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We study the quantization of the motion of a charged particle without spin inside a flat box under a static electromagnetic field. Contrary to Landau's solution with constant magnetic field transverse to the box, we found a non separable…
Flat bands underlie a diverse range of quantum phenomena, from strongly correlated phases to superconductivity. We theoretically establish that a two-dimensional electron gas under a linear magnetic-field gradient and a transverse electric…
The origin of non-dispersive flat band modes for a quasi-one dimensional square-kagome ladder network is explored analytically by virtue of the real space renormalization group (RSRG) technique. A section of the eigenstates is non-diffusive…
Certain lattice wave systems in translationally invariant settings have one or more spectral bands that are strictly flat or independent of momentum in the tight binding approximation, arising from either internal symmetries or fine-tuned…
This paper presents a theory of interaction-induced band-flattening in strongly correlated electron systems. We begin by illustrating an inherent connection between flat bands and index theorems, and presenting a generic prescription for…
We show that the continuum limit of moir\'e graphene is described by a $(2+1)$-dimensional field theory of Dirac fermions coupled to two classical vector fields: a periodic gauge and spin field. We further show that the existence of a flat…
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…
We consider a class of conformal models describing closed strings in axially symmetric stationary magnetic flux tube backgrounds. These models are closed string analogs of the Landau model of a particle in a magnetic field or the model of…
When two graphene layers are rotated from AA or AB configuration by a small angle, the band structure changes dramatically. Numerical calculations have shown that, at certain discrete angles called magic angles, the low energy bands become…
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…
Topological flat bands (FBs) offer an ideal platform for realizing exotic topological phases, such as fractional Chern insulators, yet their realization with both exact flatness and stable topology in local lattice models has been long…
Moir\'e materials provide a highly tunable environment for the realization of band structures with engineered physical properties. Specifically, moir\'e structures with Fermi surface flat bands - a synthetic environment for the realization…
Plateaus can be observed in the zero-temperature magnetization curve of quantum spin systems at rational values of the magnetization. In one dimension, the appearance of a plateau is controlled by a quantization condition for the…
Dispersionless flat bands are proposed to be a fundamental ingredient to achieve the various sought after quantum states of matter including high-temperature superconductivity1-4 and fractional quantum Hall effect5-6. Materials with such…
Some materials can have the dispersionless parts in their electronic spectra. These parts are usually called flat bands and generate the corps of unusual physical properties of such materials. These flat bands are induced by the…
According to the Onsager's semiclassical quantization rule, the Landau levels of a band are bounded by its upper and lower band edges at zero magnetic field. However, there are two notable systems where the Landau level spectra violate this…
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…
We demonstrate, by explicit construction, that a single band tight binding Hamiltonian defined on a class of deterministic fractals of the b = 3N Sierpinski type can give rise to an infinity of dispersionless, flat-band like states which…
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…
Flat bands imply lack of itinerancy due to some constraints that, in principle, results in anomalous behaviors with randomness. By a molecular orbital (MO) representation of the flat band systems, random MO models are introduced where the…