Disordered flat bands on the kagome lattice

Abstract

We study two models of correlated bond- and site-disorder on the kagome lattice considering both translationally invariant and completely disordered systems. The models are shown to exhibit a perfectly at ground state band in the presence of disorder for which we provide exact analytic solutions. Whereas in one model the at band remains gapped and touches the dispersive band, the other model has a finite gap, demonstrating that the band touching is not protected by topology alone. Our model also displays fully saturated ferromagnetic groundstates in the presence of repulsive interactions, an example of disordered at band ferromagnetism.