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Flat Bands and Compact Localised States: A Carrollian roadmap

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-08-20 v3 Strongly Correlated Electrons Quantum Physics

Abstract

We show how Carrollian symmetries become important in the construction of one-dimensional fermionic systems with all flat-band spectra from first principles. The key ingredient of this construction is the identification of Compact Localised States (CLSs), which appear naturally by demanding supertranslation\textit{supertranslation} invariance of the system. We use CLS basis states, with inherent ultra-local\textit{ultra-local} correlations, to write down an interacting theory which shows a non-trivial phase structure and an emergent Carroll conformal symmetry at the gapless points. We analyze this theory in detail for both zero and finite chemical potential.

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@article{arxiv.2412.18965,
  title  = {Flat Bands and Compact Localised States: A Carrollian roadmap},
  author = {Nisa Ara and Aritra Banerjee and Rudranil Basu and Bhagya Krishnan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.18965},
  year   = {2025}
}
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