Flat bands, strange metals and the Kondo effect

JG Checkelsky, BA Bernevig, P Coleman, Q Si… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Flat-band materials such as the kagome metals or moiré superlattices are of intense current
interest. Flat bands can result from the electron motion on numerous (special) lattices and …

AV3Sb5 kagome superconductors

SD Wilson, BR Ortiz - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
The recent discovery of the A V3Sb5 (A= K, Rb, Cs) kagome superconductors launched a
growing field of research investigating the interplay between superconductivity and charge …

Universal sublinear resistivity in vanadium kagome materials hosting charge density waves

S Mozaffari, WR Meier, RP Madhogaria… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
The recent discovery of a charge density (CDW) state in ScV 6 Sn 6 at T CDW= 91 K offers
new opportunities to understand the origins of electronic instabilities in topological kagome …

Crystal net catalog of model flat band materials

PM Neves, JP Wakefield, S Fang, H Nguyen… - npj Computational …, 2024 - nature.com
Flat band systems are currently under intense investigation in quantum materials, optical
lattices, and metamaterials. These efforts are motivated by potential realization of strongly …

Atomically Thin Two-Dimensional Kagome Flat Band on the Silicon Surface

JH Lee, GW Kim, I Song, Y Kim, Y Lee, SJ Yoo… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
In condensed matter physics, the Kagome lattice and its inherent flat bands have attracted
considerable attention for their prediction and observation to host a variety of exotic physical …

Emergent flat band and topological Kondo semimetal driven by orbital-selective correlations

L Chen, F **e, S Sur, H Hu, S Paschen, J Cano… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Flat electronic bands are expected to show proportionally enhanced electron correlations,
which may generate a plethora of novel quantum phases and unusual low-energy …

Pomeranchuk Instability Induced by an Emergent Higher-Order van Hove Singularity on the Distorted Kagome Surface of CoSnS

PK Nag, R Batabyal, J Ingham, N Morali, H Tan… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Materials hosting flat bands at the vicinity of the Fermi level promote exotic symmetry broken
states. Common to many of these are van Hove singularities at saddle points of the …

Quantum stabilization and flat hydrogen-based bands of nitrogen-doped lutetium hydride

A Denchfield, F Belli, E Zurek, H Park, RJ Hemley - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We explore the electronic and structural properties of F m 3¯ m Lu-HN structures with
specific N, H ordering due to their remarkably narrow hydrogen-based bands at the Fermi …

Strange metals and planckian transport in a gapless phase from spatially random interactions

AA Patel, P Lunts, MS Albergo - arxiv preprint arxiv:2410.05365, 2024 - arxiv.org
'Strange'metals that do not follow the predictions of Fermi liquid theory are prevalent in
materials that feature superconductivity arising from electron interactions. In recent years, it …

Three-dimensional higher-order saddle-point-induced flatbands in Co-based kagome metals

H Tan, Y Jiang, GT McCandless, JY Chan, B Yan - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
The saddle point (Van Hove singularity) exhibits a divergent density of states in two-
dimensional systems, leading to fascinating phenomena such as strong correlations and …