Emerging flat bands in large-angle twisted bi-layer graphene under pressures

Nanoscale ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liangbing Ge ◽  
Ni Kun ◽  
Xiaojun Wu ◽  
Zhengping Fu ◽  
Yalin Lu ◽  
...  

Recent experiments on magic-angle twisted bi-layer graphene have attracted an intensive attention due to exotic properties such as unconventional superconductivity and correlated insulation. These phenomena were often found at a...

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jong Yeon Lee ◽  
Eslam Khalaf ◽  
Shang Liu ◽  
Xiaomeng Liu ◽  
Zeyu Hao ◽  
...  

AbstractTwo graphene monolayers twisted by a small magic angle exhibit nearly flat bands, leading to correlated electronic states. Here we study a related but different system with reduced symmetry - twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG), consisting of two Bernal stacked bilayer graphenes, twisted with respect to one another. Unlike the monolayer case, we show that isolated flat bands only appear on application of a vertical displacement field. We construct a phase diagram as a function of twist angle and displacement field, incorporating interactions via a Hartree-Fock approximation. At half-filling, ferromagnetic insulators are stabilized with valley Chern number $${C}_{{\rm{v}}}=\pm 2$$Cv=±2. Upon doping, ferromagnetic fluctuations are argued to lead to spin-triplet superconductivity from pairing between opposite valleys. We highlight a novel orbital effect arising from in-plane fields plays an important role in interpreting experiments. Combined with recent experimental findings, our results establish TDBG as a tunable platform to realize rare phases in conventional solids.


2020 ◽  
Vol 125 (21) ◽  
Author(s):  
María Rosendo López ◽  
Fernando Peñaranda ◽  
Johan Christensen ◽  
Pablo San-Jose

Nature ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 556 (7699) ◽  
pp. 43-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan Cao ◽  
Valla Fatemi ◽  
Shiang Fang ◽  
Kenji Watanabe ◽  
Takashi Taniguchi ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Wenxiang Liu ◽  
Yongqiang Wu ◽  
Yang Hong ◽  
Bo Hou ◽  
Jingchao Zhang ◽  
...  

It was recently reported that a magic angle, i.e. 1.1º, exists in twisted bilayer graphene which could lead to intrinsic unconventional superconductivity. Variations of the twisting angle between different graphene...


2021 ◽  
Vol 126 (22) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaichen Dong ◽  
Tiancheng Zhang ◽  
Jiachen Li ◽  
Qingjun Wang ◽  
Fuyi Yang ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keiju Sato ◽  
Naoki Hayashi ◽  
Takahiro Ito ◽  
Noriyuki Masago ◽  
Makoto Takamura ◽  
...  

AbstractMagic-angle twisted bilayer graphene, consisting of two graphene layers stacked at a special angle, exhibits superconductivity due to the maximized density of states at the energy of the flat band. Generally, experiments on twisted bilayer graphene have been performed using micrometer-scale samples. Here we report the fabrication of twisted bilayer graphene with an area exceeding 3 × 5 mm2 by transferring epitaxial graphene onto another epitaxial graphene, and observation of a flat band and large bandgap using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. Our results suggest that the substrate potential induces both the asymmetrical doping in large angle twisted bilayer graphene and the electron doped nature of the flat band in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zachary A. H. Goodwin ◽  
Lennart Klebl ◽  
Valerio Vitale ◽  
Xia Liang ◽  
Vivek Gogtay ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (14) ◽  
pp. 4690 ◽  
Author(s):  
Di Wu ◽  
Yi Pan ◽  
Tai Min

The twistronics, which is arising from the moiré superlattice of the small angle between twisted bilayers of 2D materials like graphene, has attracted much attention in the field of 2D materials and condensed matter physics. The novel physical properties in such systems, like unconventional superconductivity, come from the dispersionless flat band that appears when the twist reaches some magic angles. By tuning the filling of the fourfold degeneracy flat bands, the desired effects are induced due to the strong correlation of the degenerated Bloch electrons. In this article, we review the twistronics in twisted bi- and multi-layer graphene (TBG and TMG), which is formed both by transfer assembly of exfoliated monolayer graphene and epitaxial growth of multilayer graphene on SiC substrates. Starting from a brief history, we then introduce the theory of flat band in TBG. In the following, we focus on the major achievements in this field: (a) van Hove singularities and charge order; (b) superconductivity and Mott insulator in TBG and (c) transport properties in TBG. In the end, we give the perspective of the rising materials system of twistronics, epitaxial multilayer graphene on the SiC.


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