Topological and stacked flat bands in bilayer graphene with a superlattice potential

SAA Ghorashi, A Dunbrack, A Abouelkomsan, J Sun… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We show that bilayer graphene in the presence of a 2D superlattice potential provides a
highly tunable setup that can realize a variety of flat band phenomena. We focus on two …

Untwisting moiré physics: Almost ideal bands and fractional Chern insulators in periodically strained monolayer graphene

Q Gao, J Dong, P Ledwith, D Parker, E Khalaf - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Moiré systems have emerged in recent years as a rich platform to study strong correlations.
Here, we will propose a simple, experimentally feasible setup based on periodically strained …

Moiré surface states and enhanced superconductivity in topological insulators

T Wang, NFQ Yuan, L Fu - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
Recently, moiré superlattices have been found on the surface of topological insulators due
to the rotational misalignment of topmost layers. In this work, we study the effects of moiré …

Supermoiré low-energy effective theory of twisted trilayer graphene

Y Mao, D Guerci, C Mora - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Stacking three monolayers of graphene with a twist generally produces two moiré patterns.
A moiré of moiré structure then emerges at larger distance where the three layers …

Magic angles and correlations in twisted nodal superconductors

PA Volkov, JH Wilson, KP Lucht, JH Pixley - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Motivated by recent advances in the fabrication of twisted bilayers of two-dimensional
materials, we consider the low-energy properties of a twisted pair of two-dimensional nodal …

Symmetries as the guiding principle for flattening bands of Dirac fermions

Y Sheffer, R Queiroz, A Stern - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
Since the discovery of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene, flat bands in Dirac materials
have become a prominent platform for realizing strong correlation effects in electronic …

Chiral model of twisted bilayer graphene realized in a monolayer

V Crépel, A Dunbrack, D Guerci, J Bonini, J Cano - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We demonstrate that a single layer of graphene subject to a superlattice potential nearly
commensurate to a 3× 3 supercell exactly maps to the chiral model of twisted bilayer …

Multilayer graphene with a superlattice potential

SAA Ghorashi, J Cano - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Bernal stacked bilayer graphene subject to a superlattice potential can realize topological
and stacked flat bands [Ghorashi, Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 196201 (2023) …

Chern mosaic and ideal flat bands in equal-twist trilayer graphene

D Guerci, Y Mao, C Mora - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
We study trilayer graphene arranged in a staircase stacking configuration with equal
consecutive twist angle. On top of the moiré crystalline pattern, a supermoiré long …

Designer meron lattice on the surface of a topological insulator

D Guerci, J Wang, JH Pixley, J Cano - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We present a promising route to realize spontaneous magnetic order on the surface of a 3D
topological insulator by applying a superlattice potential. The superlattice potential lowers …