Quasi-periodic flat-band model constructed by molecular-orbital representation
Abstract
We construct a tight-binding model that hosts both a quasi-periodic nature and marcoscopically-dengenerate zero-energy modes. The model can be regarded as a counterpart of the Aubry-Andr\'{e}-Harper (AAH) model, which is a paradigmatic example of the quasi-periodic tight-binding model. Our main focus is on the many-body state where the flat-band-like degenerate zero-energy modes are fully occupied. We find a characteristic sublattice dependence of the particle density distribution. Further, by analyzing the hyperuniformity of the particle density distribution, we find that it belongs to the class-I hyperuniform distribution, regardless of the model parameter. We also show that, upon changing the parameter, the finite-energy modes exhibit the same extended-to-localized transition as that for the original AAH model.
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@article{arxiv.2506.08450,
title = {Quasi-periodic flat-band model constructed by molecular-orbital representation},
author = {Tomonari Mizoguchi and Yasuhiro Hatsugai},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.08450},
year = {2025}
}
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9 pages, 11 figures