Opportunities and challenges in twisted bilayer graphene: a review

A Nimbalkar, H Kim - Nano-Micro Letters, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) materials exhibit enhanced physical, chemical, electronic,
and optical properties when compared to those of bulk materials. Graphene demands …

Tuning superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene

M Yankowitz, S Chen, H Polshyn, Y Zhang… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Materials with flat electronic bands often exhibit exotic quantum phenomena owing to strong
correlations. An isolated low-energy flat band can be induced in bilayer graphene by simply …

Maximally localized wannier orbitals and the extended hubbard model for twisted bilayer graphene

M Koshino, NFQ Yuan, T Koretsune, M Ochi, K Kuroki… - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
We develop an effective extended Hubbard model to describe the low-energy electronic
properties of the twisted bilayer graphene. By using the Bloch states in the effective …

Failure of Nielsen-Ninomiya theorem and fragile topology in two-dimensional systems with space-time inversion symmetry: application to twisted bilayer graphene at …

J Ahn, S Park, BJ Yang - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
We show that the Wannier obstruction and the fragile topology of the nearly flat bands in
twisted bilayer graphene at magic angle are manifestations of the nontrivial topology of two …

Twisted bilayer graphene: a phonon-driven superconductor

B Lian, Z Wang, BA Bernevig - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
We study the electron-phonon coupling in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), which was
recently experimentally observed to exhibit superconductivity around the magic twist angle …

Symmetry, maximally localized wannier states, and a low-energy model for twisted bilayer graphene narrow bands

J Kang, O Vafek - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
We build symmetry-adapted maximally localized Wannier states and construct the low-
energy tight-binding model for the four narrow bands of twisted bilayer graphene. We do so …

Band structure of twisted bilayer graphene: Emergent symmetries, commensurate approximants, and Wannier obstructions

L Zou, HC Po, A Vishwanath, T Senthil - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
A remarkable feature of the band structure of bilayer graphene at small twist angle is the
appearance of isolated bands near neutrality, whose bandwidth can be reduced at certain …

Twisted bilayer graphene aligned with hexagonal boron nitride: Anomalous Hall effect and a lattice model

YH Zhang, D Mao, T Senthil - Physical Review Research, 2019 - APS
A recent experiment reported a large anomalous Hall effect in magic angle twisted bilayer
graphene (TBG) aligned with a hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) substrate at 3/4 filling of the …

Faithful tight-binding models and fragile topology of magic-angle bilayer graphene

HC Po, L Zou, T Senthil, A Vishwanath - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Correlated insulators and superconductivity have been observed in “magic-angle” twisted
bilayer graphene, when the nearly flat bands close to neutrality are partially filled. While a …

Superconductivity from valley fluctuations and approximate SO (4) symmetry in a weak coupling theory of twisted bilayer graphene

YZ You, A Vishwanath - npj Quantum Materials, 2019 - nature.com
The recent discovery of the Mott insulating and superconducting phases in twisted bilayer
graphene has generated tremendous research interest. Here, we develop a weak coupling …