Pressure Induced Compression of Flatbands in Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Abstract

We investigate the bandwidth compression due to out of plane pressure of the moire flatbands near charge neutrality in twisted bilayer graphene for a continuous range of small rotation angles of up to $\sim 2.5^{\circ }$. The flatband bandwidth minima angles are found to grow linearly with interlayer coupling ω and decrease with Fermi velocity. Application of moderate pressure values of up to 2.5 GPa achievable through a hydraulic press should allow accessing a flatband for angles as large as $\sim 1.5$^{\circ}$insteadof$\sim 1 \circ$atzeropressure.Thisreductionofthemoir\acute{e}patternlengthforlargertwistangleimpliesanincreaseoftheeffectiveCoulombinteractionscalepermoirecellbyabout50$\sim 2$ the elastic energy that resists the commensuration strains due to the moire pattern. Our results suggest that application of pressure on twisted bilayer graphene nanodevices through a hydraulic press will notably facilitate the device preparation efforts required for exploring the ordered phases near magic angle flatbands.

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