Stoner ferromagnetism in low-angle twisted bilayer graphene at three- quarters filling

KJU Vidarte and FP Riffo and ES Morell and C Lewenkopf, PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 111, 045164 (2025).

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.111.045164

We present a theoretical investigation of the magnetic properties exhibited by twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) systems with small twist angles, where the appearance of flat minibands strongly enhances electron-electron interaction effects. We show that, at three-quarters filling of the conduction miniband, the Stoner mechanism induces a ferromagnetic polarization in the AA-stacking regions, which aligns with recent experimental observations. Our approach models the electronic properties by a tight-binding Hamiltonian combined with a Hubbard mean- field interaction term. We employ a real-space recursion technique to self-consistently calculate the system's local density of states and use our method to investigate the magnetic properties of small-angle TBG at three-quarters filling. The recursion method's O(N ) efficiency makes it possible to address extremely large superlattices through a full real- space approach. We validate our procedure by comparing it with mean- field momentum-space calculations from the literature, which identify a magnetic phase in charge-neutral TBG.

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