Multiple-scales perspective on moir茅 materials
Multiple-scales perspective on moir茅 materials
In recent years, experiments have shown that twisted bilayer graphene and other so-called ``moir茅 materials'' realize a variety of important strongly-correlated electronic phases, such as superconductivity and fractional quantum anomalous Hall states. I will present a rigorous multiple-scales analysis justifying the (single-particle) Bistritzer-MacDonald model, which played a critical role in the prediction of these phases in twisted bilayer graphene. The significance of this model is that it has moir茅-periodic coefficients even when the underlying material is aperiodic at the atomic scale, allowing moir茅 materials to be studied via Floquet-Bloch band theory. I will then discuss generalizations of this model and other mathematical questions related to moir茅 materials.