Untwisting moiré physics: Almost ideal bands and fractional Chern insulators in periodically strained monolayer graphene

Q Gao, J Dong, P Ledwith, D Parker, E Khalaf - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Moiré systems have emerged in recent years as a rich platform to study strong correlations.
Here, we will propose a simple, experimentally feasible setup based on periodically strained …

Experimental observation of flat bands in one-dimensional chiral magnonic crystals

S Tacchi, J Flores-Farías, D Petti, F Brevis… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Spin waves represent the collective excitations of the magnetization field within a magnetic
material, providing dispersion curves that can be manipulated by material design and …

Coexistence of symmetry-enforced phononic Dirac nodal-line net and three-nodal surfaces phonons in solid-state materials: Theory and materials realization

J Wang, H Yuan, ZM Yu, Z Zhang, X Wang - Physical Review Materials, 2021 - APS
In this study, using symmetry analysis, we reveal that symmetry-enforced three-nodal
surfaces (NSs) and Dirac nodal-line (DNL) net phonons can coexist in two candidate space …

Exploring the structural stability, electronic and thermal attributes of synthetic 2D materials and their heterostructures

G Hussain, M Asghar, MW Iqbal, H Ullah… - Applied Surface Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Based on first-principles calculations, we have investigated the structural stability, electronic
structures, and thermal properties of the monolayer XSi 2 N 4 (X= Ti, Mo, W) and their lateral …

Three-dimensional flat Landau levels in an inhomogeneous acoustic crystal

Z Cheng, YJ Guan, H Xue, Y Ge, D Jia, Y Long… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
When electrons moving in two dimensions (2D) are subjected to a strong uniform magnetic
field, they form flat bands called Landau levels (LLs). LLs can also arise from …

Tight-binding models for SG 143 (P3) and application to recent DFT results on copper-doped lead apatite

MM Hirschmann, J Mitscherling - arxiv preprint arxiv:2308.03751, 2023 - arxiv.org
Recent density-functional theory (DFT) calculations on copper-doped lead apatite $\text {Pb}
_9\text {Cu}(\text {PO} _4) _6\text {O} $ indicated various interesting band structure …

Flat bands for electrons in rhombohedral graphene multilayers with a twin boundary

A Garcia‐Ruiz, S Slizovskiy… - Advanced Materials …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Topologically protected flat surface bands make thin films of rhombohedral graphite an
appealing platform for searching for strongly correlated states of 2D electrons. In this work …

Quantum-metric-enabled exciton condensate in double twisted bilayer graphene

X Hu, T Hyart, DI Pikulin, E Rossi - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Flat-band systems are a promising platform for realizing exotic collective ground states with
spontaneously broken symmetry because the electron-electron interactions dominate over …

Nodal-line transition induced Landau gap in strained lattices

H Cai, S Ma, DW Wang - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
In topological semimetals, the bands can cross at points or lines with different dimensionality
and connectivity in momentum space. For graphene and other systems hosting zero …

Topological states in superlattices of HgTe class of materials for engineering three-dimensional flat bands

R Islam, B Ghosh, G Cuono, A Lau, W Brzezicki… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
In search of materials with three-dimensional flat band dispersions, using ab initio
computations we investigate how topological phases evolve as a function of hydrostatic …