English
Related papers

Related papers: Commensurate moir\'e superlattices in anisotropica…

200 papers

A variety of exotic quantum phases of matter have been created by Van der Waals heterostructures. Moreover, these twisted heterostructures provide a feasible way of braiding correlation effect and nontrivial band topology together. Here,…

Small-twist-angle bilayer graphene supports strongly correlated insulating states and superconductivity. Twisted few-layer graphene systems are likely to open up new directions for strong correlation physics in moir\'e superlattices. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-30 Xiao Li , Fengcheng Wu , Allan H. MacDonald

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…

We study the effect of electron-acoustic phonon interactions in twisted bilayer graphene on resistivity in the high-temperature transport and superconductivity in the low-temperature phase diagram. We theoretically show that twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Fengcheng Wu , Euyheon Hwang , Sankar Das Sarma

Bilayer graphene, forming moir\'e superlattices, possesses distinct electronic and optical properties derived from the hybridization of energy band and the emergence of van Hove singularities depending on its twist angle. Extensive research…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Ming Liu , Ryosuke Senga , Masanori Koshino , Yung-Chang Lin , Kazu Suenaga

Interference of double moire patterns of graphene (G) encapsulated by hexagonal boron nitride (BN) can alter the electronic structure features near the primary/secondary Dirac points and the electron-hole symmetry introduced by a single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-03 Nicolas Leconte , Jeil Jung

It has been shown that the Kohn--Luttinger superconductivity mechanism interplaying with other types of ordering can be implemented in systems with a hexagonal lattice. A number of unusual properties of such systems in the normal phase have…

The recently demonstrated unconventional superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) opens the possibility for interesting applications of two-dimensional layers that involve correlated electron states. Here we explore the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-30 Stephen Carr , Shiang Fang , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Efthimios Kaxiras

Moir\'e superlattices in van der Waals materials have revolutionized the study of electronic and excitonic systems by creating periodic electrostatic potentials. Extending this concept to magnetic materials promises new pathways in merging…

Due to its potential connection with nematicity, electronic anisotropy has been the subject of intense research effort on a wide variety of material platforms. The emergence of spatial anisotropy not only offers a characterization of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-03 Naiyuan J. Zhang , Yibang Wang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Oskar Vafek , J. I. A. Li

The folding of monolayer graphene leads to new layered systems, termed twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), generally displaying a certain interlayer rotation away from crystallographic alignment. We here present an atomic force microscopy study…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-30 Johannes C. Rode , Christopher Belke , Hennrik Schmidt , Rolf J. Haug

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), with rotational misalignment close to 1.1$^\circ$, features isolated flat electronic bands that host a rich phase diagram of correlated insulating, superconducting, ferromagnetic, and topological…

The long wavelength moir\'e superlattices in twisted 2D structures have emerged as a highly tunable platform for strongly correlated electron physics. We study the moir\'e bands in twisted transition metal dichalcogenide homobilayers,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-19 Trithep Devakul , Valentin Crépel , Yang Zhang , Liang Fu

Atomic modulations of two-dimensional materials using scanning tunneling microscope (STM) tip-induced forces modifies their mechanical and electrical properties. In situ topographic and spectroscopic probing through electrical tunneling has…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-02 N. Sarkar , P. R. Bandaru , R. C. Dynes

Structural engineering of van der Waals heterostructures via stacking and twisting has recently been used to create moir\'e superlattices, enabling the realization of new optical and electronic properties in solid-state systems. In…

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

Stripe phases, in which the rotational symmetry of charge density is spontaneously broken, occur in many strongly correlated systems with competing interactions. One representative example is the copper-oxide superconductors, where stripe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Chenhao Jin , Zui Tao , Tingxin Li , Yang Xu , Yanhao Tang , Jiacheng Zhu , Song Liu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , James C. Hone , Liang Fu , Jie Shan , Kin Fai Mak

The observation of novel physical phenomena such as Hofstadter's butterfly, topological currents and unconventional superconductivity in graphene have been enabled by the replacement of SiO$_2$ with hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-18 Adolfo De Sanctis , Jake D. Mehew , Saad Alkhalifa , Freddie Withers , Monica F. Craciun , Saverio Russo

Twisted double bilayer graphene has recently emerged as an interesting moir\'e material that exhibits strong correlation phenomena that are tunable by an applied electric field. Here we study the atomic and electronic properties of three…

Moir\'e superlattices in stacked 2D crystals are powerful platforms for engineering correlated and topological quantum phases, with twisted graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) as prominent examples. Their angle-sensitive…