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TWISTED BILAYERS

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Observations of an electronic state where rotational symmetry is broken show that this could be a generic feature of moiré materials.

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Fig. 1: Moiré nematic phase in twisted double bilayer graphene.

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Feldman, B.E. The preferred direction. Nat. Phys. 18, 129–130 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-021-01456-0

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