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We study the effect of infinitesimal onsite disorder on d-dimensional all bands flat lattices. The lattices are generated from diagonal Hamiltonians by a sequence of (d + 1) local unitary transformations parametrized by angles ${\theta}_i$.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-11-24 Tilen Cadez , Yeongjun Kim , Alexei Andreanov , Sergej Flach

We investigate the influence of quasiperiodic modulations on one-dimensional non-Hermitian diamond lattices with an artificial magnetic flux $\theta$ that possess flat bands. Our study shows that the symmetry of these modulations and the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-10-17 Hui Liu , Zhanpeng Lu , Xu Xia , Zhihao Xu

Disorder in moire superlattices simultaneously degrades flat-band localization and induces Anderson localization, yet how these two regimes interact has remained unclear. Here, we introduce a combined framework linking localization-length…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-04-23 Qian Liu , Xiaoshuang Xia , Junjie Wang , Peilong Hong , Lei Xu , Lujun Huang , Daohong Song , Yi Liang

We study temperature induced metal-insulator transition in doped ferromagnetic semiconductors, described by s-d exchange model. The transition is a result of the mobility edge movement, the disorder being due to magnetic ions spin density…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Eugene Kogan , Mark Auslender

In disordered lattices, itinerant electrons typically undergo Anderson localization due to random phase interference, which suppresses their motion. By contrast, in flat-band systems where electrons are intrinsically localized owing to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Zhe Hou , Hailong Li , Qing Yan , Yu-Hang Li , Hua Jiang

We have examined the behaviour of noninteracting electrons moving on a corner-sharing tetrahedral lattice into which we introduce a uniform (box) distribution, of width W, of random on-site energies. We have used both the relative…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Fazileh , X. Chen , R. J. Gooding , K. V. Tabunshchyk

Altermagnetism, a recently discovered magnetic phase characterized by spin-split bands without net magnetization, has emerged as promising platform for novel physics and potential applications. However, its stability against…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Chang-An Li , Bo Fu , Huaiming Guo , Björn Trauzettel , Song-Bo Zhang

Certain tight binding lattices host macroscopically degenerate flat spectral bands. Their origin is rooted in local symmetries of the lattice, with destructive interference leading to the existence of compact localized eigenstates. We study…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-01-13 Daniel Leykam , Joshua D. Bodyfelt , Anton S. Desyatnikov , Sergej Flach

We study the Anderson localization in a weakly coupled multilayer system with a strong magnetic field perpendicular to the layers. The phase diagram of 1/3 flux quanta per plaquette is obtained. The phase diagram shows that a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 X. R. Wang , C. Y. Wong , X. C. Xie

We investigate the ground-state properties of one-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii flat-band lattices. We uncover a geometry-driven phase transition into a macroscopically degenerate nematic state with broken time reversal symmetry. Focusing on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-08 Yeongjun Kim , Oleg I. Utesov , Alexei Andreanov , Mikhail V. Fistul , Sergej Flach

We study the electron transport in a deformable lattice modeled in the semiclassical approximation as a discrete nonlinear elastic chain where acoustic phonons are in thermal equilibrium at temperature T. We reveal that an effective dynamic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-08-29 A. V. Savin , Y. S. Kivshar , M. I. Molina

A zero temperature Anderson-Mott transition driven by spin disorder can be `tuned' by an applied magnetic field to achieve colossal magnetoconductance. Usually this is not possible since spin disorder by itself cannot localise a high…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Pinaki Majumdar , Sanjeev Kumar

Emerging experimental platforms use amorphousness, a constrained form of disorder, to tailor meta-material properties. We study localization under this type of disorder in a family of 2D models generalizing recent experiments on photonic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-08-19 Elizabeth J. Dresselhaus , Alexander Avdoshkin , Zhetao Jia , Matteo Secli , Boubacar Kante , Joel E. Moore

We show that in presence of a deformable lattice potential, the nature of the disorder-driven metal-insulator transition (MIT) is fundamentally changed with respect to the non-interacting (Anderson) scenario. For strong disorder, even a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-01-25 Domenico Di Sante , Simone Fratini , Vladimir Dobrosavljević , Sergio Ciuchi

We follow the evolution of dressed coupled mini-bands as a function of an AC field intensity, non perturbatively, for a wide field frequency range. High and low frequency limits are characterized by two different dynamic localization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. H. Rivera , P. A. Schulz

We study the effect of quasiperiodic Aubry-Andr\'e disorder on the energy spectrum and eigenstates of a one-dimensional all-bands-flat (ABF) diamond chain. The ABF diamond chain possesses three dispersionless flat bands with all the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-01-24 Aamna Ahmed , Ajith Ramachandran , Ivan M. Khaymovich , Auditya Sharma

Magnetism is a prototypical phenomenon of quantum collective state, and has found ubiquitous applications in semiconductor technologies such as dynamic random access memory (DRAM). In conventional materials, it typically arises from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-12 Yongjin Lee , Shi Che , Jairo Velasco , David Tran , Jacopo Baima , Francesco Mauri , Matteo Calandra , Marc Bockrath , Chun Ning Lau

We have investigated the healing of transient disordered vortex states injected into a superconducting sample during the field ramping process in isothermal M-H measurements as a prescription to comprehend the modulation in the state of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 A. D. Thakur , D. Pal , M. J. Higgins , S. Ramakrishnan , A. K. Grover

We report a metal-insulator transition (MIT) in the half-filled multiorbital antiferromagnet (AF) BaMn$_2$Bi$_2$ that is tunable by a magnetic field perpendicular to the AF sublattices. Instead of an Anderson-Mott mechanism usually expected…

We propose and investigate a novel two-dimensional (2D) tight-binding model defined on a diamond-dodecagon lattice geometry that hosts multiple flat bands (FBs) and supports topological phase transitions driven by a magnetic flux. This…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-16 Joydeep Majhi , Biplab Pal
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