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Electronic flat bands have localized Wannier-like orbitals as zero modes. In the Lieb or the kagome models, the localized orbitals satisfy a topological condition that entails two non-contractible loop eigenstates along $x/y$-axis in real…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Rui-Heng Liu , Jiangping Hu , Chen Fang

We demonstrate that a complete class of flat-band lattices with underlying commutative local symmetries exhibit a locally fragmented Hilbert space. The equitable partition theorem ensures distinct parities for the compact localized states…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-11 Eloi Nicolau , Anselmo M. Marques , Ricardo G. Dias , Verònica Ahufinger

We develop a systematic framework for constructing all-bands-flat (ABF) lattice Hamiltonians that explicitly break time-reversal symmetry (TRS). By threading magnetic flux through disconnected polygonal plaquettes and applying local…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Rohit Kishan Ray , Carlo Danieli , Alexei Andreanov , Sergej Flach

We demonstrate multiple flat bands and compact localized states (CLSs) in a photonic super-Kagome lattice (SKL) that exhibits coexistence of singular and nonsingular flat bands within its unique band structure. Specifically, we find that…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-19 Limin Song , Shenyi Gao , Jina Ma , Liqin Tang , Daohong Song , Yigang Li , Zhigang Chen

A major hurdle in understanding the phase diagram of twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) are the roles of lattice relaxation and electronic structure on isolated band flattening near magic twist angles. In this work, the authors develop an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-28 Shivesh Pathak , Tawfiqur Rakib , Run Hou , Andriy Nevidomskyy , Elif Ertekin , Harley T. Johnson , Lucas K. Wagner

We generate translationally invariant systems exhibiting many-body localization from All-Bands- Flat single particle lattice Hamiltonians dressed with suitable short-range many-body interactions. This phenomenon - dubbed Many-Body Flatband…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-29 Carlo Danieli , Alexei Andreanov , Sergej Flach

We present general design principles for engineering and discovering periodic systems with flat bands. Our paradigm exploits spin-orbit assisted orbital frustration on a lattice to produce band structures that contain multiplets of narrowly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-02 Zachariah Addison , Nandini Trivedi

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

We report the theoretical discovery of a systematic scheme to produce topological flat bands (TFBs) with arbitrary Chern numbers. We find that generically a multi-orbital high Chern number TFB model can be constructed by considering…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-01 Shuo Yang , Zheng-Cheng Gu , Kai Sun , S. Das Sarma

We report the appearance of multiple numbers of completely flat band states in an extended Lieb lattice model in two dimensions with five atomic sites per unit cell. We also show that this edge-centered square lattice can host intriguing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-07 Ankita Bhattacharya , Biplab Pal

Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) appear in a flat-band model with interactions on the saw-tooth lattice. The flat-band model includes a compact support localized eigenstates, called compact localized state (CLS). Some characteristic many-body…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-25 Yoshihito Kuno , Tomonari Mizoguchi , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

A flat band is nondispersive and formed under destructive interference. Although flat bands are found in various Hermitian systems, to realize a flat band in non-Hermitian systems is an interesting task. Here, we propose a flat band in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-07 L. Jin

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

Flat electronic bands enhance electron-electron interactions and give rise to correlated states such as unconventional superconductivity or fractional topological phases. However, most current efforts towards flat-band materials discovery…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-10 Xiangwen Wang , Yihao Wei , Anupam Bhattacharya , Qian Yang , Artem Mishchenko

Flat-band states in topological systems provide a unique platform for investigating strongly correlated phenomena and many body physics. However, in 2D static tight-binding systems, perfectly flat bands can only exist in the topologically…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-28 Bo Leng , Vien Van

Topological flat band (TFB) has been proposed theoretically in various lattice models, to exhibit a rich spectrum of intriguing physical behaviors. However, the experimental demonstration of flat band (FB) properties has been severely…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-25 Hang Liu , Sheng Meng , Feng Liu

Electronic flat bands in momentum space, arising from strong localization of electrons in real space, are an ideal stage to realize strong correlation phenomena. In certain lattices with built-in geometrical frustration, electronic…

The possibility of an unconventional form of high temperature superconductivity in flat band (FB) material does not cease to challenge our understanding of the physics in correlated systems. Here, we calculate the normal and anomalous…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-22 Maxime Thumin , Georges Bouzerar

We present a computational framework for simulating filaments interacting with rigid bodies through contact. Filaments are challenging to simulate due to their codimensionality, i.e., they are one-dimensional structures embedded in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Wei-Chen Li , Glen Chou

The most recent manifestation of cold Rydberg atom quantum simulators that employs tailored optical tweezer arrays enables the study of many-body dynamics under so-called facilitation conditions. We show how the facilitation mechanism…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-05 Maike Ostmann , Matteo Marcuzzi , Jiri Minar , Igor Lesanovsky