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We provide eigenvalue asymptotics for a Dirac-type operator on $\mathbb Z^n$, $n\geq 2$, perturbed by multiplication operators that decay as $|\mu|^{-\gamma}$ with $\gamma<n$. We show that the eigenvalues accumulate near the value of the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Pablo Miranda , Daniel Parra

The existence of flat bands is generally thought to be physically possible only for dimensions larger than one. However, by exciting a system with different orthogonal states this condition can be reformulated. In this work, we demonstrate…

Optics · Physics 2019-07-10 Gabriel Cáceres-Aravena , Rodrigo A. Vicencio

We study randomly coloured graphs embedded into Euclidean space, whose vertex sets are infinite, uniformly discrete subsets of finite local complexity. We construct the appropriate ergodic dynamical systems, explicitly characterise ergodic…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2007-09-07 Peter Müller , Christoph Richard

We discover a new wave localization mechanism in a periodic system without any disorder, which can produce a novel type of perfect flat band and is distinct from the known localization mechanisms, i.e., Anderson localization and flat band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-18 Zhen Ma , Wei-Jin Chen , Yuntian Chen , Jin-Hua Gao , X. C. Xie

Flat bands in lattice models have provided useful platforms for studying strong correlation and topological physics. Recently, honeycomb superlattices have been shown to host flat bands that persist in the presence of local perturbations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-15 Zihao Qi , Eric Bobrow , Yi Li

Motivated by the recent discovery of Mott insulating phase and unconventional superconductivity due to the flat bands in twisted bilayer graphene, we propose more generic ways of getting two-dimensional (2D) emergent flat band lattices…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 M. Tahir , Olivier Pinaud , Hua Chen

We consider Laplacians on periodic both discrete and metric equilateral graphs. Their spectrum consists of an absolutely continuous part (which is a union of non-degenerate spectral bands) and flat bands, i.e., eigenvalues of infinite…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-05 Evgeny Korotyaev , Natalia Saburova

We study localization and flat-band formation in lattices generated by repeated edge inflation of square, honeycomb, and triangular parent lattices. Replacing each bond by a finite tight-binding chain produces several distinct classes of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-04-15 Richard Berkovits

We propose a powerful and convenient method to systematically design flat-band lattice models, which overcomes the difficulties underlying the previous method. Especially, our method requires no elaborate calculations, applies to arbitrary…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-11-11 Youjiang Xu , Han Pu

Linear wave equations on Hamiltonian lattices with translational invariance are characterized by an eigenvalue band structure in reciprocal space. Flat band lattices have at least one of the bands completely dispersionless. Such bands are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-01-12 Ajith Ramachandran , Carlo Danieli , Sergej Flach

We study random graphs with arbitrary distributions of expected degree and derive expressions for the spectra of their adjacency and modularity matrices. We give a complete prescription for calculating the spectra that is exact in the limit…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-02-04 Raj Rao Nadakuditi , M. E. J. Newman

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

We construct a simple model for electrons in a three-dimensional crystal where a combination of short-range hopping and spin-orbit coupling results in nearly flat bands characterized by a non-trivial Z2 topological index. The flat band is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-27 C. Weeks , M. Franz

Every link is shown to be presentable as a boundary of an unknotted flat banded surface. A (flat) banded link is defined as a boundary of an unknotted (flat) banded surface. A link's (flat) band index is defined as the minimum number of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-07-19 Dongseok Kim , Young Soo Kwon , Jaeun Lee

Exact construction of one electron eigenstates with flat, non-dispersive bands, and localized over clusters of various sizes is reported for a class of quasi-one dimensional looped networks. Quasiperiodic Fibonacci and Berker fractal…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-11-20 Atanu Nandy , Arunava Chakrabarti

Let $G$ be a graph with $n$ vertices and $\lambda_n(G)$ be the least eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix of $G$. In this paper, we give sharp bounds on the least eigenvalue of graphs without given pathes or cycles and determine the extremal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-27 Mingqing Zhai , Huiqiu Lin , Shicai Gong

We construct and characterize tight binding Hamiltonians which contain a completely flat topological band made of continuum lowest Landau level wavefunctions sampled on a lattice. We find an infinite family of such Hamiltonians, with simple…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-27 Junkai Dong , Erich Mueller

We review recent progresses in the study of flat band systems, especially focusing on the fundamental physics related to the singularity of the flat band's Bloch wave functions. We first explain that the flat bands can be classified into…

Optics · Physics 2020-12-09 Jun-Won Rhim , Bohm-Jung Yang

We show how arbitrary unit cells of periodic materials can be represented as graphs whose nodes represent atoms and whose weighted edges represent tunneling connections between atoms. Further, we present methods to calculate the band…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-20 R. Gerstner

Flat bands provide a natural platform for emergent electronic states beyond Landau paradigm. Among those of particular importance are flat Chern bands, including bands of higher Chern numbers ($C$$>$$1$). We introduce a new framework for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-04 Alexander Kruchkov