Flat Bands in Slightly Twisted Bilayer Graphene

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2010-12-20

arxiv.org/abs/1012.4320v1

Phys. Rev. B 82, 121407(R) (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

6 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.82.121407

The bands of graphite are extremely sensitive to topological defects which modify the electronic structure. In this paper we found non-dispersive flat bands no farther than 10 meV of the Fermi energy in slightly twisted bilayer graphene as a signature of a transition from a parabolic dispersion of bilayer graphene to the characteristic linear dispersion of graphene. This transition occurs for relative rotation angles of layers around $1.5^o$ and is related to a process of layer decoupling. We have performed ab-initio calculations to develop a tight binding model with an interaction Hamiltonian between layers that includes the $\pi$ orbitals of all atoms and takes into account interactions up to third nearest-neighbors within a layer.

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