Magic distances for flat bands in twisted bilayer graphene (2401.09884v1)
Abstract: Twisted bilayer graphene is known to host isolated and relatively flat bands near charge neutrality, when tuned to specific magic angles. Nonetheless, these rotational misalignments, lying below 1.1 degrees, result in long-period moir\'e crystals, whose anomalous electronic properties are hardly accessible to reliable atomistic simulations. Here, we present a map of differently stacked graphene sheets, at arbitrary rotation angles corresponding to precise interplanar distances, into an equivalence class represented by magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene. We determine the equivalence relation in the class within a continuum model, and extend its definition to a tight-binding approach. Then, we use density functional theory to suggest that the magic-angle physics may be characterized by costly computational strategies on a twisted bilayer geometry, with conveniently large stacking angles. Our results may pave the way for an ab initio characterization of the unconventional topological phases and related excitations, associated with currently observed low-energy quasi-flat bands.
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