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Geometry-Controlled Chern transfer and Flat Band Reconstruction in distorted kagome lattices

Yu Zhu·Claudia Felser·Xiaolong Feng
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Flat band formation and nontrivial topology are central manifestations of kagome electronic structure, yet they are commonly discussed in idealized lattice geometries. In distorted kagome materials, structural deformation reorganizes electronic propagation pathways, but a microscopic understanding of how such distortions govern flat band dispersion and band topology is still lacking. Using a distorted kagome tight-binding model with rotated angle dependent long-range hopping and intrinsic spin-orbit coupling, we show that distortion reconstructs both the dispersion and topology of the kagome band manifold. The flat band descendant develops distinct bandwidth regimes associated with a redistribution of its extrema in momentum space. Simultaneously, symmetry-related band inversions generate quantized Chern number transfer whose parity is fixed by the multiplicity of the touching points, thereby determining the gap-resolved Z2 topology. The accompanying Berry curvature evolution produces characteristic anomalous Hall and Nernst responses. These results identify geometric deformation as a common microscopic origin of flat band and topological reconstruction in kagome systems.

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Yu Zhu, Claudia Felser, Xiaolong Feng. 2026-09-29. Geometry-Controlled Chern transfer and Flat Band Reconstruction in distorted kagome lattices. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.37404

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