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Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) hosts a rich landscape of electronic phases arising from the interplay between strong electron-electron interactions and nontrivial band topology. While the flat bands near zero energy are central to many…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Leonardo A. Navarro-Labastida , Pierre A. Pantaleon , Francisco Guinea , Gerardo G. Naumis

We perform an extensive exact diagonalization study of interaction driven insulators in spin- and valley-polarized moir\'{e} flat bands of twisted bilayer graphene aligned with its hexagonal boron nitride substrate. In addition to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-05 Patrick Wilhelm , Thomas C. Lang , Andreas M. Läuchli

Symmetry breaking is an effective tool for tuning the transport and topological properties of 2D layered materials. Among these materials, twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) has emerged as a promising platform for new physics, characterized by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 Cunyuan Jiang , Matteo Baggioli , Qing-Dong Jiang

Topological aspects of electron wavefunction play a crucial role in determining the physical properties of materials. Berry curvature and Chern number are used to define the topological structure of electronic bands. While Berry curvature…

Moir\'e superlattices engineer band properties and enable observation of fractal energy spectra of Hofstadter butterfly. Recently, correlated-electron physics hosted by flat bands in small-angle moir\'e systems has been at the foreground.…

Rhombohedral multilayer graphene, with its flat electronic bands and concentrated Berry curvature, is a promising material for the realization of correlated topological phases of matter. When aligned to an adjacent hexagonal boron nitride…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Samuel H. Aronson , Tonghang Han , Zhengguang Lu , Yuxuan Yao , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Long Ju , Raymond C. Ashoori

We present a theoretical investigation of the emergence of chiral topological superconductivity in small-angle twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) and twisted double bilayer graphene (tDBLG). Using the low-energy continuum model and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Kamalesh Bera , Tanay Nag , Arijit Saha

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MA-TBG) exhibits intriguing quantum phase transitions triggered by enhanced electron-electron interactions when its flat-bands are partially filled. However, the phases themselves and their connection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 Shuang Wu , Zhenyuan Zhang , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , Eva Y. Andrei

Twisted double bilayer graphene (tDBG) has emerged as an especially rich platform for studying strongly correlated and topological states of matter. The material features moir\'e bands that can be continuously deformed by both perpendicular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Minhao He , Jiaqi Cai , Ya-Hui Zhang , Yang Liu , Yuhao Li , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , David H. Cobden , Matthew Yankowitz , Xiaodong Xu

Utilizing the established Bistritzer-MacDonald model for twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG), we theoretically investigate the non-Hermitian (NH) topological properties of this in the presence of non-reciprocal (NR) hopping on both layers and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Kamalesh Bera , Debasish Mondal , Arijit Saha , Debashree Chowdhury

Interactions among electrons and the topology of their energy bands can create novel quantum phases of matter. Most topological electronic phases appear in systems with weak electron-electron interactions. The instances where topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-25 Kevin P. Nuckolls , Myungchul Oh , Dillon Wong , Biao Lian , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , B. Andrei Bernevig , Ali Yazdani

In this paper a systematic examination of graphene/hexagonal boron nitride (g/hBN) bilayers is presented, through a recently developed two-dimensional phase field crystal model that incorporates out-of-plane deformations. The system…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-09 K. R. Elder , Zhi-Feng Huang , T. Ala-Nissila

Rhombohedral $N = 3$ trilayer graphene on hexagonal boron nitride (TLG/BN) hosts gate-tunable, valley-contrasting, nearly flat topological bands that can trigger spontaneous quantum Hall phases under appropriate conditions of the valley and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 David Andres Galeano Gonzalez , Bheema Lingam Chittari , Youngju Park , Jin-Hua Sun , Jeil Jung

The topological structure of the wavefunctions of particles in periodic potentials is characterized by the Berry curvature $\Omega_{kn}$ whose integral on the Brillouin zone is a topological invariant known as the Chern number. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-21 Lucila Peralta Gavensky , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

When one of the graphene layers of Magic Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene is nearly aligned with its hexagonal boron nitride substrate (a configuration dubbed TBG/hBN), the active electronic bands are nearly flat, and have a Chern number…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-25 Cécile Repellin , T. Senthil

The emergence of controlled, two-dimensional moir\'e materials has uncovered a new platform for investigating topological physics. Twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG) has been predicted to host a topologically non-trivial gapped phase…

Twisted van der Waals heterostructures with flat electronic bands have recently emerged as a platform for realizing correlated and topological states with an extraordinary degree of control and tunability. In graphene-based moir\'e…

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

Moir\'e superlattices based on rhombohedral multilayer graphene have emerged as a highly tunable platform for engineering correlated topological phases. Here, we systematically investigate the transport properties of the hole-doped side in…

We study the collective excitation modes of the Chern insulator states in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene aligned with hexagonal boron nitride (TBG/BN) at odd integer fillings ($\nu$) of the flat bands. For the $1 \times 1$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 Xianqing Lin , Quan Zhou , Cheng Li , Jun Ni
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