Emergence of nearly flat bands through a kagome lattice embedded in an epitaxial two-dimensional Ge layer with a bitriangular structure

Autor: Taisuke Ozaki, Rainer Friedlein, Yukiko Yamada-Takamura, Shinya Yoshimoto, Chi-Cheng Lee, Hiroyuki Yamane, Antoine Fleurence, Yuki Fukaya, Kozo Mukai, Nobuhiro Kosugi, Jun Yoshinobu
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Physical Review B. 102
ISSN: 2469-9969
2469-9950
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.102.201102
Popis: Ge atoms segregating on zirconium diboride thin films grown on Ge(111) were found to crystallize into a two-dimensional bitriangular structure, which was recently predicted to be a flat band material through an embedded kagome lattice. Angle-resolved photoelectron emission experiments together with theoretical calculations pointed out the existence of a nearly flat band in spite of non-negligible in-plane long-range hopping and interactions with the substrate. This provides an experimental verification for the fact that a flat band can emerge from the electronic coupling between atoms and not from the geometry of the atomic structure.
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