Topological Triviality of Flat Hamiltonians
arXiv:2309.06487 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.111.L041105
Abstract
Landau levels play a key role in theoretical models of the quantum Hall effect. Each Landau level is degenerate, flat and topologically non-trivial. Motivated by Landau levels, we study tight-binding Hamiltonians whose energy levels are all flat. We demonstrate that in two dimensions, for such Hamiltonians, the flat bands must be topologically trivial. To that end, we show that the projector onto each flat band is necessarily strictly local. Our conclusions do not need the assumption of lattice translational invariance.
arXiv comment7 pages, 2 figures
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