Founded in 1425, the University of Louvain is one of Europe’s oldest universities, with more than 30,000 students. UCL is a key player in fundamental research in Belgium, in Europe and worldwide and is also an official partner of the Graphene Flagship. Two UCL research groups will participate in 2Dare: the research group of Prof. J.-C. Charlier and the research group of Prof. Benoit Hackens.

The UCLouvain-Theory team led by Prof. J.-C. Charlier has a long-standing experience with numerical simulations of graphene systems and more recently on twisted bilayer graphene. Consequently its role in the FLATS project will be to perform numerical simulations to reduce the spectrum of angles to explore in twisted devices. Home-made codes based on the Green’s function formalism will be used to investigate the electronic and quantum transport properties of twisted bilayer graphene systems with a number of atoms up to the order of 10^5, thus being able to reach the size of experimental devices. Guided by these simulations, the experimental groups will be able to find efficiently the best range of angular alignment that will give rise to QAHE and superconductivity phenomena.