Flat bands, strange metals and the Kondo effect

JG Checkelsky, BA Bernevig, P Coleman, Q Si… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Flat-band materials such as the kagome metals or moiré superlattices are of intense current
interest. Flat bands can result from the electron motion on numerous (special) lattices and …

A microscopic perspective on moiré materials

KP Nuckolls, A Yazdani - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Contemporary quantum materials research is guided by themes of topology and electronic
correlations. A confluence of these two themes is engineered in moiré materials, an …

Evolution from quantum anomalous Hall insulator to heavy-fermion semimetal in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

C Huang, X Zhang, G Pan, H Li, K Sun, X Dai, ZY Meng - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
The ground states of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) at chiral and flat-band limit with integer
fillings are known from exact solutions, while their dynamical and thermodynamical …

Topological flat bands, valley polarization, and interband superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene with proximitized spin-orbit couplings

YZ Chou, Y Tan, F Wu, S Das Sarma - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We study theoretically the magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene with proximity-induced
Ising and Rashba spin-orbit couplings on the top layer. Topological flat bands (with three …

Molecular pairing in twisted bilayer graphene superconductivity

YJ Wang, GD Zhou, SY Peng, B Lian… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We propose a theory for how the weak phonon-mediated interaction ($ J_ {\rm A}\!=\! 1\!\sim\!
4$ meV) wins over the prohibitive Coulomb repulsion ($ U\!=\! 30\!\sim\! 60$ meV) and leads …

Electron–-phonon interaction in twisted bilayer graphene

CX Liu, Y Chen, A Yazdani, BA Bernevig - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We develop an analytic theory to describe the interaction between electrons and K phonons
and study its influence on superconductivity in the bare bands of twisted bilayer graphene …

Hamiltonian learning with real-space impurity tomography in topological moiré superconductors

M Khosravian, R Koch, JL Lado - Journal of Physics: Materials, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Extracting Hamiltonian parameters from available experimental data is a challenge in
quantum materials. In particular, real-space spectroscopy methods such as scanning …

Topological mixed valence model in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

Y Li, BM Fregoso, M Dzero - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We develop a model to describe the mixed valence regime in magic-angle twisted bilayer
graphene (MATBG) using the recently developed heavy-fermion framework. By employing …

Cryo-Near-Field Photovoltage Microscopy of Heavy-Fermion Twisted Symmetric Trilayer Graphene

S Batlle-Porro, D Calugaru, H Hu, RK Kumar… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Ever since the initial experimental observation of correlated insulators and superconductivity
in the flat Dirac bands of magic angle twisted bilayer graphene, a search for the microscopic …

Dynamical correlations and order in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

G Rai, L Crippa, D Călugăru, H Hu, L Medici… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
In magic angle twisted bilayer graphene, transport, thermodynamic and spectroscopic
experiments pinpoint at a competition between distinct low-energy states with and without …