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Energy quantization at the "three-quarter Dirac point" in a magnetic field

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2019-01-28 v2

Abstract

The quantization of the energy in a magnetic field (Landau quantization) at a three-quarter Dirac point is studied theoretically. The three-quarter Dirac point is realized in the system of massless Dirac fermions with the critically tilted Dirac cone in one direction, where a linear term disappears and a quadratic term α2qx2\alpha_2 q_x^2 with aconstant α2\alpha_2 plays an important role. The energy is obtained as Enα235(nB)45E_n \propto \alpha_2^{\frac{3}{5}} (n B)^{\frac{4}{5}}, where n=1,2,3,n=1, 2, 3, \dots, by means of numerically and analytically solving the differential equation, as well as by the semiclassical quantization rule. The existence of the n=0n=0 state is studied by introducing the energy gap due to the inversion-symmetry-breaking term, and it is obtained that the n=0n=0 state exists in one of a pair of three-quarter Dirac points, depending on the direction of the magnetic field when the energy gap is finite.

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@article{arxiv.1809.02276,
  title  = {Energy quantization at the "three-quarter Dirac point" in a magnetic field},
  author = {Yasumasa Hasegawa and Keita Kishigi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.02276},
  year   = {2019}
}

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