices encapsulated between…

The realization of fractional Chern insulators opens up the possibility of exploring fractionally charged excitations and anyonic statistics in the absence of a magnetic field. One of the central questions is whether lattice-based systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Zexu Li , Wenxuan Wang , Fajie Wang , Zaizhe Zhang , Qiu Yang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , X. C. Xie , Jie Wang , Kaihui Liu , Zhida Song , Xiaobo Lu

We investigate low energy excitons in rhombohedral pentalayer graphene encapsulated by hexagonal boron nitride (hBN/R5G/hBN), focusing on the regime at the experimental twist angle $\theta = 0.77^\circ$ and with an applied electric field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Henry Davenport , Frank Schindler , Johannes Knolle

Graphene enables precise carrier-density control via gating, making it an ideal platform for studying electronic interactions. However, sample inhomogeneities often limit access to the low-density regimes where these interactions dominate.…

Moir\'e-pattern based potential engineering has become an important way to explore exotic physics in a variety of two-dimensional condensed matter systems. While these potentials have induced correlated phenomena in almost all commonly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-19 Mohammed M. Al Ezzi , Junxiong Hu , Ariando , Francisco Guinea , Shaffique Adam

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect is sometimes observed in twisted bilayer graphene (tBG) when it is nearly aligned with an encapsulating hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) layer. We propose that the appearance or absence of the QAH effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 Jingtian Shi , Jihang Zhu , A. H. MacDonald

We study quantum phase transitions in graphene superlattices in external magnetic fields, where a framework is presented to classify multiflavor Dirac fermion critical points describing hopping tuned topological phase transitions of integer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-11 Jian Wang , Luiz H. Santos

At a certain "magic" relative twist angle of two graphene sheets it remains a challenge to obtain a detailed description of the proliferation of correlated topological electronic phases and their filling-dependence. We perform a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-10 Clara N. Breiø , Brian M. Andersen

The moir\'e superlattice formed by ABC stacked trilayer graphene aligned with a hexagonal boron nitride substrate (TG/h-BN) provides an interesting system where both the bandwidth and the topology can be tuned by an applied perpendicular…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-05 Ya-Hui Zhang , 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

The graphene/MoS2 heterojunction formed by joining the two components laterally in a single plane promises to exhibit a low-resistance contact according to the Schottky-Mott rule. Here we provide an atomic-scale description of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-11 Wei Chen , Yuan Yang , Zhenyu Zhang , Efthimios Kaxiras

While transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) based moire materials have been shown to host various correlated electronic phenomena, topological states have not been experimentally observed until now. In this work, using first principles…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-04 Yang Zhang , Trithep Devakul , Liang Fu

Graphene -a recently discovered one-atom-thick layer of graphite- constitutes a new model system in condensed matter physics, because it is the first material in which charge carriers behave as massless chiral relativistic particles. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hubert B. Heersche , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Jeroen B. Oostinga , Lieven M. K. Vandersypen , Alberto F. Morpurgo