Twistraintronics in Square Moire Superlattices of Stacked Graphene Layers
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| author | Carrasco, Roberto Escudero, Federico Zhan, Zhen Rio, Eva Cortes-del Viña-Bausa, Beatriz Maximenko, Yulia Pantaleon, Pierre A. Guinea, Francisco Brihuega, Ivan |
| author_facet | Carrasco, Roberto Escudero, Federico Zhan, Zhen Rio, Eva Cortes-del Viña-Bausa, Beatriz Maximenko, Yulia Pantaleon, Pierre A. Guinea, Francisco Brihuega, Ivan |
| contents | We report the first observation of controlled, strain-induced square moire patterns in stacked graphene. By selectively displacing native wrinkles, we drive a reversible transition from the usual trigonal to square moire order. Scanning tunneling microscopy reveals elliptically shaped AA domains, while spectroscopy shows strong electronic correlation in the form of narrow bands with split Van Hove singularities near the Fermi level. A continuum model with electrostatic interactions reproduces these features under the specific twist-strain combination that minimizes elastic energy. This work demonstrates that the combination of twist and strain, or twistraintronics, enables the realization of highly correlated electronic states in moire heterostructures with geometries that were previously inaccessible. |
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| spellingShingle | Twistraintronics in Square Moire Superlattices of Stacked Graphene Layers Carrasco, Roberto Escudero, Federico Zhan, Zhen Rio, Eva Cortes-del Viña-Bausa, Beatriz Maximenko, Yulia Pantaleon, Pierre A. Guinea, Francisco Brihuega, Ivan Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics We report the first observation of controlled, strain-induced square moire patterns in stacked graphene. By selectively displacing native wrinkles, we drive a reversible transition from the usual trigonal to square moire order. Scanning tunneling microscopy reveals elliptically shaped AA domains, while spectroscopy shows strong electronic correlation in the form of narrow bands with split Van Hove singularities near the Fermi level. A continuum model with electrostatic interactions reproduces these features under the specific twist-strain combination that minimizes elastic energy. This work demonstrates that the combination of twist and strain, or twistraintronics, enables the realization of highly correlated electronic states in moire heterostructures with geometries that were previously inaccessible. |
| title | Twistraintronics in Square Moire Superlattices of Stacked Graphene Layers |
| topic | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04741 |