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The structural and electronic properties of twisted bilayer graphene are investigated from first principles and tight binding approach as a function of the twist angle (ranging from the first "magic" angle $\theta=1.08^\circ$ to…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-28 G. Cantele , D. Alfè , F. Conte , V. Cataudella , D. Ninno , P. Lucignano

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…

Close to a magical angle, twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) systems exhibit isolated flat electronic bands and, accordingly, strong electron localization. TBLGs have hence been ideal platforms to explore superconductivity, correlated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-28 V. Hung Nguyen , D. Paszko , M. Lamparski , B. Van Troeye , V. Meunier , J. -C. Charlier

Twisted 2D layered materials have garnered a lot of attention recently as a class of 2D materials whose interlayer interactions and electronic properties are dictated by the relative rotation / twist angle between the adjacent layers. In…

We present a theoretical study of the intrinsic plasmonic properties of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) as a function of the twist angle $\theta$ (and other microscopic parameters such as temperature and filling factor). Our calculations,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 Lorenzo Cavicchi , Iacopo Torre , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Frank H. L. Koppens , Marco Polini

A basis is derived from elastic plate theory that quantifies equilibrium and dynamic deformation and electron diffraction patterns of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG). The basis is derived by solving in-plane and out-of-plane normal modes of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-29 Moon-ki Choi , Suk Hyun Sung , Robert Hovden , Ellad B. Tadmor

Twisted bilayer graphene exhibits isolated, relatively flat electronic bands near charge neutrality when the interlayer rotation is tuned to specific magic angles. These small misalignments, typically below 1.1{\deg}, result in long-period…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Antonio Palamara , Michele Pisarra , Antonello Sindona

We investigate the band structure of twisted monolayer-bilayer graphene (tMBG), or twisted graphene on bilayer graphene (tGBG), as a function of twist angles and perpendicular electric fields in search of optimum conditions for achieving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Youngju Park , Bheema Lingam Chittari , Jeil Jung

We study the atomic structure of twisted bilayer graphene, with very small mismatch angles ($\theta \sim 0.28^0$), a topic of intense recent interest. We use simulations, in which we combine a recently presented semi-empirical potential for…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-15 Sandeep K. Jain , Vladimir Juricic , Gerard T. Barkema

Twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) has emerged as a promising platform to explore exotic electronic phases. However, the formation of moir\'e patterns in tBLG has thus far been confined to the introduction of twist angles between the layers.…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-10 Gabriel R. Schleder , Michele Pizzochero , Efthimios Kaxiras

We theoretically study the lattice relaxation in the twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) and its effect on the electronic band structure. We develop an effective continuum theory to describe the lattice relaxation in general TBGs and obtain the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-06 Nguyen N. T. Nam , Mikito Koshino

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

The experimental control over the twist angle in twisted bilayer graphene has not been reported and its realistic structure is most likely incommensurate. In this paper, we develop a tight-binding virtual crystal approximation theory to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 D. Ghader , D. Szczȩśniak , A. Khater

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

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

We report a systematic plasmonic study of twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) - two graphene layers stacked with a twist angle. Through real-space nanoimaging of TBLG single crystals with a wide distribution of twist angles, we find that TBLG…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-30 Fengrui Hu , Suprem R Das , Yilong Luan , T. -F. Chung , Yong P. Chen , Zhe Fei

Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures ---formed by stacking or growing two-dimensional (2D) crystals on top of each other--- have emerged as a new promising route to tailor and engineer the properties of 2D materials. Twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 G. Catarina , B. Amorim , Eduardo V. Castro , J. M. Viana Parente Lopes , N. M. R. Peres

In twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) a moir\'e pattern forms that introduces a new length scale to the material. At the 'magic' twist angle of 1.1{\deg}, this causes a flat band to form, yielding emergent properties such as correlated…

An accurate description of the low-energy electronic bands in twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) is of great interest due to their relation to correlated electron phases, such as superconductivity and Mott-insulator behavior at half-filling.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-17 Daniel Bennett , Daniel T. Larson , Louis Sharma , Stephen Carr , Efthimios Kaxiras

We present a theoretical study of the local optical conductivity, plasmon spectra, and thermoelectric properties of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) at different filling factors and twist angles $\theta$. Our calculations are based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-04 Pietro Novelli , Iacopo Torre , Frank H. L. Koppens , Fabio Taddei , Marco Polini