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 …

Various defects in graphene: a review

MD Bhatt, H Kim, G Kim - RSC advances, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Pristine graphene has been considered one of the most promising materials because of its
excellent physical and chemical properties. However, various defects in graphene produced …

Electronic-structure methods for twisted moiré layers

S Carr, S Fang, E Kaxiras - Nature Reviews Materials, 2020 - nature.com
When single layers of 2D materials are stacked on top of one another with a small twist in
orientation, the resulting structure often involves incommensurate moiré patterns. In these …

Mechanism for anomalous hall ferromagnetism in twisted bilayer graphene

N Bultinck, S Chatterjee, MP Zaletel - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
Motivated by the recent observation of an anomalous Hall effect in twisted bilayer graphene,
we use a lowest Landau level model to understand the origin of the underlying symmetry …

Superlattice-induced insulating states and valley-protected orbits in twisted bilayer graphene

Y Cao, JY Luo, V Fatemi, S Fang… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
Twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) is one of the simplest van der Waals heterostructures, yet it
yields a complex electronic system with intricate interplay between moiré physics and …

Electronic properties of graphene-based bilayer systems

AV Rozhkov, AO Sboychakov, AL Rakhmanov, F Nori - Physics Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
This article reviews the theoretical and experimental work related to the electronic properties
of bilayer graphene systems. Three types of bilayer stackings are discussed: the AA, AB, and …

Origin of Mott insulating behavior and superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene

HC Po, L Zou, A Vishwanath, T Senthil - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
A remarkable recent experiment has observed Mott insulator and proximate superconductor
phases in twisted bilayer graphene when electrons partly fill a nearly flat miniband that …

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 …

Tight-binding model and direct-gap/indirect-gap transition in single-layer and multilayer MoS

E Cappelluti, R Roldán, JA Silva-Guillén… - Physical Review B …, 2013 - APS
In this paper we present a paradigmatic tight-binding model for single-layer as well as
multilayered semiconducting MoS 2 and similar transition metal dichalcogenides. We show …

Doped twisted bilayer graphene near magic angles: proximity to Wigner crystallization, not Mott insulation

B Padhi, C Setty, PW Phillips - Nano letters, 2018 - ACS Publications
We devise a model to explain why twisted bilayer graphene exhibits insulating behavior
when ν= 2 or 3 charges occupy a unit moiré cell, a feature attributed to Mottness per …