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 …

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 …

Orbital magnetic states in moiré graphene systems

J Liu, X Dai - Nature Reviews Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Moiré graphene systems have attracted considerable attention in the past 3 years because
they exhibit exotic phenomena including correlated insulating states, unconventional …

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 …

Moiré quantum chemistry: charge transfer in transition metal dichalcogenide superlattices

Y Zhang, NFQ Yuan, L Fu - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayers have recently emerged as a robust and
tunable moiré system for studying and designing correlated electron physics. In this Rapid …

Nature of the correlated insulator states in twisted bilayer graphene

M **e, AH MacDonald - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
We use self-consistent Hartree-Fock calculations performed in the full π-band Hilbert space
to assess the nature of the recently discovered correlated insulator states in magic-angle …

Failure of Nielsen-Ninomiya theorem and fragile topology in two-dimensional systems with space-time inversion symmetry: application to twisted bilayer graphene at …

J Ahn, S Park, BJ Yang - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
We show that the Wannier obstruction and the fragile topology of the nearly flat bands in
twisted bilayer graphene at magic angle are manifestations of the nontrivial topology of two …

Band structure of twisted bilayer graphene: Emergent symmetries, commensurate approximants, and Wannier obstructions

L Zou, HC Po, A Vishwanath, T Senthil - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
A remarkable feature of the band structure of bilayer graphene at small twist angle is the
appearance of isolated bands near neutrality, whose bandwidth can be reduced at certain …

Pseudo Landau level representation of twisted bilayer graphene: Band topology and implications on the correlated insulating phase

J Liu, J Liu, X Dai - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
We propose that the electronic structure of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) can be
understood as Dirac fermions coupled with opposite pseudomagnetic fields generated by …

Electrostatic effects, band distortions, and superconductivity in twisted graphene bilayers

F Guinea, NR Walet - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Bilayer graphene twisted by a small angle shows a significant charge modulation away from
neutrality, as the charge in the narrow bands near the Dirac point is mostly localized in a …