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Transport experiments in twisted bilayer graphene revealed multiple superconducting domes separated by correlated insulating states. These properties are generally associated with strongly correlated states in a flat mini-band of the…

Flat bands result in a divergent density of states and high sensitivity to interactions in physical systems. While such bands are well known in systems under magnetic fields, their realization and behavior in zero-field settings remain…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-05 Chen-Xin Jiang , Zi-Xiang Hu , Bo Yang

Flexible long period moir\' e superlattices form in two-dimensional van der Waals crystals containing layers that differ slightly in lattice constant or orientation. In this Letter we show theoretically that isolated flat moir\' e bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-12 Fengcheng Wu , Timothy Lovorn , Emanuel Tutuc , A. H. MacDonald

A singular flat band(SFB), a distinct class of the flat band, has been shown to exhibit various intriguing material properties characterized by a geometric quantity of the Bloch wave function called the quantum distance. We present a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-02 Hyeongseop Kim , Chang-geun Oh , Jun-Won Rhim

We introduce a non-Abelian kagome lattice model that has both time-reversal and inversion symmetries and study the flat band physics and topological phases of this model. Due to the coexistence of both time-reversal and inversion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-01 Zhenxiang Gao , Zhihao Lan

1$T$-TaS$_2$ is the only insulating transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) with an odd number of electrons per unit cell. This insulating state is non-magnetic, making it a potential spin-liquid candidate. The unusual electronic behavior…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-28 Amir Dalal , Jonathan Ruhman , Jörn W. F. Venderbos

We propose a Haldane-like model of dice lattice analogous to graphene and explore its topological properties within the tight-binding formalism. The topological phase boundary of the system is identical to that of Haldane model of graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-04 Bashab Dey , Priyadarshini Kapri , Ojasvi Pal , Tarun Kanti Ghosh

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

A model for two-dimensional electronic, photonic, and mechanical metamaterial systems is presented, which has flat one-dimensional zero-mode energy bands and stable localized states of a topological origin confined within twin boundaries,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 Linghua Zhu , Emil Prodan , Keun Hyuk Ahn

We study the influence of strong spin-orbit interaction on the formation of flat bands in relaxed twisted bilayer WSe$_2$. Flat bands, well separated in energy, emerge at the band edges for twist angles ($\theta$) near 0$^{\circ}$ and…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-23 Sudipta Kundu , Mit H. Naik , H. R. Krishnamurthy , Manish Jain

Topological flat bands have gained extensive interest as a platform for exploring the interplay between nontrivial band topology and correlation effects. In recent studies, strongly correlated phenomena originating from a topological flat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-25 Sogen Ikegami , Kiyu Fukui , Shun Okumura , Yasuyuki Kato , Yukitoshi Motome

Flat bands, characterized by zero group velocity and strong energy localization, enable interaction-enhanced phenomena across both quantum and classical systems. Existing photonic flat-band implementations were limited to evanescent-wave…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-17 Han-Rong Xia , Ziyao Wang , Yunrui Wang , Zhen Gao , Meng Xiao

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

We report results of systematic analysis of various modes in the flatband lattice, based on the diamond-chain model with the on-site cubic nonlinearity, and its double version with the linear on-site mixing between the two lattice fields.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-08-02 Krzysztof B. Zegadlo , Nir Dror , Nguyen Viet Hung , Marek Trippenbach , Boris A. Malomed

The increased ability to engineer two-dimensional (2D) systems, either using materials, photonic lattices, or cold atoms, has led to the search for 2D structures with interesting properties. One such property is the presence of flat bands.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-05 Jun-Hyung Bae , Tigran Sedrakyan , Saurabh Maiti

In this work, we develop a systematic method of constructing flat-band models with and without band crossings. Our construction scheme utilizes the symmetry and spatial shape of a compact localized state (CLS) and also the singularity of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-26 Yoonseok Hwang , Jun-Won Rhim , Bohm-Jung Yang

We study the effect of Haldane flux in the bilayer $\alpha$-$\mathcal{T}_3$ lattice system, considering possible non-equivalent, commensurate stacking configurations with a tight-binding formalism. The bilayer $\alpha$-$\mathcal{T}_3$…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-24 Puspita Parui , Sovan Ghosh , Bheema Lingam Chittari

Flat-bands play a central role in the presence of correlated phases in Moir\'e and other modulated two dimensional systems. In this work, flat-bands are shown to exist in uniaxially periodic strained graphene. Such strain should be produced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-05 Elias Andrade , Florentino López-Urías , Gerardo G. Naumis

We consider ultracold atoms in a two-dimensional optical lattice of the dice geometry in a tight-binding regime. The atoms experience a laser-assisted tunneling between the nearest neighbour sites of the dice lattice accompanied by the…

We elaborate the first theoretical realization of two dimensional itinerant topological magnons, based on the quarter filled Haldane-Hubbard model with a nearly-flat electron band. By using the exact diagonalization method with a projection…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-27 Zhao-Long Gu , Zhao-Yang Dong , Shun-Li Yu , Jian-Xin Li