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Electrons in quantum materials exhibiting coexistence of dispersionless (flat) bands piercing dispersive (steep) bands can give rise to strongly correlated phenomena, and are associated with unconventional superconductivity. It is known…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-01 Stephen Carr , Chenyuan Li , Ziyan Zhu , Efthimios Kaxiras , Subir Sachdev , Alex Kruchkov

Multilayer rhombohedral graphene (RG) has recently emerged as a new, structurally simple flat-band system, which facilitates the exploration of interaction-driven correlation states with highly ordered electron arrangements. Despite a…

We report the theoretical discovery of a large class of 2D tight-binding models containing nearly-flat bands with nonzero Chern numbers. In contrast with previous studies, where nonlocal hoppings are usually required, the Hamiltonians of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-06-07 Kai Sun , Zheng-Cheng Gu , Hosho Katsura , S. Das Sarma

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model is extended to the three and higher dimensional systems. Nearly or absolutely flat midgap surface and hypersurface bands are predicted based on the topological analysis, which do not require fine tuning of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-23 Keun Hyuk Ahn

Flat, non-dispersive bands and topological phase transition in multiple Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains, cross-linked via periodically arranged nodal points are explored within a tight binding framework. We give analytic prescription,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-20 Sauvik Chatterjee , Sougata Biswas , and Arunava Chakrabarti

We report that the twisted few layer graphite (tFL-graphite) is a new family of moir\'{e} heterostructures (MHSs), which has richer and highly tunable moir\'{e} flat band structures entirely distinct from all the known MHSs. A tFL-graphite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-02 Zhen Ma , Shuai Li , Meng-Meng Xiao , Ya-Wen Zheng , Ming Lu , HaiWen Liu , Jin-Hua Gao , X. C. Xie

Flat band materials such as the kagome metals or moir\'e superlattice systems are of intense current interest. Flat bands can result from the electron motion on numerous (special) lattices and usually exhibit topological properties. Their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-28 Joseph G. Checkelsky , B. Andrei Bernevig , Piers Coleman , Qimiao Si , Silke Paschen

We report on the occurrence of knotted metallic band structures as stable topological phases in non-Hermitian (NH) systems. These knotted NH metals are characterized by open Fermi surfaces, known in mathematics as Seifert surfaces, that are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Johan Carlström , Marcus Stålhammar , Jan Carl Budich , Emil J. Bergholtz

Topological insulators and their intriguing edge states can be understood in a single-particle picture and can as such be exhaustively classified. Interactions significantly complicate this picture and can lead to entirely new insulating…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-10 Emil J. Bergholtz , Zhao Liu

Over the past years, one witnesses a growing interest in flat band (FB) physics which has become a playground for exotic phenomena. In this study, we address the FB superconductivity in onedimensional stub chain. In contrast to the sawtooth…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-09-21 Maxime Thumin , Georges Bouzerar

Magic angle twisted bilayer graphene has emerged as a powerful platform for studying strongly correlated electron physics, owing to its almost dispersionless low-energy bands and the ability to tune the band filling by electrostatic gating.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Nikhil Tilak , Xinyuan Lai , Shuang Wu , Zhenyuan Zhang , Mingyu Xu , Raquel de Almeida Ribeiro , Paul C Canfield , Eva Y. Andrei

Moir\'e structures formed by twisting three layers of graphene with two independent twist angles present an ideal platform for studying correlated quantum phenomena, as an infinite set of angle pairs is predicted to exhibit flat bands.…

Within ten years, flat band (FB) superconductivity has gained a huge interest for its remarkable features and connection to quantum geometry. We investigate the superconductivity in a FB system whose orbitals are inequivalent and in which…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-09 M. Thumin , G. Bouzerar

Topological flat bands (TFBs) provide a promising platform to investigate intriguing fractionalization phenomena, such as the fractional Chern insulators (FCIs). Most of TFB models are established in two-dimensional Euclidean lattices with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-30 Dong-Hao Guan , Lu Qi , Yuan Zhou , Ai-Lei He , Yi-Fei Wang

Topological media are systems whose properties are protected by topology and thus are robust to deformations of the system. In topological insulators and superconductors the bulk-surface and bulk-vortex correspondence gives rise to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-20 T. T. Heikkila , N. B. Kopnin , G. E. Volovik

The occurrence of superconducting and insulating phases is well-established in twisted graphene bilayers, and they have also been reported in other arrangements of graphene layers. We investigate three such arrangements: untwisted AB…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-11 Pierre A. Pantaleon , Tommaso Cea , Rory Brown , Niels R. Walet , Francisco Guinea

We study the unique physical properties of topological nodal-loop semimetals protected by the coexistence of time-reversal and inversion symmetries with negligible spin-orbit coupling. We argue that strong correlation effects occur at the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-03-01 Jianpeng Liu , Leon Balents

In recent years, non-Hermitian phases in classical and quantum systems have garnered significant attention. In particular, their intriguing band geometry offers a platform for exploring unique topological states and unconventional quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-10 Ayan Banerjee , Arka Bandyopadhyay , Ronika Sarkar , Awadhesh Narayan

Of the two stable forms of graphite, hexagonal (HG) and rhombohedral (RG), the former is more common and has been studied extensively. RG is less stable, which so far precluded its detailed investigation, despite many theoretical…

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