WKB estimate of bilayer graphene's magic twist angles

Y Ren, Q Gao, AH MacDonald, Q Niu - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Physical Review Letters, 2021APS
Graphene bilayers exhibit zero-energy flatbands at a discrete series of magic twist angles. In
the absence of intrasublattice interlayer hopping, zero-energy states satisfy a Dirac equation
with a non-Abelian SU (2) gauge potential that cannot be diagonalized globally. We develop
a semiclassical WKB approximation scheme for this Dirac equation by introducing a
dimensionless Planck's constant proportional to the twist angle, solving the linearized Dirac
equation around AB and BA turning points, and connecting Airy function solutions via bulk …
Graphene bilayers exhibit zero-energy flatbands at a discrete series of magic twist angles. In the absence of intrasublattice interlayer hopping, zero-energy states satisfy a Dirac equation with a non-Abelian SU(2) gauge potential that cannot be diagonalized globally. We develop a semiclassical WKB approximation scheme for this Dirac equation by introducing a dimensionless Planck’s constant proportional to the twist angle, solving the linearized Dirac equation around and turning points, and connecting Airy function solutions via bulk WKB wave functions. We find zero-energy solutions at a discrete set of values of the dimensionless Planck’s constant, which we obtain analytically. Our analytic flatband twist angles correspond closely to those determined numerically in previous work.
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