Observation of flat-band and band transition in the synthetic space

Guangzhen Li; Luojia Wang; Rui Ye; Shijie Liu; Yuanlin Zheng; Luqi Yuan; Xianfeng Chen

doi:10.1117/1.AP.4.3.036002

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