Graphene bilayers with a twist

EY Andrei, AH MacDonald - Nature materials, 2020 - nature.com
Near a magic twist angle, bilayer graphene transforms from a weakly correlated Fermi liquid
to a strongly correlated two-dimensional electron system with properties that are …

Magic-angle helical trilayer graphene

T Devakul, PJ Ledwith, LQ Xia, A Uri… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
We propose magic-angle helical trilayer graphene (HTG), a helical structure featuring
identical rotation angles between three consecutive layers of graphene, as a unique and …

Renormalization group study of hidden symmetry in twisted bilayer graphene with coulomb interactions

O Vafek, J Kang - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We develop a two stage renormalization group which connects the continuum Hamiltonian
for twisted bilayer graphene at length scales shorter than the moire superlattice period to the …

Vortexability: A unifying criterion for ideal fractional Chern insulators

PJ Ledwith, A Vishwanath, DE Parker - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Fractional Chern insulators realize the remarkable physics of the fractional quantum Hall
effect (FQHE) in crystalline systems with Chern bands. The lowest Landau level (LLL) is …

Chiral approximation to twisted bilayer graphene: Exact intravalley inversion symmetry, nodal structure, and implications for higher magic angles

J Wang, Y Zheng, AJ Millis, J Cano - Physical Review Research, 2021 - APS
This paper presents a mathematical and numerical analysis of the flat-band wave functions
occurring in the chiral model of twisted bilayer graphene at the “magic” twist angles. We …

Hierarchy of ideal flatbands in chiral twisted multilayer graphene models

J Wang, Z Liu - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We propose models of twisted multilayer graphene that exhibit exactly flat Bloch bands with
arbitrary Chern numbers and ideal band geometries. The models are constructed by twisting …

Origin of model fractional Chern insulators in all topological ideal flatbands: Explicit color-entangled wave function and exact density algebra

J Wang, S Klevtsov, Z Liu - Physical Review Research, 2023 - APS
It is commonly believed that nonuniform Berry curvature destroys the Girvin-MacDonald-
Platzman algebra and as a consequence destabilizes fractional Chern insulators. In this …

Cascades between light and heavy fermions in the normal state of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

J Kang, BA Bernevig, O Vafek - Physical review letters, 2021 - APS
We present a framework for understanding the cascade transitions and the Landau level
degeneracies of twisted bilayer graphene. The Coulomb interaction projected onto narrow …

Heavy-fermion representation for twisted bilayer graphene systems

H Shi, X Dai - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We construct a heavy fermion representation for twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) systems.
Two local orbitals (per spin/valley) are analytically found, which are exactly the maximally …

Realization of topological Mott insulator in a twisted bilayer graphene lattice model

BB Chen, YD Liao, Z Chen, O Vafek, J Kang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has recently become a thriving material platform
realizing correlated electron phenomena taking place within its topological flat bands …