First-Principles Design of a Half-Filled Flat Band of the Kagome Lattice in Two-Dimensional Metal-Organic Frameworks

Abstract

We design from first principles a new type of two-dimensional metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) using phenalenyl-based ligands to exhibit a half-filled flat band of the kagome lattice, which is one of the lattice family that shows Lieb-Mielke-Tasaki's flat-band ferromagnetism. Among various MOFs, we find that $\text{trans}$-Au-THTAP(trihydroxytriaminophenalenyl) has such an ideal band structure, where the Fermi energy is adjusted right at the flat band due to unpaired electrons of radical phenalenyl. The spin-orbit coupling opens a band gap giving a non-zero Chern number to the nearly flat band, as confirmed by the presence of the edge states in first-principles calculations and by fitting to the tight-binding model. This is a novel and realistic example of a system in which a nearly flat band is both ferromagnetic $\text{and}$ topologically non-trivial.

6+7 pages, 3+5 figures, 0+1 table; the phonon dispersion added; the final submitted version to appear in PRB-RC

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