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Electric field assisted amplification of magnetic fields in tilted Dirac cone systems

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2019-08-02 v2 Materials Science General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We show that the continuum limit of the tilted Dirac cone in materials such as 8Pmmn8Pmmn-borophene and layered organic conductor α\alpha-(BEDT-TTF)2_2I3_3 deformation of the Minkowski spacetime of Dirac materials. From its Killing vectors we construct an emergent tilted-Lorentz (t-Lorentz) symmetry group for such systems. With t-Lorentz transformations we are able to obtain the exact solution of the Landau bands for a crossed configuration of electric and magnetic fields. For any given tilt parameter 0ζ<10\le\zeta<1 if the ratio χ=vFBz/cEy\chi=v_FB_z/cE_y of the crossed magnetic and electric fields that satisfies χ1+ζ\chi\ge 1+\zeta one can always find appropriate t-boosts in both valleys labeled by ±\pm in such a way the electric field can be t-boosted away, whereby the resulting pure effective magnetic field Bz±B^\pm_z governs the Landau level spectrum around each valley. The effective magnetic field in one of the valleys is always larger than the applied perpendicular magnetic field. This amplification comes at the expense of of diminishing the effective field in the opposite valleyand can be detected in various quantum oscillation phenomena in tilted Dirac cone systems. Tuning the ratio of electric and magnetic fields to χmin=1+ζ\chi_{\rm min}=1+\zeta leads to valley selective collapse of Landau levels. Our geometric description of the tilt in Dirac systems reveals an important connection between the tilt and an incipient "rotating source" when the tilt parameter can be made to depend on spacetime in certain way.

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@article{arxiv.1904.01328,
  title  = {Electric field assisted amplification of magnetic fields in tilted Dirac cone systems},
  author = {S A Jafari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.01328},
  year   = {2019}
}

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