Superconductivity, superfluidity and quantum geometry in twisted multilayer systems

P Törmä, S Peotta, BA Bernevig - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Superconductivity has been observed in moiré systems such as twisted bilayer graphene,
which host flat, dispersionless electronic bands. In parallel, theory work has discovered that …

Topological phononic metamaterials

W Zhu, W Deng, Y Liu, J Lu, HX Wang… - Reports on Progress …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The concept of topological energy bands and their manifestations have been demonstrated
in condensed matter systems as a fantastic paradigm toward unprecedented physical …

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene as a topological heavy fermion problem

ZD Song, BA Bernevig - Physical review letters, 2022 - APS
Magic-angle (θ= 1.0 5°) twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) has shown two seemingly
contradictory characters: the localization and quantum-dot-like behavior in STM …

Twisted bilayer graphene. IV. Exact insulator ground states and phase diagram

B Lian, ZD Song, N Regnault, DK Efetov, A Yazdani… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We derive the exact insulator ground states of the projected Hamiltonian of magic-angle
twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) flat bands with Coulomb interactions in various limits, and …

Unconventional sequence of correlated Chern insulators in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

AT Pierce, Y Xie, JM Park, E Khalaf, SH Lee, Y Cao… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
The interplay between strong electron–electron interactions and band topology can produce
electronic states that spontaneously break symmetries. The discovery of flat bands in magic …

Twisted bilayer graphene. III. Interacting Hamiltonian and exact symmetries

BA Bernevig, ZD Song, N Regnault, B Lian - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We derive the explicit Hamiltonian of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) with Coulomb
interaction projected into the flat bands and study the symmetries of the Hamiltonian. First …

Kondo lattice model of magic-angle twisted-bilayer graphene: Hund's rule, local-moment fluctuations, and low-energy effective theory

H Hu, BA Bernevig, AM Tsvelik - Physical review letters, 2023 - APS
We apply a generalized Schrieffer-Wolff transformation to the extended Anderson-like
topological heavy fermion (THF) model for the magic-angle (θ= 1.0 5°) twisted bilayer …

Twisted bilayer graphene. V. Exact analytic many-body excitations in Coulomb Hamiltonians: Charge gap, Goldstone modes, and absence of Cooper pairing

BA Bernevig, B Lian, A Cowsik, F Xie, N Regnault… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We find exact analytic expressions for the energies and wave functions of the charged and
neutral excitations above the exact ground states (at rational filling per unit cell) of projected …

Twisted bilayer graphene. VI. An exact diagonalization study at nonzero integer filling

F Xie, A Cowsik, ZD Song, B Lian, BA Bernevig… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Using exact diagonalization, we study the projected Hamiltonian with the Coulomb
interaction in the eight flat bands of first magic angle twisted bilayer graphene. Employing …

Kekulé spiral order at all nonzero integer fillings in twisted bilayer graphene

YH Kwan, G Wagner, T Soejima, MP Zaletel, SH Simon… - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
We study magic angle graphene in the presence of both strain and particle-hole symmetry
breaking due to nonlocal interlayer tunneling. We perform a self-consistent Hartree-Fock …