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The geometric properties of a lattice can have profound consequences on its band spectrum. For example, symmetry constraints and geometric frustration can give rise to topologicially nontrivial and dispersionless bands, respectively.…

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Topological photonics provides a powerful framework to describe and understand many nontrivial wave phenomena in complex electromagnetic platforms. The topological index of a physical system is an abstract global property that depends on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-05 Mario G. Silveirinha

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

Moir\'e-pattern based potential engineering has become an important way to explore exotic physics in a variety of two-dimensional condensed matter systems. While these potentials have induced correlated phenomena in almost all commonly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-19 Mohammed M. Al Ezzi , Junxiong Hu , Ariando , Francisco Guinea , Shaffique Adam

We propose a tunable optical setup to engineer topologically nontrivial flat bands in twisted bilayer graphene under circularly polarized light. Using both analytical and numerical calculations, we demonstrate that nearly flat bands can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-18 Yantao Li , H. A. Fertig , Babak Seradjeh

Motivated by the phenomenology in the condensed-matter flat-band Dirac systems, we here construct a holographic model that imprints the symmetry breaking pattern of a rather simple Dirac fermion model at zero chemical potential.In the bulk…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-20 Nicolás Grandi , Vladimir Juričić , Ignacio Salazar Landea , Rodrigo Soto-Garrido

Quantum metric, a fundamental component of quantum geometry, has attracted broad interest in recent years due to its critical role in various quantum phenomena. Meanwhile, band topology, which serves as an important framework in condensed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Xun-Jiang Luo , Xing-Lei Ma , K. T. Law

Two-dimensional lattice models subjected to an external effective magnetic field can form nontrivial band topologies characterized by nonzero integer band Chern numbers. In this Letter, we investigate such a lattice model originating from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-11-01 Dong Wang , Zhao Liu , Junpeng Cao , Heng Fan

At magic twisted angles, Dirac cones in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) can evolve into flat bands, serving as a critical playground for the study of strongly correlated physics. When chiral symmetry is introduced, rigorous mathematical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-11 Fan Cui , Congcong Le , Qiang Zhang , Xianxin Wu , Jiangping Hu , Ching-Kai Chiu

A large number of recent works point to the emergence of intriguing analogs of fractional quantum Hall states in lattice models due to effective interactions in nearly flat bands with Chern number C=1. Here, we provide an intuitive and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-01 Maximilian Trescher , Emil J. Bergholtz

The concept of topological fermions, including Weyl and Dirac fermions, stems from the quantum Hall state induced by a magnetic field, but the definitions and classifications of topological fermions are formulated without using magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-30 Y. X. Zhao , Y. Lu , Hai-Zhou Lu

Most fractional quantum Hall states have been traditionally identified within a single energy band, such as the lowest Landau level or topological flat band. As more particles are introduced, they inevitably populate higher energy bands.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-21 Licheng Wang , Dong-Hao Guan , Ai-Lei He , Shun-Li Yu , Yuan Zhou

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

Topological states of matter, first discovered in quantum systems, have opened new avenues for wave manipulation beyond the quantum realm. In elastic media, realizing these topological effects requires identifying lattices that support the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-24 Pegah Azizi , Rahul Dev Kundu , Weichen Li , Kai Sun , Xiaojia Shelly Zhang , Stefano Gonella

We experimentally investigate the band structures of chirally twisted triple bilayer graphene. The new kind of moir\'e structure, formed by three pieces of helically stacked Bernal bilayer graphene, has flat bands at charge neutral point…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Wenlu Lin , Wenxuan Wang , Shimin Cao , Miao Liang , Lili Zhao , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jinhua Gao , Jianhao Chen , Xiaobo Lu , Yang Liu

Quantum materials constitute a novel category of substances wherein quantum effects and electron-electron (e-e) interactions give rise to unforeseen phenomena on a macroscopic scale. Of particular interest within the realm of quantum…

Though several theoretical models have been proposed to design electronic flat-bands, the definite experimental realization in two-dimensional atomic crystal is still lacking. Here we propose a novel and realistic flat-band model based on…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-04 Jiang Zeng , Ming Lu , Haiwen Liu , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie

Flat bands and nontrivial topological physics are two important topics of condensed matter physics. With a unique stacking configuration analogous to the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, rhombohedral graphite (RG) is a potential candidate…

We consider a holographic theory as a Ginzberg-Landau theory working for strongly interacting system near the quantum critical point: we take the bulk matter field $\Phi^I(r,x)$, the dual of the fermion bilinear, as the order parameter. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Eunseok Oh , Yunseok Seo , Taewon Yuk , Sang-Jin Sin

Topological materials have become the focus of intense research in recent years, since they exhibit fundamentally new physical phenomena with potential applications for novel devices and quantum information technology. One of the hallmarks…

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