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In twisted bilayer graphene, a unified understanding of the mechanisms governing temperature-dependent electronic spectra and thermodynamic properties remains controversial despite extensive theoretical efforts. Here, we present a…

We investigate the electronic structure of a twisted multilayer graphene system forming a moir\'e pattern. We consider small twist angles separating the graphene sheets and develop a low-energy theory to describe the coupling of Dirac Bloch…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Christophe Mora , Nicolas Regnault , B. Andrei Bernevig

Magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene (MATTG) has emerged as a novel moir\'e material that exhibits both strong electronic correlations and unconventional superconductivity. However, spectroscopic studies of its electronic properties are…

Thanks to the recent discovery on the magic-angle bilayer graphene, twistronics is quickly becom11 ing a burgeoning field in condensed matter physics. This letter expands the realm of twistronics to acoustics by introducing twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Yuanchen Deng , Mourad Oudich , Nikhil JRK Gerard , Jun Ji , Minghui Lu , Yun Jing

We study the electronic and topological properties of fully relaxed twisted bilayer (TBG) and double bilayer (TDBG) graphene under perpendicular pressure. An approach has been proposed to obtain the equilibrium in-plane structural…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-20 Xianqing Lin , Haotian Zhu , Jun Ni

Twisted bilayer graphene displays many fascinating properties that can be tuned by varying the relative angle (also called twist angle) between its monolayers. As a remarkable feature, both the electronic flat bands and the corresponding…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-06 V. Hung Nguyen , Trinh X. Hoang , J. -C. Charlier

Moir\'e patterns formed by stacking atomically-thin van der Waals crystals with a relative twist angle can give rise to dramatic new physical properties. The study of moir\'e materials has so far been limited to structures comprising no…

Using the self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation, we study the compressibility instability of the interacting electrons in bilayer graphene. The chemical potential and the compressibility of the electrons can be significantly altered by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-01-11 Xin-Zhong Yan , C. S. Ting

We analyze a description of twisted graphene bilayers, that incorporates deformation of the layers due to the nature modern interlayer potentials, and a modification of the hopping parameters between layers in the light of the classic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-29 Francisco Guinea , Niels R. Walet

Moir\'e materials represent strongly interacting electron systems bridging topological and correlated physics. Despite significant advances, decoding wavefunction properties underlying the quantum geometry remains challenging. Here, we…

We consider magnetic breakdown in twisted bilayer graphene where electrons may hop between semiclassical $k$-space trajectories in different layers. These trajectories within a doubled Brillouin zone constitute a network in which an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-11 Chi-Ken Lu , H. A. Fertig

The interplay between localized magnetic moments and itinerant electrons gives rise to exotic quantum states in condensed matter systems. Two-dimensional moire superlattices offer a powerful platform for engineering heavy fermion states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-17 Le Zhang , Wenqiang Zhou , Xinjie Fang , Zhen Zhan , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Yi-feng Yang , Shuigang Xu

Moir\'e materials host a wealth of intertwined correlated and topological states of matter, all arising from flat electronic bands with nontrivial quantum geometry. A prominent example is the family of alternating-twist magic-angle graphene…

We demonstrate that there exists a continuum Hamiltonian $H(\bf{r},\bf{p})$ that is formally the operator equivalent of the general tight-binding method, inheriting the associativity and Hermiticity of the latter operator. This provides a…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-01-16 F. Rost , R. Gupta , M. Fleischmann , D. Weckbecker , N. Ray , J. Olivares , M. Vogl , S. Sharma , O. Pankratov , S. Shallcross

The generalized tight-binding model is developed to investigate the magneto-electronic properties in twisted bilayer graphene system. All the interlayer and intralayer atomic interactions are included in the Moire superlattice. The twisted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-23 Chiun-Yan Lin , Ming-Fa Lin

We derive a simple formula for the real-space chirality of twisted bilayer graphene that can be related to the cross-product of its sheet currents. This quantity shows well-defined plateaus for the first remote band as function of the gate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 T. Stauber , J. González , G. Gómez-Santos

The coexistence of superconducting and correlated insulating states in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene prompts fascinating questions about the relationship of these orders. Independent control of the microscopic mechanisms governing…

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 investigate how anisotropic strain reorganizes commensurate moir\'e superlattices and electronic structure in twisted bilayer graphene across a finite range of twist angles. Motivated by experiments demonstrating robust magic angle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Ayan Mondal , Bheema Lingam Chittari

We implement a self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation based on a microscopic model in real space, which allows us to consider the interplay between the Hubbard and the extended Coulomb interaction in twisted bilayer graphene at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 J. Gonzalez , T. Stauber