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Condensed Matter, Volume 10, Issue 4

2025 December - 13 articles

Cover Story: Flat electronic bands, with their nearly dispersionless spectra, provide a unique platform for strong correlations, unconventional magnetism, and topological phenomena. This review summarizes the geometric and topological origins of flat bands, including destructive interference, compact localized states, and their connection to quantum metrics. We survey key material platforms—from engineered lattices and moiré structures to transition-metal compounds—where flat bands have been predicted or observed. Recent progress on correlation-driven ferromagnetism, superconductivity, and Hall responses is highlighted. We conclude by outlining open challenges and future directions toward realizing ideal flat-band systems. View this paper
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Articles (13)

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
1,942 Views
31 Pages

Flat electronic bands, characterized by a nearly dispersionless energy spectrum, have emerged as fertile ground for exploring strong correlation effects, unconventional magnetism, and topological phases. This review paper provides an overview of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
690 Views
12 Pages

Graphene holds significant promise as an ideal reinforcing phase. However, its tendency to irreversibly aggregate and its unclear impact on electrodeposition mechanisms have hindered the full exploitation of its advantages for enhancing material mech...

  • Article
  • Open Access
426 Views
12 Pages

The studied Ce0.5Y0.5−XTbXF3 (X = 0, 0.001, 0.002, 0.005, 0.01, and 0.05) nanoparticles were synthesized via the water-based co-precipitation method. All the samples demonstrated diameters in the 17–20 nm range and a hexagonal phase corre...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,218 Views
13 Pages

We investigate the influence of Landau Levels (LLs) and Zeeman energy, induced by an applied magnetic field B, on the critical temperature Tc for two-dimensional (2D) ultraclean superconductors using a fully quantum mechanical approach within the Bar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
606 Views
17 Pages

We theoretically investigate topological transitions between coplanar and noncoplanar magnetic states in centrosymmetric itinerant magnets on a square lattice. A canonical effective spin model incorporating bilinear and biquadratic exchange interacti...

  • Opinion
  • Open Access
418 Views
9 Pages

Conservation in High-Field Quantum Transport

  • Mukunda P. Das and
  • Frederick Green

This article provides an overview of the role of microscopic conservation in charge transport at small scales and at driving fields beyond the linear-response limit. As a practical example, we recall the measurement and theory of interband coupling e...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,033 Views
19 Pages

We briefly review the early development of the mean-field dynamics for cooperatively interacting quantum many-body systems, mapped to pseudo-spin (Ising-like) systems. We start with (Anderson, 1958) pseudo-spin mapping the BCS (1957) Hamiltonian of s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
791 Views
14 Pages

Owing to their dimensions and high aspect ratio, magnetic nanowires possess distinctive physical and chemical properties and are of great importance in building nanoelectronics devices. Nanowires are traditionally produced by electrochemical depositi...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
1,552 Views
17 Pages

Nanoscale Lattice Heterostructure in High-Tc Superconductors

  • Annette Bussmann-Holder,
  • Jürgen Haase,
  • Hugo Keller,
  • Reinhard K. Kremer,
  • Sergei I. Mukhin,
  • Alexey P. Menushenkov,
  • Andrei Ivanov,
  • Alexey Kuznetsov,
  • Victor Velasco and
  • Antonio Bianconi
  • + 2 authors

Low-temperature superconductivity has been known since 1957 to be described by BCS theory for effective single-band metals controlled by the density of states at the Fermi level, very far from band edges, the electron–phonon coupling constant l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,116 Views
16 Pages

Photonic Glasses in Ferrofluid Thin Films

  • Alberto Tufaile and
  • Adriana Pedrosa Biscaia Tufaile

This study investigates the dynamic magneto-optical properties of ferrofluid thin films, focusing on how magnetic fields induce light–matter interactions using a device known as Ferrocell. Our findings reveal that incident light interacts with...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
924 Views
6 Pages

The National Laboratories in Frascati (LNF INFN) were conceived and created by a group of collaborators of Enrico Fermi, including Edoardo Amaldi, Gilberto Bernardini, and Enrico Persico, after World War II, with the goal of hosting a 1 GeV electron...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,593 Views
17 Pages

Exploring Low Energy Excitations in the d5 Iridate Double Perovskites La2BIrO6 (B = Zn, Mg)

  • Abhisek Bandyopadhyay,
  • Dheeraj Kumar Pandey,
  • Carlo Meneghini,
  • Anna Efimenko,
  • Marco Moretti Sala and
  • Sugata Ray

We experimentally investigate the structural, magnetic, transport, and electronic properties of two d5 iridate double perovskite materials La2BIrO6 (B = Mg, Zn). Notably, despite similar crystallographic structure, the two compounds show distinctly d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,157 Views
12 Pages

25 September 2025

This study presents a computational investigation into the design of triphenylamine-based donor chromophores incorporating 2-(1,1-dicyanomethylene)rhodanine as the acceptor unit. Three molecular architectures (System-1 to System-3) were developed by...

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