Flat bands on spherical surface: from Landau levels to giant-quantum-number orbitals

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Hauptverfasser: Jiang, Chen-Xin, Hu, Zi-Xiang, Yang, Bo
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author Jiang, Chen-Xin
Hu, Zi-Xiang
Yang, Bo
author_facet Jiang, Chen-Xin
Hu, Zi-Xiang
Yang, Bo
contents 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 largely unexplored. Here we compare the behavior of electrons confined to a single flat band on the surface of a sphere to those in flat bands under a magnetic field. The zero-field flat band exhibits an additional C(2) symmetry, which causes electrons to symmetrically cluster on opposite sides of the sphere's center when a trapping potential is introduced, resulting in a unique form of long-range "entanglement". To explore these findings experimentally, we propose a feasible setup to explore the unique properties of zero-field flat bands on spherical substrates, offering a promising route for studying interaction-driven states in spherical geometry without external fields.
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spellingShingle Flat bands on spherical surface: from Landau levels to giant-quantum-number orbitals
Jiang, Chen-Xin
Hu, Zi-Xiang
Yang, Bo
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
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 largely unexplored. Here we compare the behavior of electrons confined to a single flat band on the surface of a sphere to those in flat bands under a magnetic field. The zero-field flat band exhibits an additional C(2) symmetry, which causes electrons to symmetrically cluster on opposite sides of the sphere's center when a trapping potential is introduced, resulting in a unique form of long-range "entanglement". To explore these findings experimentally, we propose a feasible setup to explore the unique properties of zero-field flat bands on spherical substrates, offering a promising route for studying interaction-driven states in spherical geometry without external fields.
title Flat bands on spherical surface: from Landau levels to giant-quantum-number orbitals
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06922