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Abstract
The increased ability to engineer two-dimensional (2D) systems, either using materials, photonic lattices, or cold atoms, has led to the search for 2D structures with interesting properties.One such property is the presence of flat bands.Typically, the presence of these requires long-ranged hoppings, finetuning of nearest neighbor hoppings, or breaking time-reversal symmetry by using a staggered flux distribution in the unit cell.We provide a prescription based on carrying out projections from a parent system to generate different flat band systems.We identify the conditions for maintaining the flatness and identify a path-exchange symmetry in such systems that cause the flat band to be degenerate with the other dispersive ones.Breaking this symmetry leads to lifting the degeneracy while still preserving the flatness of the band.This technique does not require changing the topology nor breaking time-reversal symmetry as was suggested earlier in the literature.The prescription also eliminates the need for any fine-tuning.Moreover, it is shown that the subsequent projected systems inherit the precise fine-tuning conditions that were discussed in the literature for similar systems, in order to have and isolate a flat band.As examples, we demonstrate the use of our prescription to arrive at the flat band conditions for popular systems like the Kagomé, the Lieb, and the Dice lattices.Finally, we are also able to show that a flat band exists in a recently proposed chiral spin-liquid state of the Kagomé lattice only if it is associated with a gauge field that produces a flux modulation of the Chern-Simons type. B Properties of non-square matrices 28 C Identifying the path-exchange symmetry 28References 29 ment.In Section 6, we demonstrate all of the above ideas in the Lieb and Dice lattices. 178In Section 7, we demonstrate why the propsoed Chern-Simons type flux distribution on 179 a Kagomé lattice guarantees a flat band, whereas the usual Maxwellian flux distribution 180 does not.Finally, we summarize our results in Section 8.The Appendix includes some 181 details and proofs that did not find their place in the main text.182 2 Kagomé: naïve attempts to lift the flat band degeneracy 183 We start by considering the Hamiltonian for the Kagomé lattice within a tight-binding 184 model with only nn hoppings: 185
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.954 | 0.898 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; the direct Gemma label and the distilled Codex classifier agree on what is shown here.
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