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We analytically compute the scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) signatures of integer-filled correlated ground states of the magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) narrow bands. After experimentally validating the strong-coupling…

We revisit the global phase diagram of magic-angle twisted bilayer and [symmetric] trilayer graphene (MA-TBG/TSTG) in light of recent scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) measurements on these materials. These experiments both confirmed the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-17 Ziwei Wang , Glenn Wagner , Yves H. Kwan , Nick Bultinck , Steven H. Simon , S. A. Parameswaran

We study magic angle graphene in the presence of both strain and particle-hole symmetry breaking due to non-local inter-layer tunneling. We perform a self-consistent Hartree-Fock study that incorporates these effects alongside realistic…

The topological heavy fermion (THF) model of twisted bilayer graphene is a framework for treating its strongly interacting topological flat bands. In this work, we employ the THF model with heterostrain and particle-hole symmetry breaking…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-26 Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman , Dumitru Călugăru , Haoyu Hu , Jiabin Yu , Nicolas Regnault , Jian Kang , B. Andrei Bernevig , Oskar Vafek

When the two layers of a twisted moir\'e system are subject to different degrees of strain, the effect is amplified by the inverse twist angle, e.g., by a factor of 50 in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG). Samples of TBG typically…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-27 Tianle Wang , Daniel E. Parker , Tomohiro Soejima , Johannes Hauschild , Sajant Anand , Nick Bultinck , Michael P. Zaletel

In magic angle twisted bilayer graphene, electron-electron interactions play a central role resulting in correlated insulating states at certain integer fillings. Identifying the nature of these insulators is a central question and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-19 Nick Bultinck , Eslam Khalaf , Shang Liu , Shubhayu Chatterjee , Ashvin Vishwanath , Michael P. Zaletel

We argue that moir\'e bilayer graphene at charge neutrality hosts a continuous semimetal-to-insulator quantum phase transition that can be accessed experimentally by tuning the twist angle between the two layers. For small twist angles near…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Jan Biedermann , Lukas Janssen

The fascinating quantum many-body states in twisted bilayber graphene (TBG) at magic angle, due to the interplay of Coulomb interactions and the quantum metrics of flat bands, have been well understood both experimentally and theoretically.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-06 Cheng Huang , Nikolaos Parthenios , Maksim Ulybyshev , Xu Zhang , Fakher F. Assaad , Laura Classen , Zi Yang Meng

Moir\'{e} systems such as magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene have attracted significant attention due to their ability to host correlated phenomena including superconductivity and strongly correlated insulating states. By defining the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-08 Liangtao Peng , Giovanni Vignale , Shaffique Adam

We investigate the full doping and strain-dependent phase diagram of the normal state of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG). Using comprehensive Hartree-Fock calculations, we show that at temperatures where superconductivity is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-11 Glenn Wagner , Yves H. Kwan , Nick Bultinck , Steven H. Simon , S. A. Parameswaran

Recent scanning tunneling microscopy experiments [K.P. Nuckolls et al., arXiv:2303.00024] have revealed the ubiquity of Kekul\'e charge-density wave order in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene. Most samples are moderately strained and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-06 Yves H. Kwan , Glenn Wagner , Nick Bultinck , Steven H. Simon , Erez Berg , S. A. Parameswaran

We study the phase diagram of magic-angle twisted symmetric trilayer graphene in the presence of uniaxial heterostrain and interlayer displacement field. For experimentally reasonable strain, our mean-field analysis finds robust Kekul\'e…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-20 Ziwei Wang , Yves H. Kwan , Glenn Wagner , Nick Bultinck , Steven H. Simon , S. A. Parameswaran

While it has been one of the most important new physics discoveries in the last decade, the nature of superconductivity in the twisted graphene family remains an unsolved problem. Motivated by recent scanning tunneling experiments that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-19 Ke Wang , K. Levin

Magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) has become one of the prominent topics in Condensed Matter during the last few years, however, fully atomistic studies of the interacting physics are missing. In this work, we study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Miguel Sánchez Sánchez , Tobias Stauber

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene displays at different fillings of the four flat bands lying around the charge neutrality point a wealth of notable phases that include magnetic Chern insulators, whose magnetization is mostly of orbital…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-07 Andrea Blason , Michele Fabrizio

We develop a theory for quantum phases and quantum multicriticality in bilayer graphene in the presence of an explicit energy gap in the non-interacting spectrum by extending previous renormalization group (RG) analyses of electron-electron…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-18 Robert E. Throckmorton , S. Das Sarma

Correlated insulators are frequently observed in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene at even fillings of electrons or holes per moir\'e unit-cell. Whereas theory predicts these insulators to be intervalley coherent excitonic phases, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Gal Shavit , Kryštof Kolář , Christophe Mora , Felix von Oppen , Yuval Oreg

The interplay of twist and strain in bilayer graphene enables the formation of moir\'e patterns and narrow bands that host correlated and topological phases. While magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has been widely studied, strain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Federico Escudero , Dong Wang , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Shengjun Yuan , Francisco Guinea , Zhen Zhan

Motivated by the recently observed insulating states in twisted bilayer graphene, we study the nature of the correlated insulating phases of the twisted bilayer graphene at commensurate filling fractions. We use the continuum model and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-23 Yi Zhang , Kun Jiang , Ziqiang Wang , Fuchun Zhang

Electron-electron interactions play an important role in graphene and related systems and can induce exotic quantum states, especially in a stacked bilayer with a small twist angle. For bilayer graphene where the two layers are twisted by a…

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