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Published on: July 11, 2025
Electrostatic effects, band distortions, and superconductivity in twisted graphene bilayers
Francisco Guinea1,2, Niels R Walet3
1Imdea Nanoscience, 28015 Madrid, Spain; paco.guinea@imdea.org Niels.Walet@manchester.ac.uk.
Abstract:
Bilayer graphene twisted by a small angle shows a significant charge modulation away from neutrality, as the charge in the narrow bands near the Dirac point is mostly localized in a fraction of the Moiré unit cell. The resulting electrostatic potential leads to a filling-dependent change in the low-energy bands, of a magnitude comparable to or larger than the bandwidth. These modifications can be expressed in terms of new electron-electron interactions, which, when expressed in a local basis, describe electron-assisted hopping terms. These interactions favor superconductivity at certain fillings.
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