Moiré butterflies in twisted bilayer graphene
By R. Bistritzer, Allan H. MacDonald. 2011
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The Hofstadter butterfly spectral patterns of lattice electrons in an external magnetic field yield some of the most beguiling images in physics. Here we explore the magnetoelectronic spectra of systems with moire spatial patterns, concentrating on the case of twisted bilayer graphene. Because long-period spatial patterns are accurately formed at small twist angles, fractal butterfly spectra and associated magnetotransport and magnetomechanical anomalies emerge at accessible magnetic field strengths.
Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry
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In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
- Franco Nori
- A. Rozhkov
- A. Rakhmanov
- A. O. Sboychakov
- Ashvin Vishwanath
- G. Tarnopolsky
- A. Kruchkov
- M. Koshino
In Materials Chemistry
- Franco Nori
- A. Rozhkov
- A. O. Sboychakov
- A. Rakhmanov
- Ashvin Vishwanath
- G. Tarnopolsky
- A. Kruchkov
- M. Koshino
Citations in the corpus
- Interlayer interaction in general incommensurate atomic layers (2015, background): “When the rotation angle is small, in particular, the system exhibits a moiré interference pattern of which period can be much greater than the atomic scale, and such a long-period modulation is known to strongly influence the low-energy electronic motion [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14].”
- Origin of Magic Angles in Twisted Bilayer Graphene. (2018, background): “Early studies [35, 36, 38, 39] set w0 = w1 which we denote as the Bistritzer-MacDonald continuum model (BM-CM).”
- Electronic properties of graphene-based bilayer systems (2015, methodology): “[434] used the Landau gauge A = B(−y, 0, 0).”