Flat band fine-tuning and its photonic applications

C Danieli, A Andreanov, D Leykam, S Flach - Nanophotonics, 2024 - degruyter.com
Flat bands–single-particle energy bands–in tight-binding lattices, aka networks, have
attracted attention due to the presence of macroscopic degeneracies and their sensitivity to …

One-dimensional -root topological insulators and superconductors

AM Marques, L Madail, RG Dias - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Square-root topology is a recently emerged subfield describing a class of insulators and
superconductors whose topological nature is only revealed upon squaring their …

Tunable Aharonov-Bohm cages through imaginary couplings

SM Zhang, HS Xu, L ** - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
The Aharonov-Bohm (AB) cage enables localized confinement with nondiffractive
propagation for arbitrary excitation. In this study, we introduce an anti-parity-time (anti-PT) …

Flat band induced metal-insulator transitions for weak magnetic flux and spin-orbit disorder

Y Kim, T Čadež, A Andreanov, S Flach - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We consider manifolds of tunable all-bands-flat (ABF) lattices in dimensions d= 1, 2,
parameterized by a manifold angle parameter θ. We study localization properties of …

Topological inverse Anderson insulator

ZW Zuo, JR Lin, D Kang - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
A different type of topological phase dubbed topological inverse Anderson insulators is
proposed, which is characterized by the disorder-induced extended bulk states from the flat …

Kaleidoscopes of Hofstadter butterflies and Aharonov-Bohm caging from -root topology in decorated square lattices

AM Marques, J Mögerle, G Pelegrí, S Flannigan… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Square-root topology describes models whose topological properties can be revealed upon
squaring the Hamiltonian, which produces their respective parent topological insulators …

Flat band induced local Hilbert space fragmentation

E Nicolau, AM Marques, RG Dias, V Ahufinger - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
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 …

Observation of flat-band localization and topological edge states induced by effective strong interactions in electrical circuit networks

X Zhou, W Zhang, H Sun, X Zhang - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Flat-band topologies and localizations in noninteracting systems are extensively studied in
different quantum and classical-wave systems. Recently, the exploration on the novel …

Fast quantum transfer mediated by topological domain walls

J Zurita, CE Creffield, G Platero - Quantum, 2023 - quantum-journal.org
The duration of bidirectional transfer protocols in 1D topological models usually scales
exponentially with distance. In this work, we propose transfer protocols in multidomain SSH …

Impurity flat band states in the diamond chain

AM Marques, D Viedma, V Ahufinger… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Flat band (FB) systems, featuring dispersionless energy bands, have garnered significant
interest due to their compact localized states (CLSs). However, a detailed account on how …