Evidence for Dirac flat band superconductivity enabled by quantum geometry

H Tian, X Gao, Y Zhang, S Che, T Xu, P Cheung… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
In a flat band superconductor, the charge carriers' group velocity v F is extremely slow.
Superconductivity therein is particularly intriguing, being related to the long-standing …

The roadmap of 2D materials and devices toward chips

A Liu, X Zhang, Z Liu, Y Li, X Peng, X Li, Y Qin, C Hu… - Nano-Micro Letters, 2024 - Springer
Due to the constraints imposed by physical effects and performance degradation, silicon-
based chip technology is facing certain limitations in sustaining the advancement of Moore's …

Emergent phases in graphene flat bands

S Bhowmik, A Ghosh, U Chandni - Reports on Progress in …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Electronic correlations in two-dimensional materials play a crucial role in stabilising
emergent phases of matter. The realisation of correlation-driven phenomena in graphene …

Flat bands and electronic localization in twisted bilayer graphene nanoribbons

E Andrade, PA Pantaleón, F Guinea, GG Naumis - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We analyze the electronic structure of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) nanoribbons close to
the magic angle. We describe a transition from an incomplete to a complete moiré structure …

Atomic-scale confinement and negative refraction of plasmons by twisted bilayer graphene

X Su, T Huang, B Zheng, J Wang, X Wang, S Yan… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Moiré superlattices provide in-plane quantum restriction for light–matter interactions in
twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG), leading to the exotic photon–Moiré physics and potential …

Beyond the effective length: How to analyze magnetic interference patterns of thin-film planar Josephson junctions with finite lateral dimensions

R Fermin, B de Wit, J Aarts - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The magnetic-field-dependent critical current I c (B) of a Josephson junction is determined
by the screening currents in its electrodes. In macroscopic junctions, a local vector potential …

Atomistic theory of the moiré Hofstadter butterfly in magic-angle graphene

A Wania Rodrigues, M Bieniek, P Potasz, D Miravet… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We present here a Hofstadter's butterfly spectrum for the magic-angle twisted bilayer
graphene obtained using an ab initio-based multimillion-atom tight-binding model. We …

Arrays of one-dimensional conducting channels in minimally twisted bilayer graphene

Z Hou, K Yuan, H Jiang - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Minimally twisted bilayer graphene with interlayer potential asymmetry hosts one-
dimensional topological helical states at domain walls between AB/BA-stacking regions …

Impact of vacancies on twisted bilayer graphene quantum point contacts

P Moles, F Domínguez-Adame, L Chico - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We carry out an extensive numerical study of low-temperature electronic transport in
quantum point contacts based on twisted bilayer graphene. Assuming ballistic electron …

Real-space tight-binding model for twisted bilayer graphene based on mapped Wannier functions

M Servati, R Rasuli, A Tavana - Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Twisted multi-layer heterostructures have been considered a platform for studying highly
correlated many-particle systems, hosting the emerging phenomena of correlation physics …