Contrasting twisted bilayer graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides for fractional Chern insulators: An emergent gauge picture

H Li, Y Su, YB Kim, HY Kee, K Sun, SZ Lin - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
The recent experimental discovery of the zero-field fractional Chern insulator (FCI) in twisted
MoTe 2 moiré superlattices has sparked immense interest in this exotic topological quantum …

Fine structure of flat bands in a chiral model of magic angles

S Becker, T Humbert, M Zworski - Annales Henri Poincaré, 2024 - Springer
We analyse symmetries of Bloch eigenfunctions at magic angles for the Tarnopolsky–
Kruchkov–Vishwanath chiral model of the twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) following the …

Dirac points for twisted bilayer graphene with in-plane magnetic field

S Becker, M Zworski - Journal of Spectral Theory, 2024 - ems.press
We study Dirac points of the chiral model of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) with constant in-
plane magnetic field. The striking feature of the chiral model is the presence of perfectly flat …

Chiral limit of twisted trilayer graphene

S Becker, T Humbert, J Wittsten, M Yang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2308.10859, 2023 - arxiv.org
We initiate the mathematical study of the Bistritzer-MacDonald Hamiltonian for twisted
trilayer graphene in the chiral limit (and beyond). We develop a spectral theoretic approach …

Exact ground state of interacting electrons in magic angle graphene

S Becker, L Lin, KD Stubbs - arxiv preprint arxiv:2312.15314, 2023 - arxiv.org
One of the most remarkable theoretical findings in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene
(TBG) is the emergence of ferromagnetic Slater determinants as exact ground states for the …

Mathematical results on the chiral models of twisted bilayer graphene (with an appendix by Mengxuan Yang and Zhongkai Tao)

M Zworski - Journal of Spectral Theory, 2024 - ems.press
The study of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) is a hot topic in condensed matter physics with
special focus on magic angles of twisting at which TBG acquires unusual properties …

Semiclassical analysis of two-scale electronic Hamiltonians for twisted bilayer graphene

E Cancès, L Meng - arxiv preprint arxiv:2311.14011, 2023 - arxiv.org
This paper investigates the mathematical properties of independent-electron models for
twisted bilayer graphene by examining the density-of-states of corresponding single-particle …

Magic angle (in) stability and mobility edges in disordered Chern insulators

S Becker, I Oltman, M Vogel - arxiv preprint arxiv:2309.02701, 2023 - arxiv.org
Why do experiments only exhibit one magic angle if the chiral limit of the Bistritzer-
MacDonald Hamiltonian suggest a plethora of them?-In this article, we investigate the …

Spectral theory of twisted bilayer graphene in a magnetic field

S Becker, X Zhu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2401.02250, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this article we study the Bistritzer-MacDonald (BM) model with external magnetic field. We
study the spectral properties of the Hamiltonian in an external magnetic field with a particular …

From the chiral model of TBG to the Bistritzer–MacDonald model

S Becker, M Zworski - Journal of Mathematical Physics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We analyze the splitting of exact flat bands in the chiral model of the twisted bilayer
graphene (TBG) when the AA′/BB′ coupling of the full Bistritzer–MacDonald model is …