Flat Bands: Fundamentals and Applications
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 June 2023) | Viewed by 5123
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nonlinear optics; beam shaping and optical manipulation; photonic flat bands; photonic lattices; topological photonics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Flat-band systems, as represented by lattices hosting at least one completely dispersionless energy band, have attracted enormous interest in different branches of physics, ranging from condensed matter to exciton polaritons, and from ultracold atoms to photonics. As the kinetic energy is completely quenched, particle-enhanced interaction makes flat-band systems a perfect candidate for the investigation of complex many-body quantum states and strongly correlated many-body physics in the absence of a magnetic field. On the other hand, advances in fabrication techniques not only provide insights into fundamental concepts and phenomena and motivate the continued study of disordered, quantum, and strongly interacting flat band systems but also lead to new techniques for harnessing flat-band physics in future micro- and nano-scale devices.
This Special Issue aims at presenting state-of-the-art articles on both the theoretical and experimental studies within the umbrella of flat band physics.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Strongly correlated spin, electronic and bosonic systems with flat bands;
- Finetuning and perturbations of flat bands;
- Flat bands and disorder/nonlinearity;
- Flat bands and non-Hermitian;
- Flat bands and topology;
- Novel experimental platforms;
- Flat bands and applications.
Dr. Liqin Tang
Dr. Shiqiang Xia
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- strongly correlated spin, electronic and bosonic systems with flat bands
- finetuning and perturbations of flat bands
- flat bands and disorder/nonlinearity
- flat bands and non-hermitian
- flat bands and topology
- novel experimental platforms
- flat bands and applications