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Silicene, a sheet of silicon atoms in a honeycomb lattice, was proposed to be a new Dirac-type electron system similar as graphene. We performed scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy studies on the atomic and electronic properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Lan Chen , Cheng-Cheng Liu , Baojie Feng , Xiaoyue He , Peng Cheng , Zijing Ding , Sheng Meng , Yugui Yao , Kehui Wu

First-principles calculations of the electronic structure of members of the $R$NiC$_2$ series are presented, and their Fermi surfaces investigated for nesting propensities which might be linked to the charge-density waves exhibited by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Laverock , T. D. Haynes , C. Utfeld , S. B. Dugdale

Ultrafast optical spectroscopy is used to study the antiferromagnetic f-electron system USb2. We observe the opening of two charge gaps at low temperatures (<45 K), arising from renormalization of the electronic structure. Analysis of our…

The low-energy theory of electrons interacting via repulsive short-range interactions on graphene's honeycomb lattice at half filling is presented. The exact symmetry of the Lagrangian with local quartic terms for the Dirac field dictated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-05-20 Igor F. Herbut , Vladimir Juricic , Bitan Roy

We have studied the ground state of the one dimensional Hubbard superlattice structures with different unit cell sizes in the presence of electric field. Self consistent Hartree-Fock approximation calculation is done in the weak to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Jayeeta Chowdhury , S. N. Karmakar , Bibhas Bhattacharyya

We measured the temperature and fluence dependence of the time-resolved photoinduced optical reflectivity in a decagonal Al_{71.9}Ni_{11.1}Co_{17.0} quasicrystal. We find no evidence for the relaxation of a hot thermalized electron gas as…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-03-02 T. Mertelj , A. Oslak , J. Dolinsek , I. R. Fisher , V. V. Kabanov , D. Mihailovic

We have used scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy to resolve the spatial variation of the density of states of twisted graphene layers on top of a highly oriented pyrolytic graphite substrate. Owing to the twist a moire pattern…

Having been extensively studied during last decades in the fields of thermoelectics and ionic conductors, the $\alpha $ phase of Cu$_{2}$Se with antfluoride crystal structure has recently emerged as a topological zero-gap semimetal with a…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-05 Thomas Steele , Becker Sharif , David Lederman , Xiangang Wan , Sergey Y. Savrasov

Two-dimensional lattices of coupled micropillars etched in a planar semiconductor microcavity offer a workbench to engineer the band structure of polaritons. We report experimental studies of honeycomb lattices where the polariton…

Moir\'e heterostructures provide a powerful framework for tailoring electronic band structures via controlled long-range periodic superlattice potentials. Beyond widely studied moir\'e-tailored flat bands, folded band structures can host…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-29 R. Ganser , M. P. T. Masilamani , B. Geldiyev , M. M. Hirschmann , A. Consiglio , J. Schusser , D. Di Sante , M. Ünzelmann , F. Reinert

We derive the boundary condition for the Dirac equation corresponding to a tight-binding model on a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice terminated along an arbitary direction. Zigzag boundary conditions result generically once the boundary is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-09 A. R. Akhmerov , C. W. J. Beenakker

The electronic structure of low-density n-type SrTiO3 delta-doped heterostructures is investigated by angular dependent Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations. In addition to a controllable crossover from a three- to two-dimensional Fermi surface,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Kim , C. Bell , Y. Kozuka , M. Kurita , Y. Hikita , H. Y. Hwang

The ``band-structure'' of a disordered stripe array is computed and compared, at a qualitative level, to angle resolved photoemission experiments on the cuprate high temperature superconductors. The low-energy states are found to be…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Granath , V. Oganesyan , D. Orgad , S. A. Kivelson

We prove that the two-dimensional Schroedinger operator with a potential having the symmetry of a honeycomb structure has dispersion surfaces with conical singularities (Dirac points) at the vertices of its Brillouin zone. No assumptions…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-06-19 Charles L. Fefferman , Michael I. Weinstein

The recent discovery of Dirac semimetals represents a new achievement in our fundamental understanding of topological states of matter. Due to their topological surface states, high mobility, and exotic properties associated with bulk Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-13 Xianbo Xiao , Shengyuan A. Yang , Zhengfang Liu , Huili Li , Guanghui Zhou

The semi-Dirac semi-Weyl semi-metal has been of interest in recent years due to its naturally occurring point Fermi surface and the associated exotic band-structure near the Fermi surface, which is linear (graphene-like) in one direction of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-25 Swapnonil Banerjee

We use tunable, vacuum ultraviolet laser-based angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and density functional theory calculations to study the electronic properties of Dirac semimetal candidate cubic PtBi${}_{2}$. In addition to bulk…

The electronic structure of Bernal-stacked graphite subject to tilted magnetic fields is studied theoretically. The minimal nearest-neighbor tight-binding model with the Peierls substitution is employed to describe the structure of Landau…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-14 Nataliya A. Goncharuk , Ludvik Smrcka

To date, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy has been successful in identifying energy scales of the many-body interactions in correlated materials, focused on binding energies of up to a few hundred meV below the Fermi energy. Here,…

Starting from the simplified analytic model of electronic spectrum of iron - pnictogen (chalcogen) high - temperature superconductors close to the Fermi level, we discuss the influence of antiferromagneting (AFM)scattering both for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-18 E. Z. Kuchinskii , M. V. Sadovskii