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The existence of a flat band near the Fermi level can be a suitable platform for the emergence of interesting phenomena in condensed matter physics. Recently, NbOCl2 monolayer has been experimentally synthesized [Nature 613 (2023) 53],…

Two-dimensional systems in magnetic fields host rich physics, most notably the quantum Hall effect arising from Landau level quantization. In a broad class of two-dimensional models, flat bands with topologically nontrivial band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Soujanya Datta , Krishanu Roychowdhury

The transport of Bloch electrons under strong fields is traditionally understood through two mechanisms: intraband Bloch oscillations and interband Zener tunneling. Here, we propose an oscillation mechanism induced by the interband quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-26 Hui Zeng , Zijian Zhou , Wenhui Duan , Huaqing Huang

We examine the instabilities of a confined active nematic subjected to an orienting field using a low Reynolds number Ericksen-Leslie framework with active stresses and field-induced torques. Linear analysis reveals two distinct modes, with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-12 I. K. Joseph , A. J. H. Houston , K. N. Kowal , N. J. Mottram

We study a quasi-2D classical Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson effective field theory in the presence of quenched disorder in which incommensurate charge-density wave and superconducting orders are intertwined. The disorder precludes long-range…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-11-11 Laimei Nie , Lauren E. Hayward Sierens , Roger G. Melko , Subir Sachdev , Steven A. Kivelson

We present detailed studies of the high-field magnetoresistance of the layered organic metal $\kappa$-(BETS)$_2$\-Mn\-[N(CN)$_2$]$_3$ under a pressure slightly above the insulator-metal transition. The experimental data are analysed in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-22 V. N. Zverev , W. Biberacher , S. Oberbauer , I. Sheikin , P. Alemany , E. Canadell , M. V. Kartsovnik

Motivated by the recent theoretical studies on a two-dimensional (2D) chiral Hamiltonian based on the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chains, we experimentally and computationally demonstrate that topological flat frequency bands can occur at open…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Kai Qian , Linghua Zhu , Keun Hyuk Ahn , Camelia Prodan

We use the dynamical cluster approximation, with a quantum Monte Carlo cluster solver on clusters of up to 16 orbitals, to investigate the evolution of the Fermi surface across the magnetic order-disorder transition in the two-dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 L. C. Martin , F. F. Assaad

We study instabilities occurring in the electron system whose Fermi surface has flat regions on its opposite sides. Such a Fermi surface resembles Fermi surfaces of some high-$T_c$ superconductors. In the framework of the parquet…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Anatoley T. Zheleznyak , Victor M. Yakovenko , Igor E. Dzyaloshinskii

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-07 Daniel Leykam , Alexei Andreanov , Sergej Flach

We investigate the entanglement structure and wave function characteristics of continuously monitored free fermions with U$(1)$-symmetry in two spatial dimensions (2D). By deriving the exact fermion replica-quantum master equation, we line…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-15 K. Chahine , M. Buchhold

Alignment, the tendency of adjacent weight matrices in deep networks to develop compatible subspace orientations, underlies gradient flow, Neural Collapse, and representation similarity across architectures. Despite extensive empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jingchuan Xiao , Xinyi Sui , Cihan Ruan

We study the renormalization of a non-magnetic impurity's scattering potential due to the presence of a massless collective spin mode at a ferromagnetic quantum critical point. To this end, we compute the lowest order vertex corrections in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-02-26 Enrico Rossi , Dirk K. Morr

Employing a quantum Monte Carlo simulation we find a pairing instability in the normal state of the infinite dimensional periodic Anderson model. Superconductivity arises from a normal state in which the screening is protracted and which is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-23 A. N. Tahvildar-Zadeh , M. H. Hettler , M. Jarrell

Recently we presented a new band structure for La(2-x)Sr(x)CuO(4) and other high temperature superconductors in which a second narrow band was seen to cross the primary band at the Fermi level. The existence of this second Fermi level band…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-09-28 Jason K. Perry

We study the ground states of cold atoms in the tight-binding bands built from p-orbitals on a two dimensional honeycomb optical lattice. The band structure includes two completely flat bands. Exact many-body ground states with on-site…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-08-26 Congjun Wu , Doron Bergman , Leon Balents , S. Das Sarma

It has long been known that two-dimensional metals with antiferromagnetic exchange interactions have a weak-coupling instability to the superconductivity of spin-singlet, d-wave electron pairs. We examine additional possible instabilities…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-02-26 Jay Deep Sau , Subir Sachdev

Motivated by the indications of high-Tc superconductivity in natural graphite enriched in the rhombohedral phase, we study the band structure of several stacking configurations that combine two of the three graphite structures as well as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 R. Weht , A. A. Aligia , M. Nunez-Regueiro

Floating edge bands (FEB) have been identified in systems such as obstructed atomic insulators and layered nonsymmorphic semimetals, attracting considerable interest recently. Here we demonstrate that FEB can arise in a simplified model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Yang-Yang Li , Song-Bo Zhang

Motivated by recent experiments on Kondo insulators, we theoretically study quantum oscillations from disorder-induced in-gap states in small-gap insulators. By solving a non-Hermitian Landau level problem that incorporates the imaginary…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-18 Huitao Shen , Liang Fu