Graphene bilayers with a twist

EY Andrei, AH MacDonald - Nature materials, 2020 - nature.com
Near a magic twist angle, bilayer graphene transforms from a weakly correlated Fermi liquid
to a strongly correlated two-dimensional electron system with properties that are …

Moiré heterostructures as a condensed-matter quantum simulator

DM Kennes, M Claassen, L **an, A Georges, AJ Millis… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Twisted van der Waals heterostructures have latterly received prominent attention for their
many remarkable experimental properties and the promise that they hold for realizing …

Tuning superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene

M Yankowitz, S Chen, H Polshyn, Y Zhang… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Materials with flat electronic bands often exhibit exotic quantum phenomena owing to strong
correlations. An isolated low-energy flat band can be induced in bilayer graphene by simply …

Emergent ferromagnetism near three-quarters filling in twisted bilayer graphene

AL Sharpe, EJ Fox, AW Barnard, J Finney, K Watanabe… - Science, 2019 - science.org
When two sheets of graphene are stacked at a small twist angle, the resulting flat
superlattice minibands are expected to strongly enhance electron-electron interactions …

Superconductivity and strong correlations in moiré flat bands

L Balents, CR Dean, DK Efetov, AF Young - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Strongly correlated systems can give rise to spectacular phenomenology, from high-
temperature superconductivity to the emergence of states of matter characterized by long …

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene as a topological heavy fermion problem

ZD Song, BA Bernevig - Physical review letters, 2022 - APS
Magic-angle (θ= 1.0 5°) twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) has shown two seemingly
contradictory characters: the localization and quantum-dot-like behavior in STM …

Charge order and broken rotational symmetry in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

Y Jiang, X Lai, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi, K Haule… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Bilayer graphene can be modified by rotating (twisting) one layer with respect to the other.
The interlayer twist gives rise to a moiré superlattice that affects the electronic motion and …

Origin of magic angles in twisted bilayer graphene

G Tarnopolsky, AJ Kruchkov, A Vishwanath - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) was recently shown to host superconductivity when tuned to
special “magic angles” at which isolated and relatively flat bands appear. However, until …

Spectroscopic signatures of many-body correlations in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

Y **e, B Lian, B Jäck, X Liu, CL Chiu, K Watanabe… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The discovery of superconducting and insulating states in magic-angle twisted bilayer
graphene (MATBG), has ignited considerable interest in understanding the nature of …

Evidence for Dirac flat band superconductivity enabled by quantum geometry

H Tian, X Gao, Y Zhang, S Che, T Xu, P Cheung… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
In a flat band superconductor, the charge carriers' group velocity v F is extremely slow.
Superconductivity therein is particularly intriguing, being related to the long-standing …