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 …

Electronic-structure methods for twisted moiré layers

S Carr, S Fang, E Kaxiras - Nature Reviews Materials, 2020 - nature.com
When single layers of 2D materials are stacked on top of one another with a small twist in
orientation, the resulting structure often involves incommensurate moiré patterns. In these …

Cascade of electronic transitions in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

D Wong, KP Nuckolls, M Oh, B Lian, Y **e, S Jeon… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene exhibits a variety of electronic states, including
correlated insulators,–, superconductors,–and topological phases,,. Understanding the …

Correlated states in twisted double bilayer graphene

C Shen, Y Chu, QS Wu, N Li, S Wang, Y Zhao, J Tang… - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
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 …

Symmetry breaking in twisted double bilayer graphene

M He, Y Li, J Cai, Y Liu, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
The flat bands that appear in some twisted van der Waals heterostructures provide a setting
in which strong interactions between electrons lead to a variety of correlated …

Charged skyrmions and topological origin of superconductivity in magic-angle graphene

E Khalaf, S Chatterjee, N Bultinck, MP Zaletel… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Topological solitons, a class of stable nonlinear excitations, appear in diverse domains as in
the Skyrme model of nuclear forces. Here, we argue that similar excitations play an …

Nematic topological semimetal and insulator in magic-angle bilayer graphene at charge neutrality

S Liu, E Khalaf, JY Lee, A Vishwanath - Physical Review Research, 2021 - APS
We report on a fully self-consistent Hartree-Fock calculation of interaction effects on the
moiré flat bands of twisted bilayer graphene, assuming that valley U (1) symmetry is …

Non-Abelian Dirac node braiding and near-degeneracy of correlated phases at odd integer filling in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

J Kang, O Vafek - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We use the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) to study the correlated electron
states favored by the Coulomb interaction projected onto the narrow bands of twisted bilayer …

Quantum valley hall effect, orbital magnetism, and anomalous hall effect in twisted multilayer graphene systems

J Liu, Z Ma, J Gao, X Dai - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
We study the electronic structures and topological properties of (M+ N)-layer twisted
graphene systems. We consider the generic situation that N-layer graphene is placed on top …

Moiré flat bands in twisted double bilayer graphene

F Haddadi, QS Wu, AJ Kruchkov, OV Yazyev - Nano letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
We investigate twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG), a four-layer system composed of
two AB-stacked graphene bilayers rotated with respect to each other by a small angle. Our …