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Flat band ferromagnetism without connectivity conditions in the flat band

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2014-11-25 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Soft Condensed Matter

Abstract

It is known that a system which exhibits a half filled lowest flat band and the localized one-particle Wannier states on the flat band satisfy the connectivity conditions, is always ferromagnetic. Without the connectivity conditions on the flat band, the system is non-magnetic. We show that this is not always true. The reason is connected to a peculiar behavior of the band situated just above the flat band.

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@article{arxiv.1411.6477,
  title  = {Flat band ferromagnetism without connectivity conditions in the flat band},
  author = {Miklos Gulacsi and Gyorgy Kovacs and Zsolt Gulacsi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.6477},
  year   = {2014}
}

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15 pages, 4 figures