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Photonic flat bands are crucial for enabling strong localization of light and enhancing light-matter interactions, as well as tailoring the angular distribution of emission from photonic structures. These unique properties open pathways for…

Symmetry-protected ideal flat bands in one-dimensional (1D) Hermitian lattices are populated by compact localized states (CLS) - a special class of localization with wavefunctions confined within a small region. In this work, we discover…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Xulong Wang , Dongyi Wang , Congwei Lu , Ruo-Yang Zhang , Ching Hua Lee , Kun Ding , Guancong Ma

Flat energy bands of model lattice Hamiltonians provide a key ingredient in designing dispersionless wave excitations and have become a versatile platform to study various aspects of interacting many-body systems. Their essential merit lies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-15 C. V. Morfonios , M. Röntgen , M. Pyzh , P. Schmelcher

We show that a qubit transfer protocol can be realized through a flat band hosted by a disordered $XX$ spin-1/2 diamond chain. In the absence of disorder, the transmission becomes impossible due to the compact localized states forming the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-10 G. M. A. Almeida , R. F. Dutra , A. M. C. Souza , M. L. Lyra , F. A. B. F. de Moura

One of the great challenges for the large-scale development of quantum technologies is to generate and control the entanglement of quantum bits through interactions of sufficiently long range. Two decades ago, spin chains have been proposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Georges Bouzerar , Maxime Thumin

We experimentally demonstrate the emergence of flat-band-induced compact-localized modes in acoustic Kagome lattices. Compact localized states populate singular dispersion bands characterized by band crossing, where a quadratic and a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-11-11 Riva Emanuele , Federico Bellinzoni , Francesco Braghin

The flat band localization, as an important phenomenon in solid state physics, is fundamentally interesting in the exploration of exotic ground property of many-body system. Here we demonstrate the appearance of a flat band in a general…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-16 Liang-Liang Wan , Xin-You Lü , Jin-Hua Gao , Ying Wu

Flat bands - single-particle energy bands - in tight-binding networks have attracted attention due to the presence of macroscopic degeneracies and their extreme sensitivity to perturbations. This makes them natural candidates for emerging…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-27 Carlo Danieli , Alexei Andreanov , Daniel Leykam , Sergej Flach

Certain lattices with specific geometries have one or more spectral bands that are strictly flat, i.e. the electron energy is independent of the momentum. This can occur robustly irrespective of the specific couplings between the lattices…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 Md Nurul Huda , Shawulienu Kezilebieke , Peter Liljeroth

Flat bands provide a natural platform for emergent electronic states beyond Landau paradigm. Among those of particular importance are flat Chern bands, including bands of higher Chern numbers ($C$$>$$1$). We introduce a new framework for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-04 Alexander Kruchkov

Flat bands have band crossing points with other dispersive bands in many systems including the canonical flat band models in the Lieb and kagome lattices. Here we show that some of such band degeneracy points are unavoidable because of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Yoonseok Hwang , Jun-Won Rhim , Bohm-Jung Yang

Flat bands play an important role in the study of strongly correlated phenomena, such as ferromagnetism, superconductivity, and fractional quantum Hall effect. Here we report direct experimental evidence for the presence of flat bands,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-28 Lei Feng , Xianqing Lin , Lan Meng , Jia-Cai Nie , Jun Ni , Lin He

The localized nature of a flat band is understood by the existence of a compact localized eigenstate. However, the localization properties of a partially flat band, ubiquitous in surface modes of topological semimetals, have been unknown.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-25 Jin-Hong Park , Jun-Won Rhim

Flatbands play an important role in correlated quantum matter and have novel applications in photonic lattices. Synthetic magnetic fields and destructive interference in lattices are traditionally used to obtain flatbands. However, such…

Graphene antidot lattices have recently been proposed as a new breed of graphene-based superlattice structures. We study electronic properties of triangular antidot lattices, with emphasis on the occurrence of dispersionless (flat) bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-16 Mihajlo Vanevic , Vladimir M. Stojanovic , Markus Kindermann

Being dispersionless, flat bands on periodic lattices are solely characterized by their macroscopically degenerate eigenstates: compact localized states (CLSs) in real space and Bloch states in reciprocal space. Based on this property, this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-16 Ansgar Graf , Frédéric Piéchon

Flat bands in lattice models have provided useful platforms for studying strong correlation and topological physics. Recently, honeycomb superlattices have been shown to host flat bands that persist in the presence of local perturbations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-15 Zihao Qi , Eric Bobrow , Yi Li

Recently, the possibility of high-temperature superconductivity (SC) in flat-band (FB) systems has been the focus of a great deal of activity. This study reveals that unlike conventional intra-band SC for which disorder has a dramatic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-09 Georges Bouzerar , Maxime Thumin

Motivated by the recent experimental realizations of hyperbolic lattices in circuit quantum electrodynamics and in classical electric-circuit networks, we study flat bands and band-touching phenomena in such lattices. We analyze…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Tomáš Bzdušek , Joseph Maciejko

We treat elementary excitations, the spin-liquid state, and the anomalous Hall effect (including the quantum one in purely 2D situation) in layered highly correlated systems. The mechanisms of the formation of a topological state associated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-02 V. Yu. Irkhin , Yu. N. Skryabin