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Hauptverfasser: Quan, Xue, Watson, Alex, Massatt, Daniel
Format: Preprint
Veröffentlicht: 2024
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.15712
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author Quan, Xue
Watson, Alex
Massatt, Daniel
author_facet Quan, Xue
Watson, Alex
Massatt, Daniel
contents Single-particle continuum models such as the popular Bistritzer-MacDonald model have become powerful tools for predicting electronic phenomena of incommensurate 2D materials and the development of many-body models aimed to model unconventional superconductivity and correlated insulators. In this work, we introduce a procedure to construct continuum models of arbitrary accuracy relative to tight-binding models for moiré incommensurate bilayers. This is done by recognizing the continuum model as arising from Taylor expansions of a high accuracy momentum space approximation of the tight-binding model. We apply our procedure in full detail to two models of twisted bilayer graphene and demonstrate both admit the Bistritzer-MacDonald model as the leading order continuum model, while higher order expansions reveal qualitative spectral differences.
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spellingShingle Construction and Accuracy of Electronic Continuum Models of Incommensurate Bilayer 2D Materials
Quan, Xue
Watson, Alex
Massatt, Daniel
Mathematical Physics
Numerical Analysis
35Q40
Single-particle continuum models such as the popular Bistritzer-MacDonald model have become powerful tools for predicting electronic phenomena of incommensurate 2D materials and the development of many-body models aimed to model unconventional superconductivity and correlated insulators. In this work, we introduce a procedure to construct continuum models of arbitrary accuracy relative to tight-binding models for moiré incommensurate bilayers. This is done by recognizing the continuum model as arising from Taylor expansions of a high accuracy momentum space approximation of the tight-binding model. We apply our procedure in full detail to two models of twisted bilayer graphene and demonstrate both admit the Bistritzer-MacDonald model as the leading order continuum model, while higher order expansions reveal qualitative spectral differences.
title Construction and Accuracy of Electronic Continuum Models of Incommensurate Bilayer 2D Materials
topic Mathematical Physics
Numerical Analysis
35Q40
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.15712