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Flat bands, when located close to the Fermi energy, can considerably enhance the influence of electron correlations on the low energy physics in kagome and other frustrated-lattice metals. A major challenge in describing the interaction…

Landau suggested that the low-temperature properties of metals can be understood in terms of long-lived quasiparticles with all complex interactions included in Fermi-liquid parameters, such as the effective mass $m^{\star}$. Despite its…

We present a systematic investigation of all sixteen marginally relevant fermion-fermion interactions in two-dimensional time-reversal symmetry-breaking kagom\'{e} semimetals hosting a quadratic band crossing point. Employing a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-28 Yi-Kun Fang , Jing Wang

Graphene antidot lattices have recently been proposed as a new breed of graphene-based superlattice structures. We study electronic properties of triangular antidot lattices, with emphasis on the occurrence of dispersionless (flat) bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-16 Mihajlo Vanevic , Vladimir M. Stojanovic , Markus Kindermann

We develop a tight-binding model description of semi-Dirac electronic spectra, with highly anisotropic dispersion around point Fermi surfaces, recently discovered in electronic structure calculations of VO$_2$/TiO$_2$ nano-heterostructures.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Banerjee , R. R. P. Singh , V. Pardo , W. E. Pickett

While multiband systems are usually considered for flat-band physics, here we study one-band models that have flat portions in the dispersion to explore correlation effects in the 2D repulsive Hubbard model in an intermediate coupling…

Kagome metals offer a unique platform for investigating robust electron-correlation effects because of their lattice geometry, flat bands and multi-orbital nature. In the cases with active flat bands, recent theoretical studies have pointed…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-18 Fang Xie , Yuan Fang , Ying Li , Yuefei Huang , Lei Chen , Chandan Setty , Shouvik Sur , Boris Yakobson , Roser Valentí , Qimiao Si

Interaction in a flat band is magnified due to the divergence in the density of states, which gives rise to a variety of many-body phenomena such as ferromagnetism and Wigner crystallization. Until now, however, most studies of the flat…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-01 Yuanping Chen , Shenglong Xu , Yuee Xie , Chengyong Zhong , Congjun Wu , S. B. Zhang

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

Electronic flat band systems are a fertile platform to host correlation-induced quantum phenomena such as unconventional superconductivity, magnetism and topological orders. While flat band has been established in geometrically frustrated…

We provide a comprehensive theoretical investigation of the Fermi liquid quasiparticle description in two-dimensional electron gas interacting via the long-range Coulomb interaction by calculating the electron self-energy within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-16 Seongjin Ahn , Sankar Das Sarma

Theoretically, it is commonly held that in metals near a nematic quantum critical point the electronic excitations become incoherent on the entire `hot' Fermi surface, triggering non Fermi liquid behavior. However, such conclusions are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-01 I. Paul , M. Garst

Specific properties, such as surface Fermi arcs, features of quantum oscillations and of various responses to a magnetic field, distinguish Dirac semimetals from ordinary materials. These properties are determined by Dirac points at which a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Grigorii P. Mikitik

Flat electronic bands are expected to show proportionally enhanced electron correlations, which may generate a plethora of novel quantum phases and unusual low-energy excitations. They are increasingly being pursued in $d$-electron-based…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-21 Lei Chen , Fang Xie , Shouvik Sur , Haoyu Hu , Silke Paschen , Jennifer Cano , Qimiao Si

Multilayer graphene systems with a rhombohedral stacking order harbor nearly flat bands in their single-particle spectrum. We propose ansatz states to describe the surface-localized states of flat band electrons. The absence of kinetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-10 Hao Wang , Jin-Hua Gao , Fu-Chun Zhang

In this paper, the sixth in series, we continue our analysis of the interplay between non-Fermi liquid and pairing in the effective low-energy model of fermions with singular dynamical interaction $V(\Omega_m) = {\bar…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-11-03 Shang-Shun Zhang , Yi-Ming Wu , Artem Abanov , Andrey V. Chubukov

Type-II semi-Dirac fermions in two dimensions have been proposed to describe topologically nontrivial low-energy excitations in titanium/vanadium oxide heterostructures. These quasiparticles appear at the merger of three Dirac cones,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-19 Mohamed M. Elsayed , Taras I. Lakoba , Valeri N. Kotov

The notion of an electronic flat band refers to a collectively degenerate set of quantum mechanical eigenstates in periodic solids. The vanishing kinetic energy of flat bands relative to the electron-electron interaction is expected to…

We analyze quantum fluctuation effects at the onset of charge or spin density wave order with a $2k_F$ wave vector $\mathbf{Q}$ in two-dimensional metals -- for the special case where $\mathbf{Q}$ connects a pair of hot spots situated at…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-08 Lukas Debbeler , Walter Metzner

Strong electron correlations can give rise to extraordinary properties of metals with renormalized quasiparticles which are at the basis of Landau's Fermi liquid theory. Near a quantum critical point, these quasiparticles can be destroyed…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-05 S. Seiro , L. Jiao , S. Kirchner , S. Hartmann , S. Friedemann , C. Krellner , C. Geibel , Q. Si , F. Steglich , S. Wirth