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Hyperbolic Band Theory under Magnetic Field and Dirac Cones on a Higher Genus Surface

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2024-02-28 v4 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics Algebraic Geometry math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

We explore the hyperbolic band theory under a magnetic field for the first time. Our theory is a general extension of the conventional band theory defined on a Euclidean lattice into the band theory on a general hyperbolic lattice/Riemann surface. Our methods and results can be confirmed experimentally by circuit quantum electrodynamics (cQED), which enables us to create novel materials in a hyperbolic space. To investigate the band structures, we construct directly the hyperbolic magnetic Bloch states and find that they form Dirac cones on a coordinate neighborhood, by which they can be regarded as a global quantum gravity solution detectable in a laboratory. Besides this is the first explicit example of a massless Dirac state on a higher genus surface. Moreover we show that the energy spectrum exhibits an unusual fractal structure refracting the negative curvature, when plotted as a function of a magnetic flux.

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@article{arxiv.2104.13314,
  title  = {Hyperbolic Band Theory under Magnetic Field and Dirac Cones on a Higher Genus Surface},
  author = {Kazuki Ikeda and Shoto Aoki and Yoshiyuki Matsuki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.13314},
  year   = {2024}
}

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7 pages, 3 figures