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A flat band can be studied an infinitely strong coupling, realized in a simple system. Therefore, its holographic realization should be interesting. Laia and Tong gave a realization of the flat band over the entire momentum region by introducing a particular boundary term. Here, we give a model with a flat band over a finite region of momentum space using a bulk interaction term instead of the boundary term. We find that the spectrum of our model is precisely analogous to that of the ABC stacked multilayer graphene. In the presence of the chemical potential, the flat band is bent in our holographic model, which is very close to the band deformation due to the spin-orbit
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Seo, JW., Yuk, T., Han, YK. et al. ABC-stacked multilayer graphene in holography. J. High Energ. Phys. 2022, 17 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2022)017
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