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Flat bands near M points in the Brillouin zone are key features of honeycomb symmetry in artificial graphene (AG) where electrons may condense into novel correlated phases. Here we report the observation of van Hove singularity doublet of…

We construct quasi one-dimensional topological and non-topological three-band lattices with tunable band gap and winding number of the flat band. Using mean field (MF) and exact density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) calculations, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-10-11 Si Min Chan , B. Grémaud , G. G. Batrouni

We study non-Hermitian photonic lattices that exhibit competition between conservative and non-Hermitian (gain/loss) couplings. A bipartite sublattice symmetry enforces the existence of non-Hermitian flat bands, which are typically embedded…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-30 Daniel Leykam , Sergej Flach , Y. D. Chong

We illustrate the possibility of realizing band gaps in graphene-like systems that fall outside the existing classification of gapped Dirac Hamiltonians in terms of masses. As our primary example we consider a band gap arising due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-31 Thomas Iadecola , Titus Neupert , Claudio Chamon

Flat bands have become a pillar of modern condensed matter physics and photonics owing to the vanishing group velocity and diverging density of states. Here, we present a paradigmatic scheme to construct arbitrary flat bands on demand by…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-27 Moru Song , Jingyu Hu , Lina Shi , YongliangZhang , Kai Chang

Twisted bilayer graphene displays insulating and superconducting phases caused by exceptional flattening of its lowest energy bands. Superconductivity with highest $T_c$ appears at hole and electron dopings, near half-filling for valence or…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-06-29 Dmitry V. Chichinadze , Laura Classen , Andrey V. Chubukov

It is shown that a non-magnetic metallic band in the presence of an antiferromagnetic background coupled only by the exchange interaction develops a superconducting instability similar to the one described by BCS theory plus additional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-09-03 Fernando A. Reboredo

We demonstrate that flat bands with local Berry curvature arise naturally in chiral (ABC) multilayer graphene placed on a boron nitride (BN) substrate. The degree of flatness can be tuned by varying the number of graphene layers N. For N =…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-24 Akshay Kumar , Rahul Nandkishore

Within ten years, flat band (FB) superconductivity has gained a huge interest for its remarkable features and connection to quantum geometry. We investigate the superconductivity in a FB system whose orbitals are inequivalent and in which…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-09 M. Thumin , G. Bouzerar

Twist bilayer graphenes with magical angle have nearly flat band, which become strongly correlated electron systems. Herein, we propose another system based on strained bilayer graphene that have flat band at the intrinsic Fermi level. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-28 Ma Luo

Flat bands in moir\'e superlattices provide a fertile ground for correlated and topological phases, governed by their quantum geometric properties. While the valley-based paradigm captures key features in select materials, it breaks down in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Xiaoting Zhou , Yi-Chun Hung , Arun Bansil

Rhombohedral graphene multilayers host various broken-symmetry metallic phases as well as superconductors whose pairing mechanism and order parameter symmetry remain unsettled. Strikingly, experiments have revealed prominent new…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-08 Zhiyu Dong , Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise , Jason Alicea

We report electric field-controlled modulation of the Fermi surface topology and explore its effects on the superconducting state in alternating-angle twisted quadrilayer graphene (TQG). The unique combination of flat and dispersive bands…

The adsorption of an alkali-metal submonolayer on graphene occupying every third hexagon of the honeycomb lattice in a commensurate $(\sqrt{3}\times\sqrt{3})R30^\circ$ arrangement induces an energy gap in the spectrum of graphene. To…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-01-27 M. Farjam , H. Rafii-Tabar

We show that an internal localization mobility edge can appear around the Fermi energy in graphene by introducing impurities in the split-band regimen, or by producing vacancies in the lattice. The edge appears at the center of the spectrum…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-02-04 G. G. Naumis

Systems hosting flat bands offer a powerful platform for exploring strong correlation physics. Theoretically topological degeneracy rising in systems with non-trivial topological orders on periodic manifolds of non-zero genus can generate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-07 Yuge Chen , Hui Yu , Yun-Peng Huang , Zhen-Yu Zheng , Jiangping Hu

The flat band is a key ingredient for the realization of interesting quantum states for novel functionalities. In this work, we investigate the conditions for the flat band in both monolayer and bilayer graphene under periodic strain. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-09 Xiaohan Wan , Siddhartha Sarkar , Kai Sun , Shi-Zeng Lin

Two monolayers of graphene twisted by a small `magic' angle exhibit nearly flat bands leading to correlated electronic states and superconductivity, whose precise nature including possible broken symmetries, remain under debate. Here we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-13 Jong Yeon Lee , Eslam Khalaf , Shang Liu , Xiaomeng Liu , Zeyu Hao , Philip Kim , Ashvin Vishwanath

The discovery of superconductivity and correlated electronic states in the flat bands of twisted bilayer graphene has raised a lot of excitement. Flat bands also occur in multilayer graphene flakes that present rhombohedral (ABC) stacking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Jean Paul Nery , Matteo Calandra , Francesco Mauri

We explore the use of applied electrical potentials to induce band flattening in graphene for bands near zero energy. We consider various families of doubly periodic potentials and simulate their effect on the electronic band structure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-01 Nicholas Hougland , Ranjani Ramachandran , Jeremy Levy , David Pekker