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In this Letter, we study topological flat bands with distinct features that deviate from conventional Landau level behavior. We show that even in the ideal quantum geometry limit, moire flat band systems can exhibit physical phenomena…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-27 Siddhartha Sarkar , Xiaohan Wan , Ang-Kun Wu , Shi-Zeng Lin , Kai Sun

Topological flat bands play an essential role in inducing exotic interacting physics, ranging from fractional Chern insulators to superconductivity, in moir\'e materials. In this work, we propose a design principle for realizing topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Yunzhe Liu , Anoj Aryal , Kaijie Yang , Dumitru Calugaru , Zhenyao Fang , Haoyu Hu , Qimin Yan , B. Andrei Bernevig , Chao-xing Liu

Berry curvature physics and quantum geometric effects have been instrumental in advancing topological condensed matter physics in recent decades. Although Landau level-based flat bands and conventional 3D solids have been pivotal in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 Pratap Chandra Adak , Subhajit Sinha , Amit Agarwal , Mandar M. Deshmukh

Moir\'e patterns are omnipresent. They are important for any overlapping periodic phenomenon, from vibrational and electromagnetic, to condensed matter. Here we show, both theoretically and via experimental simulations by ultracold atoms,…

Moir\'e structures formed by twisting three layers of graphene with two independent twist angles present an ideal platform for studying correlated quantum phenomena, as an infinite set of angle pairs is predicted to exhibit flat bands.…

Topological flat bands in two-dimensional (2D) moir\'e materials have emerged as promising platforms for exploring the interplay between topology and correlation effects. However, realistic calculations of moir\'e band topology using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Yunzhe Liu , Ethan Angerhofer , Kaijie Yang , Chao-Xing Liu , Jiabin Yu

Topological electronic flatten bands near or at the Fermi level are a promising avenue towards unconventional superconductivity and correlated insulating states. However, the related experiments are mostly limited to the engineered…

We investigate the physics of photonic band structures of the moir\'e patterns that emerged when overlapping two uni-dimensional (1D) photonic crystal slabs with mismatched periods. The band structure of our system is a result of the…

We show that, quite generally, quantum geometry plays a major role in determining the low-energy physics in strongly correlated lattice models at fractional band fillings. We identify limits in which the Fubini Study metric dictates the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-15 Ahmed Abouelkomsan , Kang Yang , Emil J. Bergholtz

Recently, artificial moire superlattices of classical waves have aroused tremendous interest, inspired by the newly emergent twistronics that focuses on the peculiar electronic properties induced by flat bands. However, so far, the moire…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-28 Tingzhi Liu , Xingjian Zhang , Qicheng Zhang , Xiying Fan , Fengcheng Wu , Chunyin Qiu

Flat band materials such as the kagome metals or moir\'e superlattice systems are of intense current interest. Flat bands can result from the electron motion on numerous (special) lattices and usually exhibit topological properties. Their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-28 Joseph G. Checkelsky , B. Andrei Bernevig , Piers Coleman , Qimiao Si , Silke Paschen

In moir\'e superlattices, the band flatness governs the degree of wave localization, which is central to harnessing emergent phenomena and designing functional meta-devices. While research has focused on the magic conditions such as magic…

Some materials can have the dispersionless parts in their electronic spectra. These parts are usually called flat bands and generate the corps of unusual physical properties of such materials. These flat bands are induced by the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-22 V. R. Shaginyan , A. Z. Msezane , V. A. Stephanovich , G. S. Japaridze , E. V. Kirichenko

Several moir\'e systems created by various twisted bilayers have manifested magnetism under flatband conditions leading to enhanced interaction effects. We theoretically study stability of moir\'e flatband ferromagnetism against collective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-15 Fengcheng Wu , S. Das Sarma

Flat bands correspond to the spatial localization of a quantum particle moving in a field with discrete or continuous translational invariance. The canonical example is the flat Landau levels in a homogeneous magnetic field. Several…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-11 Alireza Parhizkar , Victor Galitski

Moir\'e materials host a wealth of intertwined correlated and topological states of matter, all arising from flat electronic bands with nontrivial quantum geometry. A prominent example is the family of alternating-twist magic-angle graphene…

When the electronic dispersion in a material is independent of momentum, it gives rise to strongly correlated flat bands, with the single particle energy, quenched. Though the notion of flat bands had been known since long, their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-12 Madhuparna Karmakar

A moir\'{e} system is formed when two periodic structures have a slightly mismatched period, resulting in unusual strongly correlated states in the presence of particle-particle interactions. The periodic structures can arise from the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-01 R. Wang , Z. Song

Recent studies on topological flat bands and their fractional states have revealed increasing similarities between moir\'e flat bands and Landau levels (LLs). For instance, like the lowest LL, topological exact flat bands with ideal quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Siddhartha Sarkar , Xiaohan Wan , Yitong Zhang , Kai Sun

Topological flat bands at the Fermi level offer a promising platform to study a variety of intriguing correlated phase of matter. Here we present band engineering in the twisted orbital-active bilayers with spin-orbit coupling. The symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-15 Huan Wang , Yadong Jiang , Zhaochen Liu , Jing Wang
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