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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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Yoonseok Hwang , Jun-Won Rhim , Bohm-Jung Yang

Exact construction of one electron eigenstates with flat, non-dispersive bands, and localized over clusters of various sizes is reported for a class of quasi-one dimensional looped networks. Quasiperiodic Fibonacci and Berker fractal…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-11-20 Atanu Nandy , Arunava Chakrabarti

We study signatures of magnetic quantum oscillations in three-dimensional nodal line semimetals at zero temperature. The extended nature of the degenerate bands can result in a Fermi surface geometry with topological genus one, as well as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Hui Yang , Roderich Moessner , Lih-King Lim

Flat electronic bands enable fascinating emergent phenomena such as superconductivity and charge orders. A prevailing approach to realizing flat bands is to engineer lattice geometric constraints in twisted or kagome-like materials. An…

Our previous understanding of electronic transport in disordered systems was based on the assumption that there is a finite Fermi velocity for the relevant electrons. The Fermi velocity determines important length scales in disordered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Chun Wang Chau , Tian Xiang , Shuai A. Chen , K. T. Law

The understanding of lattice instabilities is of vast importance in material science. The famous example is the Peierls instability of one-dimensional metals and for strongly-nested Fermi surfaces in two and three dimensions. Through an…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-08-12 Nassim Derriche , Ilya Elfimov , George Sawatzky

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

For three-dimensional non-interacting multi-band metals, we show that important information about the shape and the quantum geometry of Fermi surfaces is encoded in the subleading logarithmic term of bipartite charge fluctuations. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Pok Man Tam , Yarden Sheffer , Xiao-Chuan Wu , F. D. M. Haldane , Shinsei Ryu

We discuss the dispersionless spectrum with zero energy in the linear topological defects - vortices. The flat band emerges inside the vortex living in the bulk medium containing topologically stable Fermi points in momentum space. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-06-24 G. E. Volovik

We investigate the competing Fermi surface instabilities in the Kagome tight-binding model. Specifically, we consider onsite and short-range Hubbard interactions in the vicinity of van Hove filling of the dispersive Kagome bands where the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-27 Maximilian L. Kiesel , Christian Platt , Ronny Thomale

Our previous understanding of transport in disordered system depends on the assumption that there is a well-defined Fermi velocity. The Fermi velocity determines important length scales in the system such as the diffusion length and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Chun Wang Chau , Tian Xiang , Shuai A. Chen , K. T. Law

WTe$_2$ stands out as a semimetal presenting Fermi level quantum oscillations in most measured quantities under magnetic fields. However, the electronic band structure above and below the Fermi level has not been explored completely. Here…

We probe quantum oscillations in nodal line semimetals (NLSM) by considering a NLSM continuum model under strong magnetic field and report the characteristics of the Landau level spectra and the fluctuations in the Fermi level as the field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-04 Satyaki Kar , Anupam Saha

Superconductivity in flat-band systems, governed by quantum metric of Bloch states rather than the BCS framework, exhibits unique phenomena due to the vanishing electron group velocity. Here, we propose the vortex states and vortex size as…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-06 Chuang Li , Fu-Chun Zhang , Lun-Hui Hu

The importance of the quantum metric in flat-band systems has been noticed recently in many contexts such as the superfluid stiffness, the dc electrical conductivity, and ideal Chern insulators. Both the quantum metric of degenerate and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-10 Bruno Mera , Johannes Mitscherling

The nesting vector and the magnetic susceptibility of the quasi-one-dimensional system having imperfectly nested Fermi surface are studied analytically and numerically. The magnetic susceptibility has the plateau-like maximum in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-28 Yasumasa Hasegawa , Keita Kishigi

A critical result in superconductivity is that flat bands, though dispersionless, can still host nonzero superfluid weight due to quantum geometry. We show that the derivation of the mean field superfluid weight in previous literature is…

Band theory provides the foundation for understanding electronic structure in crystalline materials, but its reliance on exact translational symmetry limits its applicability to systems with defects, disorder, incommensurate modulations, or…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-08 Christopher A. Bairnsfather , Ralph M. Kaufmann , Terry A. Loring , Alexander Cerjan

The past few years have seen a revived interest in quantum geometrical characterizations of band structures due to the rapid development of topological insulators and semi-metals. Although the metric tensor has been connected to many…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-07 Adrien Bouhon , Abigail Timmel , Robert-Jan Slager

We investigate aspects of the relation between the quantum geometry of the normal state (NS) and the superconducting phase, through the lens of non-locality. By relating band theory to quantum estimation theory, we derive a direct…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-11 Florian Simon