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Dirac and Weyl Materials: Fundamental Aspects and Some Spintronics Applications

Materials Science 2016-11-04 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

Dirac and Weyl materials refer to a class of solid materials which host low-energy quasiparticle excitations that can be described by the Dirac and Weyl equations in relativistic quantum mechanics. Starting with the advent of graphene as the first prominent example, these materials have been attracting tremendous interest owing to their novel fundamental properties as well as the great potential for applications. Here we introduce the basic concepts and notions related to Dirac and Weyl materials and briefly review some recent works in this field, particularly on the conceptual development and the possible spintronics/pseudospintronics applications.

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@article{arxiv.1609.06482,
  title  = {Dirac and Weyl Materials: Fundamental Aspects and Some Spintronics Applications},
  author = {Shengyuan A. Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.06482},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

19 pages, 13 figures; Invited Review for Special Issue on Advanced Spintronics in Novel Materials and Its Applications

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