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most citedAtomic and electronic reconstruction at van der Waals interface in twisted bilayer graphene

711 citations · 2.4k across the 77 of their papers we have counts for

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86 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Relaxation effects on Hartree-Fock ground states in twisted bilayer graphene at even integer fillings

Tianyu Kong, Alexander B. Watson, Lin Lin +2

A standard approach for studying magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG)'s correlated electronic phase diagram is to project the Coulomb interaction down to effective models o…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Relaxation-driven flat bands and topology in moiré transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers

Mitchell Luskin, Max Geier, Liang Fu +1

Moiré transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterobilayers are commonly modeled by a continuum theory that yields topologically trivial bands, in contrast to their homobilayer coun…

physics.comp-ph2025

A high-order regularized delta-Chebyshev method for computing spectral densities

Jinjing Yi, Daniel Massatt, Andrew Horning +3

We introduce a numerical method for computing spectral densities, and apply it to the evaluation of the local density of states (LDOS) of sparse Hamiltonians derived from tight-bin…

physics.comp-ph2025★ 1 cited

An Atomic Cluster Expansion Potential for Twisted Multilayer Graphene

Yangshuai Wang, Drake Clark, Sambit Das +5

Twisted multilayer graphene, characterized by its moiré patterns arising from inter-layer rotational misalignment, serves as a rich platform for exploring quantum phenomena. Machin…

math-ph2025

Interacting Twisted Bilayer Graphene with Systematic Modeling of Structural Relaxation

Tianyu Kong, Alexander B. Watson, Mitchell Luskin +1

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) has drawn significant interest due to recent experiments which show that TBG can exhibit strongly correlated behavior such as the superconducting and…

math-ph2025★ 1 cited

Higher-order continuum models for twisted bilayer graphene

Solomon Quinn, Tianyu Kong, Mitchell Luskin +1

The first-order continuum PDE model proposed by Bistritzer and MacDonald in \cite{bistritzer2011moire} accurately describes the single-particle electronic properties of twisted bil…

math-ph2024

Mathematical foundations of phonons in incommensurate materials

Michael Hott, Alexander B. Watson, Mitchell Luskin

In some models, periodic configurations can be shown to be stable under, both, global or local perturbations. This is not the case for aperiodic media. The specific class…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 2 cited

Tunable atomically enhanced moiré Berry curvatures in twisted triple bilayer graphene

Konstantin Davydov, Ziyan Zhu, Noah Friedman +8

We report a twisted triple bilayer graphene platform consisting of three units of Bernal bilayer graphene consecutively twisted at 1.49° and 1.68°. We demonstrate the atomic recons…

math-ph2024

Learning the local density of states of a bilayer moiré material in one dimension

Diyi Liu, Alexander B. Watson, Michael Hott +2

Recent work of three of the authors showed that the operator which maps the local density of states of a one-dimensional untwisted bilayer material to the local density of states o…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Electron Collimation in Twisted Bilayer Graphene via Gate-defined Moiré Barriers

Wei Ren, Xi Zhang, Ziyan Zhu +6

Electron collimation via a graphene pn-junction allows electrostatic control of ballistic electron trajectories akin to that of an optical circuit. Similar manipulation of novel co…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023

Tunable Inter-Moiré Physics in Consecutively-Twisted Trilayer Graphene

Wei Ren, Konstantin Davydov, Ziyan Zhu +6

We fabricate a twisted trilayer graphene device with consecutive twist angles of 1.33 and 1.64 degrees, in which we electrostatically tune the electronic states from each of the tw…

math-ph2023

Modeling of electronic dynamics in twisted bilayer graphene

Tianyu Kong, Diyi Liu, Mitchell Luskin +1

We consider the problem of numerically computing the quantum dynamics of an electron in twisted bilayer graphene. The challenge is that atomic-scale models of the dynamics are aper…

math-ph2023

From incommensurate bilayer heterostructures to Allen-Cahn: An exact thermodynamic limit

Michael Hott, Alexander B. Watson, Mitchell Luskin

We give a complete and rigorous derivation of the mechanical energy for twisted 2D bilayer heterostructures without any approximation beyond the existence of an empirical many-body…

math-ph2023★ 4 cited

Mathematical aspects of the Kubo formula for electrical conductivity with dissipation

Alexander B. Watson, Dionisios Margetis, Mitchell Luskin

In this expository article, we present a systematic formal derivation of the Kubo formula for the linear-response current due to a time-harmonic electric field applied to non-inter…

math-ph2022

Relaxation and domain wall structure of bilayer moire systems

Paul Cazeaux, Drake Clark, Rebecca Engelke +2

Moire patterns result from setting a 2D material such as graphene on another 2D material with a small twist angle or from the lattice mismatch of 2D heterostructures. We present a…

math-ph2022

On the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model of electron transport: low-temperature optical conductivity by the Mellin transform

Dionisios Margetis, Alexander B. Watson, Mitchell Luskin

We describe the low-temperature optical conductivity as a function of frequency for a quantum-mechanical system of electrons that hop along a polymer chain. To this end, we invoke…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 9 cited

Seeing moiré: convolutional network learning applied to twistronics

Diyi Liu, Mitchell Luskin, Stephen Carr

Moiré patterns made of two-dimensional (2D) materials represent highly tunable electronic Hamiltonians, allowing a wide range of quantum phases to emerge in a single material. Curr…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 29 cited

Bistritzer-MacDonald dynamics in twisted bilayer graphene

Alexander B. Watson, Tianyu Kong, Allan H. MacDonald +1

The Bistritzer-MacDonald (BM) model, introduced in \cite{Bistritzer2011}, attempts to capture the electronic properties of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), even at incommensurate tw…

math.NA2021★ 1 cited

Electronic Observables for Relaxed Bilayer 2D Heterostructures in Momentum Space

Daniel Massatt, Stephen Carr, Mitchell Luskin

Momentum space transformations for incommensurate 2D electronic structure calculations are fundamental for reducing computational cost and for representing the data in a more physi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 13 cited

Gate-tunable Veselago Interference in a Bipolar Graphene Microcavity

Xi Zhang*, Wei Ren*, Elliot Bell +6

The relativistic charge carriers in monolayer graphene can be manipulated in manners akin to conventional optics (electron-optics): angle-dependent Klein tunneling collimates an el…

math-ph2021★ 24 cited

Existence of the first magic angle for the chiral model of bilayer graphene

Alexander B. Watson, Mitchell Luskin

We consider the chiral model of twisted bilayer graphene introduced by Tarnopolsky-Kruchkov-Vishwanath (TKV). TKV have proved that for inverse twist angles such that the effect…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 7 cited

Dipole excitation of collective modes in viscous two-dimensional electron systems

Vera Andreeva, Denis A. Bandurin, Mitchell Luskin +1

We describe the structure of the time-harmonic electromagnetic field of a vertical Hertzian electric dipole source radiating over an infinite, translation invariant two-dimensional…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 150 cited

Twisted Trilayer Graphene: a Precisely Tunable Platform for Correlated Electrons

Ziyan Zhu, Stephen Carr, Daniel Massatt +2

We introduce twisted trilayer graphene (tTLG) with two independent twist angles as an ideal system for the precise tuning of the electronic interlayer coupling to maximize the effe…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 3 cited

Finite-size effects in wave transmission through plasmonic crystals: A tale of two scales

Matthias Maier, Mitchell Luskin, Dionisios Margetis

We study optical coefficients that characterize wave propagation through layered structures called plasmonic crystals. These consist of a finite number of stacked metallic sheets e…