Type-III Dirac Cones from Degenerate Directionally Flat Bands: Viewpoint from Molecular-Orbital Representation

Abstract

We present a systematic method of creating type-III Dirac cones from degenerate directionally flat bands. Here, the directionally flat band means a completely dispersionless band only in a certain direction. The key strategy is to retain one of the directionally flat bands while making the other dispersive, by adding a perturbation having a selected form of a Hamiltonian matrix. Such a form of a perturbation is found by using the "molecular-orbital representation" which we have developed to describe flat-band models. The models thus obtained host type-III Dirac cones even without fine-tuning hopping parameters. To demonstrate the ubiquity of this method, we study concrete examples of two-band models and a four-band model.

5 pages, 4 figures

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