Exact ground state of interacting electrons in magic angle graphene
arXiv:2312.15314 · doi:10.1007/s00220-025-05300-x
Abstract
One of the most remarkable theoretical findings in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) is the emergence of ferromagnetic Slater determinants as exact ground states for the interacting Hamiltonian at the chiral limit. This discovery provides an explanation for the correlated insulating phase which has been experimentally observed at half filling. This work is the first mathematical study of interacting models in magic angle graphene systems. These include not only TBG but also TBG-like systems featuring four flat bands per valley, and twisted trilayer graphene (TTG) systems with equal twist angles. We identify symmetries of the Bistritzer-MacDonald Hamiltonian that are responsible for characterizing the Hartree-Fock ground states as zero energy many-body ground states. Furthermore, for a general class of Hamiltonian, we establish criteria that the ferromagnetic Slater determinants are the unique ground states within the class of uniformly half-filled, translation invariant Slater determinants. We then demonstrate that these criteria can be explicitly verified for TBG and TBG-like systems at the chiral limit, using properties of Jacobi- and Weierstrass- functions.
arXiv comment50 pages, 5 figures
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