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We study two-dimensional (2D) Dirac fermions in the presence of a periodic mass term alternating between positive and negative values along one direction. This scenario could be realized for a graphene monolayer or for the surface states of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-29 A. De Martino , L. Dell'Anna , L. Handt , A. Miserocchi , R. Egger

When a Dirac semimetal is subject to a circularly polarized laser, it is predicted that the Dirac cone splits into two Weyl nodes and a nonequilibrium transient state called the Floquet Weyl semimetal is realized. We focus on the previously…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Leda Bucciantini , Sthitadhi Roy , Sota Kitamura , Takashi Oka

Weyl and Dirac semimetals are three dimensional phases of matter with gapless electronic excitations that are protected by topology and symmetry. As three dimensional analogs of graphene, they have generated much recent interest. Deep…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-31 N. P. Armitage , E. J. Mele , Ashvin Vishwanath

We present quantum Monte Carlo simulations for the chiral Heisenberg Gross-Neveu-Yukawa quantum phase transition of relativistic fermions with $N=4$ Dirac spinor components subject to a repulsive, local four fermion interaction in 2+1$d$.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-02 Thomas C. Lang , Andreas M. Läuchli

The three-dimensional Dirac semimetal is distinct from its two-dimensional counterpart due to its dimensionality and symmetry. Here, we observe that molecule-based quasi-two-dimensional Dirac fermion system, $\alpha$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-23 Naoya Tajima , Yoshitaka Kawasugi , Takao Morinari , Ryuhei Oka , Toshio Naito , Reizo Kato

Weyl fermions are hypothetical two-component massless relativistic particles in three-dimensional (3D) space, proposed by Hermann Weyl in 1929. Their band-crossing points, called 'Weyl points,' carry a topological charge and are therefore…

In this work we present an optical lattice setup to realize a full Dirac Hamiltonian in 2+1 dimensions. We show how all possible external potentials coupled to the Dirac field can arise from perturbations of the existing couplings of the…

Two-dimensional van der Waals materials have recently been established experimentally as a highly-tunable condensed matter platform, facilitating the controlled manipulation of band structures and interactions. In several of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Mireia Tolosa-Simeón , Michael M. Scherer , Stefan Floerchinger

We report on a lattice fermion formulation with a curved domain-wall mass term to nonperturbatively describe fermions in a gravitational background. In our previous work in 2022, we showed under the time-reversal symmetry that the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-02-16 Shoto Aoki , Hidenori Fukaya , Naoto Kan

We propose a novel scheme to simulate and observe massless Dirac fermions with cold atoms in a square optical lattice. A U(1) adiabatic phase is created by two laser beams for the tunneling of atoms between neighbor lattice sites. Properly…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-04-22 Jing-Min Hou , Wen-Xing Yang , Xiong-Jun Liu

Recently discovered Dirac semimetals (DSMs) with two Dirac nodes, such as Na$_{3}$Bi and Cd$_{2}$As$_{3}$, are regarded to carry the $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$ topological charge in addition to the chiral charge. Here, we study the Floquet phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-20 Xiao-Shi Li , Chen Wang , Ming-Xun Deng , Hou-Jian Duan , Pei-Hao Fu , Rui-Qiang Wang , L. Sheng , D. Y. Xing

In quantum field theory, we learn that fermions come in three varieties: Majorana, Weyl, and Dirac. Here we show that in solid state systems this classification is incomplete and find several additional types of crystal symmetry-protected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-25 Barry Bradlyn , Jennifer Cano , Zhijun Wang , M. G. Vergniory , C. Felser , R. J. Cava , B. Andrei Bernevig

The electron-electron Coulomb interaction in Dirac-Weyl semimetals harbours a novel paradigm of correlation effects that hybridizes diverse realms of solid-state physics with their relativistic counterpart. Driving spontaneous mass…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-30 Daigo Ohki , Michihiro Hirata , Takehiro Tani , Kazushi Kanoda , Akito Kobayashi

We generalize a proposal by Sorensen et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 086803 (2005)] for creating an artificial magnetic field in a cold atom system on a square optical lattice. This leads us to an effective lattice model with tunable spatially…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-12-13 Malcolm P. Kennett , Nazanin Komeilizadeh , Kamran Kaveh , Peter M. Smith

Dirac and Weyl nodal materials can host low-energy relativistic quasiparticles. Under strong magnetic fields, the topological properties of Dirac/Weyl materials can directly manifest through quantum Hall states. However, most Dirac/Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Gang Qiu , Chang Niu , Yixiu Wang , Mengwei Si , Zhuocheng Zhang , Wenzhuo Wu , Peide D. Ye

We propose a lattice model for the realization of exotic quartic semi-Dirac fermions, i.e. quasiparticles exhibiting a dispersion with quartic momentum dependence in a given direction, and a linear dependence in the perpendicular direction.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Mohamed M. Elsayed , Valeri N. Kotov

We combine a pair of independent Weyl fermions to compose a Dirac fermion on the four-dimensional Euclidean lattice. The obtained Dirac operator is antihermitian and does not reproduce anomaly under the usual chiral transformation. To…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 Takanori Sugihara

Dirac and Weyl semimetals, materials where electrons behave as relativistic fermions, react to position- and time-dependent perturbations, such as strain, as if emergent electromagnetic fields were applied. Since they differ from external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-10 Roni Ilan , Adolfo G. Grushin , Dmitry I. Pikulin

Multi-band touchings such as 3-band, 6-band and 8-band touchings together with the emergence of high pseudospin fermions were predicted recently at high-symmetry points in three-dimensional space. In this paper, we propose a simple cubic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Motohiko Ezawa

We show that a class of compounds with $I$4/$mcm$ crystalline symmetry hosts three-dimensional semi-Dirac fermions. Unlike the known two-dimensional semi-Dirac points, the degeneracy of these three-dimensional semi-Dirac points is not…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-07 Narayan Mohanta , Jong Mok Ok , Jie Zhang , Hu Miao , Elbio Dagotto , Ho Nyung Lee , Satoshi Okamoto