Existence of the first magic angle for the chiral model of bilayer graphene

DOI10.1063/5.0054122MaRDI QIDQ5154244zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexander Watson, Mitchell Luskin

Publication date 4 October 2021

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.06499

zbMATH Keywords

Fermi velocitygraphene

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of nanostructures and nanoparticles (82D80)

Abstract: We consider the chiral model of twisted bilayer graphene introduced by Tarnopolsky-Kruchkov-Vishwanath (TKV). TKV have proved that for inverse twist angles $alpha$ such that the effective Fermi velocity at the moir'e $K$ point vanishes, the chiral model has a perfectly flat band at zero energy over the whole Brillouin zone. By a formal expansion, TKV found that the Fermi velocity vanishes at $alphaapprox.586$. In this work, we give a proof that the Fermi velocity vanishes for at least one $alpha$ between $.57$ and $.61$ by rigorously justifying TKV's formal expansion of the Fermi velocity over a sufficiently large interval of $alpha$ values. The idea of the proof is to project the TKV Hamiltonian onto a finite dimensional subspace, and then expand the Fermi velocity in terms of explicitly computable linear combinations of modes in the subspace, while controlling the error. The proof relies on two propositions whose proofs are computer-assisted, i.e., numerical computation together with worst-case estimates on the accumulation of round-off error which show that round-off error cannot possibly change the conclusion of the computation. The propositions give a bound below on the spectral gap of the projected Hamiltonian, an Hermitian $80imes80$ matrix whose spectrum is symmetric about $0,$ and verify that two real 18th order polynomials, which approximate the numerator of the Fermi velocity, take values with definite sign when evaluated at specific values of $alpha$. Together with TKV's work our result proves existence of at least one perfectly flat band of the chiral model.

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