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Transition waves in mechanical metamaterials manifest themselves as propagating interfaces between different stable states in lattices composed of arrays of coupled, intrinsically bistable elements. Here, we show experimentally and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Eleonore Duval , Giada Risso , Alex Zhang , Vincent Tournat , Katia Bertoldi

Motivated by recent theoretical and experimental studies on the role of flatbands in the thermoelectric properties of Ni$_3$In$_{1-x}$Sn$_x$ compounds, we investigate electron transport in two minimal one-dimensional flatband models, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-20 F. Cosco , R. Tuovinen , F. Plastina , N. Lo Gullo

Within periodic materials and structures, wave scattering and dispersion occur across constituent material interfaces leading to a banded frequency response. In an earlier paper, the elastodynamics of one-dimensional periodic materials and…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-19 M. I. Hussein , G. M. Hulbert , R. A. Scott

The geometric properties of a lattice can have profound consequences on its band spectrum. For example, symmetry constraints and geometric frustration can give rise to topologicially nontrivial and dispersionless bands, respectively.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-25 Christie S. Chiu , Da-Shuai Ma , Zhi-Da Song , B. Andrei Bernevig , Andrew A. Houck

We introduce a two-dimensional generalisation of the quasiperiodic Aubry-Andr\'e model. Even though this model exhibits the same duality relation as the one-dimensional version, its localisation properties are found to be substantially more…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-02-20 Attila Szabó , Ulrich Schneider

We perform molecular dynamics simulations on an interacting electron gas confined to a cylindrical surface and subject to a radial magnetic field and the field of the positive background. In order to study the system at lowest energy states…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Vishal Mehra , Jayme De Luca

We demonstrate that the transport characteristics of deep optical lattices with one or multiple off-resonant external energy offsets can be greatly-enhanced by modulating the lattice depth in an exotic way. We derive effective stationary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-22 R. A. Pepino , W. P. Teh , L. J. Magness

Electrons in condensed matter may transition into a variety of broken-symmetry phase states due to electron-electron interactions. Applying diverse mean-field approximations to the interaction term is arguably the simplest way to identify…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-17 Maxim Trushin , Liangtao Peng , Gargee Sharma , Giovanni Vignale , Shaffique Adam

We investigate thermodynamic operation of a quasiperiodic lattice with an exact mobility edge, described by the Biddle--Das Sarma model. We use this model as the working medium of a quantum Otto cycle and map its operating mode as a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-10 Ao Zhou , Shujie Cheng , Gao Xianlong

Electronic flat bands can lead to rich many-body quantum phases by quenching the electron's kinetic energy and enhancing many-body correlation. The reduced bandwidth can be realized by either destructive quantum interference in frustrated…

Photonic analogs of the moir\'e superlattices mediated by interlayer electromagnetic coupling are expected to give rise to rich phenomena such as nontrivial flatband topology. Here, we propose and demonstrate a scheme to tune the flatbands…

Optics · Physics 2023-09-29 Peilong Hong , Yi Liang , Zhigang Chen , Guoquan Zhang

We consider quantum scattering of particles in media exhibiting strong dispersion degeneracy. In particular, we study flat-banded lattices and linearly dispersed energy bands. The former constitute a prime example of single-particle…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-04-05 Manuel Valiente , Nikolaj Thomas Zinner

A flatband material is a system characterized by energy bands with zero dispersion, allowing for the compact localization of wavefunctions in real space. This compact localization significantly enhances inter-particle correlations and…

One-dimensional (1D) graphene superlattices have been predicted to exhibit zero-energy modes a decade ago, but an experimental proof has remained missing. Motivated by a recent experiment that could possibly shed light on this, here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-15 Wun-Hao Kang , Szu-Chao Chen , Ming-Hao Liu

The electronic transport properties of graphene-based superlattice structures are investigated. A graphene-based modulation-doped superlattice structure geometry is proposed and consist of periodically arranged alternate layers:…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-25 Dima Bolmatov , Chung-Yu Mou

We investigate the emergence and corresponding nature of exceptional points located on exceptional hyper-surfaces of non-hermitian transfer matrices for finite-range one-dimensional lattice models. We unravel the non-trivial role of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-01 Madhumita Saha , Manas Kulkarni , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla

Quantum-confined semiconductor structures are the cornerstone of modern-day electronics. Spatial confinement in these structures leads to formation of discrete low-dimensional subbands. At room temperature, carriers transfer among different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-14 I. Knezevic , E. B. Ramayya , D. Vasileska , S. M. Goodnick

Possibility of flat-band ferromagnetism in quantum dot arrays is theoretically discussed. By using a quantum dot as a building block, quantum dot superlattices are possible. We consider dot arrays on Lieb and kagome lattices known to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Hiroyuki Tamura , Kenji Shiraishi , Takashi Kimura , Hideaki Takayanagi

In a dissipationless linear lattice, spatial disorder or incommensurate modulation induce localization of the lattice eigenstates and block spreading of wave packets. Additionally, incommensurate arrays allow for the metal-insulator…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-12-02 T. V. Laptyeva , S. V. Denisov , G. V. Osipov , M. V. Ivanchenko

Commensurability oscillations in the magnetoresistivity of a two-dimensional electron gas in a two-dimensional lateral superlattice are studied in the framework of quasiclassical transport theory. It is assumed that the impurity scattering…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 A. D. Mirlin , E. Tsitsishvili , P. Woelfle