Extended Coupled Cluster approach to Twisted Graphene Layers

A study of correlation effects in twisted bilayer graphene is presented using the extended coupled cluster method at consistent mean-field and beyond mean-field truncations. In order to describe the phase transitions in this strongly correlated system, equations and a suitable implementation is developed for the method. Combining modern tensor contraction techniques with singular value decomposition, the correlation effects are successfully described in a qualitative manner, with the majority of both short-range and long-range Coulomb interactions included. The superconducting gap is found to peak at an angle θc = 1.00^∘ with a BCS value for the critical temperature of TcBCS = 0.8K matching closely with experiment. Additionally, a homogeneous (s-wave) gap is found. While the simulations are somewhat limited by the truncations used, nevertheless, a strong candidate for the mechanism behind superconductive phases in twisted bilayer graphene is presented.