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Flat bands (FBs) are energy bands with zero group velocity, which in electronic systems were shown to favor strongly correlated phenomena. Indeed, a FB can be spanned with a basis of strictly localized states, the so called "compact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Enrico Di Benedetto , Alejandro Gonzalez-Tudela , Francesco Ciccarello

We calculate the theoretical contribution to the doping and temperature ($T$) dependence of electrical resistivity due to scattering by acoustic phonons in Bernal bilayer graphene (BBG) and rhombohedral trilayer graphene (RTG). We focus on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-31 Seth M. Davis , Yang-Zhi Chou , Fengcheng Wu , Sankar Das Sarma

The title compound is investigated by specific heat measurements in the normal and superconducting state supplemented by upper critical field transport, susceptibility and magnetization measurements. From a detailed analysis including also…

The effect of electron-phonon scattering processes over the thermoelectric properties of extrinsic graphene was studied. Electrical and thermal resistivity, as well as the thermopower, were calculated within the Bloch theory approximations.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-02 Enrique Muñoz

Over the past ten years, flat band (FB) or geometric superconductivity has become a major issue in condensed matter physics due to the significant technological benefits it could offer. Observations of this unconventional form of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-11 M. Thumin , G. Bouzerar

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

Electrons in condensed matter may transition into a variety of broken-symmetry phase states due to electron-electron interactions. Applying diverse mean-field approximations to the interaction term is arguably the simplest way to identify…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-17 Maxim Trushin , Liangtao Peng , Gargee Sharma , Giovanni Vignale , Shaffique Adam

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

Superconductivity in flatband systems has attracted tremendous attention in condensed matter physics. Alternating twisted multilayer graphene presents a compelling multiband system, with a coexistence of Dirac bands and flat bands, for…

Structural phase transitions and soft phonon modes pose a longstanding challenge to computing electron-phonon (e-ph) interactions in strongly anharmonic crystals. Here we develop a first-principles approach to compute e-ph scattering and…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-04 Jin-Jian Zhou , Olle Hellman , Marco Bernardi

The crystallographic stacking order in multilayer graphene plays an important role in determining its electronic properties. It has been predicted that a rhombohedral (ABC) stacking displays a conducting surface state with flat electronic…

Due to its incommensurate nature, moir\'e superlattices host not only acoustic phonons but also another type of soft collective modes called phasons. Here, we investigate the impact of electron-phason scattering on the transport properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Héctor Ochoa , Rafael M. Fernandes

Multiple-band electronic structure and proximity to antiferromagnetic (AF) instability are the key properties of iron-based superconductors. We explore the influence of scattering by the AF spin fluctuations on transport of multiple-band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-03 A. E. Koshelev

Atomically thin black phosphorus (BP) is a promising two-dimensional material for fabricating electronic and optoelectronic nano-devices with high mobility and tunable bandgap structures. However, the charge-carrier mobility in few-layer…

In this review we recapitulate the basic features of the flat-band spin systems and briefly summarize earlier studies in the field. Main emphasis is made on recent developments which include results for both spin and electron flat-band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-15 Oleg Derzhko , Johannes Richter , Mykola Maksymenko

Electrons in solids have been conventionally classified as either band-like itinerant ones or atomic-like localized ones depending on their properties. For heavy Fermion (HF) compounds, however, the f electrons show both itinerant and…

We present a theory of resonance fluorescence (RF) of a solid-state quantum emitter in the regime of weak optical excitation. The emitter is coupled to phonon modes of the surrounding bulk semiconductor, described by a super-Ohmic spectral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Rafal Bogaczewicz , Pawel Machnikowski

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…

We present an \emph{ab-initio} study that identifies the main electron-phonon scattering channels in $n$-type PbTe. We develop an electronic transport model based on the Boltzmann transport equation within the transport relaxation time…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Jiang Cao , Jose D. Querales-Flores , Aoife R. Murphy , Stephen Fahy , Ivana Savić

We report heavy electron behavior in unconventional superconductor YFe$_2$Ge$_2$ ($T_C \,{=}\, 1.2$ K). We directly observe very heavy bands ($m_\mathrm{eff}\sim 25 m_e$) within $\sim$10 meV of the Fermi level $E_{F}$ using angle-resolved…