ArXiv · 2026
Slow twist-angle and heterostrain textures in twisted bilayer graphene provide a natural route to phase-space Berry geometry. We show that a purely geometric tetrad/shift sector does not generate mixed Berry curvature once the spin connection is treated consistently. By contrast, a projected textured mini-Dirac cone in twisted bilayer graphene acquires genuine mixed phase-space curvature. We analyze a controlled local Hall-bar limit with a one-dimensional texture and mirror Mₓ. In that limit the pseudogauge gradient renormalizes only the longitudinal conductivity along the textured direction, while a dc nonlinear Hall response appears only when an additional valley-odd tilt generates a Berry-curvature dipole. Both geometric responses peak at the same local filling, μ_(rm loc)=√2 m, providing a gate-tunable fingerprint of their common origin. All local-cone parameters and their texture susceptibilities are extracted from a heterostrained Bistritzer-MacDonald model at θ=1.3^∘. The tilt invoked in the transport estimates corresponds to heterostrain of only 0.03%-0.2%, below values routinely imaged in devices. The resulting theory provides a local analytic framework for textured moiré Dirac materials and cleanly separates geometric, texture-induced, and transport-level ingredients relevant to realistic TBG.
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