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 …

Electrical switching of magnetic order in an orbital Chern insulator

H Polshyn, J Zhu, MA Kumar, Y Zhang, F Yang… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Magnetism typically arises from the joint effect of Fermi statistics and repulsive Coulomb
interactions, which favours ground states with non-zero electron spin. As a result, controlling …

Electrically tunable correlated and topological states in twisted monolayer–bilayer graphene

S Chen, M He, YH Zhang, V Hsieh, Z Fei, K Watanabe… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Twisted van der Waals heterostructures with flat electronic bands have recently emerged as
a platform for realizing correlated and topological states with a high degree of control and …

Imaging orbital ferromagnetism in a moiré Chern insulator

CL Tschirhart, M Serlin, H Polshyn, A Shragai, Z **a… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Electrons in moiré flat band systems can spontaneously break time-reversal symmetry,
giving rise to a quantized anomalous Hall effect. In this study, we use a superconducting …

Valley magnetism, nematicity, and density wave orders in twisted bilayer graphene

DV Chichinadze, L Classen, AV Chubukov - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We analyze density wave and Pomeranchuk orders in twisted bilayer graphene. This
complements our earlier analysis of the pairing instabilities. We assume that near half filling …

Tunable orbital ferromagnetism at noninteger filling of a moiré superlattice

G Chen, AL Sharpe, EJ Fox, S Wang, B Lyu, L Jiang… - Nano …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The flat bands resulting from moiré superlattices exhibit fascinating correlated electron
phenomena such as correlated insulators,(Nature 2018, 556 (7699), 80–84),(Nature Physics …

Transport across twist angle domains in moiré graphene

B Padhi, A Tiwari, T Neupert, S Ryu - Physical Review Research, 2020 - APS
Many experiments in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) differ from each other in terms of the
details of their phase diagrams. Few controllable aspects aside, this discrepancy is largely …

Lattice collective modes from a continuum model of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

A Kumar, M **e, AH MacDonald - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We show that the insulating states of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene support a series
of collective modes corresponding to local particle-hole excitations on triangular lattice sites …

Current-driven magnetization reversal in orbital chern insulators

C Huang, N Wei, AH MacDonald - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Graphene multilayers with flat moiré minibands can exhibit the quantized anomalous Hall
effect due to the combined influence of spontaneous valley polarization and topologically …

Current-induced reversal of anomalous Hall conductance in twisted bilayer graphene

Y Su, SZ Lin - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
It is observed experimentally that the sign of the Hall resistance can be flipped by a dc
electric current in the twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) at 3/4 filling of the fourfold degenerate …