journal article·2024-10Open access

Electronic Flat Band in Distorted Colouring Triangle Lattice

Yaqi Li, Shuwei Zhai, Yani Liu, Jingwei Zhang, Ziyuan Meng, Jincheng Zhuang, Haifeng Feng, Xun Xu, Weichang Hao, Miao Zhou, Guang‐Hong Lu, Shi Xue Dou, Yi Du

Advanced Science· Volume 11· Issue 37

Abstract

Abstract Dispersionless flat bands (FBs) in momentum space, given rise to electron destructive interference in frustrated lattices, offer opportunities to enhance electronic correlations and host exotic many‐body phenomena, such as Wigner crystal, fractional quantum hall state, and superconductivity. Despite successes in theory, great challenges remain in experimentally realizing FBs in frustrated lattices due to thermodynamically structural instability. Here, the observation of electronic FB in a potassium distorted colouring triangle (DCT) lattice is reported, which is supported on a blue phosphorene‐gold network. It is verified that the interaction between potassium and the underlayer dominates and stabilizes the frustrated structures. Two‐dimensional electron gas is modulated by the DCT lattice, and in turn results in a FB dispersion due to destructive quantum interferences. The FB exhibits suppressed bandwidth with high density of states, which is directly observed by scanning tunneling microscopy and confirmed by the first‐principles calculation. This work demonstrates that DCT lattice is a promising platform to study FB physics and explore exotic phenomena of correlation and topological matters.
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OpenAlex topics: Topological Materials and Phenomena · Quantum and electron transport phenomena · Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism

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Affiliations

School of Physics Beihang University Haidian Beijing 100191 China

Centre of Quantum and Matter Sciences International Research Institute for Multidisciplinary Science Beihang University Beijing 100191 China

Institute of Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 China

Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, Australian Institute for Innovative Materials University of Wollongong Wollongong New South Wales 2500 Australia

Beihang Hangzhou Innovation Institute Yuhang Hangzhou 310023 China

Beijing Key Laboratory of Advanced Nuclear Materials and Physics Beihang University Beijing 100191 China

Institute of Energy Materials Science University of Shanghai for Science and Technology Yangpu Shanghai 200093 China

Funding

Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality · Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities · National Natural Science Foundation of China · Australian Research Council

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