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Discrete fermionic and bosonic models for hyperbolic lattices have attracted significant attention across a range of fields since the experimental realization of hyperbolic lattices in metamaterial platforms, sparking the development of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Ana Djordjević , Marija Dimitrijević Ćirić , Vladimir Juričić

Graphene is famous for being a host of 2D Dirac fermions. However, spin-orbit coupling introduces a small gap, so that graphene is formally a quantum spin hall insulator. Here we present symmetry-protected 2D Dirac semimetals, which feature…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-23 Steve M. Young , Charles L. Kane

In a recent article [10], the authors proved that the non-relativistic Schr\"odinger operator with a generic honeycomb lattice potential has conical (Dirac) points in its dispersion surfaces. These conical points occur for quasi-momenta,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Charles L. Fefferman , Michael I. Weinstein

We study a class of Dirac semimetals that feature an eightfold-degenerate double Dirac point. We show that 7 of the 230 space groups can host such Dirac points and argue that they all generically display linear dispersion. We introduce an…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-11 Benjamin J. Wieder , Youngkuk Kim , A. M. Rappe , C. L. Kane

We study three-dimensional Dirac fermions with weak finite-range scalar potential disorder. In the clean system, the density of states vanishes quadratically at the Dirac point. Disorder is known to be perturbatively irrelevant, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-12 Rahul Nandkishore , David A. Huse , S. L. Sondhi

We report a room-temperature optical reflectivity study performed on [112]-oriented Cd$_3$As$_2$ single crystals over a broad energy range under external pressure up to 10 GPa. The abrupt drop of the band dispersion parameter…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-23 E. Uykur , R. Sankar , D. Schmitz , C. A. Kuntscher

Within an effective Dirac-Weyl theory we solve the scattering problem for massless chiral fermions impinging on a cylindrical time-dependent potential barrier. The set-up we consider can be used to model the electron propagation in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 C. Schulz , R. L. Heinisch , H. Fehske

We investigate the existence and the dispersion characteristics of surface waves that propagate at an interface between metal-dielectric superlattice and isotropic dielectric. Within the long wavelength limit, when the effective-medium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Slobodan M. Vukovic , Juan J. Miret , Carlos J. Zapata-Rodriguez , Zoran Jaksic

The square Bi layers in $A$MnBi$_2$ ($A =$ Sr, Ca) host Dirac fermions which coexist with antiferromagnetic order on the Mn sublattice below $T_\mathrm{N} = 290\,$K (Sr) and $270\,$K (Ca). We have measured the spin-wave dispersion in these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-12 Marein C. Rahn , Andrew J. Princep , Andrea Piovano , Jiri Kulda , Yanfeng Guo , Youguo Shi , Andrew T. Boothroyd

Existence and stability of Dirac points in the dispersion relation of operators periodic with respect to the hexagonal lattice is investigated for different sets of additional symmetries. The following symmetries are considered: rotation by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-12-13 Gregory Berkolaiko , Andrew Comech

Despite the steady advancements in nanofabrication made over the past decade that had prompted a plethora of intriguing applications across various fields, achieving compatibility between miniaturized photonic devices and electronic…

We study the effect of spatial dispersion of crystal modes on optical properties such as the reflectivity $R$. As an example for isotropic media, we investigate the simplest model for phonons in ionic crystals and compare with previous…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. Kaelin , Ch. Helm , G. Blatter

We describe the fine structure of Dirac states in HgTe/CdHgTe quantum wells of critical and close-to-critical thickness and demonstrate the formation of an anticrossing gap between the tips of the Dirac cones driven by interface inversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-26 S. A. Tarasenko , M. V. Durnev , M. O. Nestoklon , E. L. Ivchenko , Jun-Wei Luo , Alex Zunger

This paper deals with the existence of guided waves and edge states in particular two-dimensional media obtained by perturbing a reference periodic medium with honeycomb symmetry. This reference medium is a thin periodic domain (the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-06 Bérangère Delourme , Sonia Fliss

We investigate the band-gap structure of the frequency spectrum for elastic waves in a high-contrast, two-component periodic elastic medium. We consider two-dimensional phononic crystals consisting of a background medium which is perforated…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 H. Ammari , H. Kang , H. Lee

Refraction and diffraction of waves in natural crystals and artificial crystals formed by anisotropically scattering centers are considered. A detailed study of the electromagnetic wave refraction in a two-dimensional photonic crystal…

Optics · Physics 2012-05-30 V. G. Baryshevsky , E. A. Gurnevich

Angle-resolved photoemission and X-ray diffraction experiments show that multilayer epitaxial graphene grown on the SiC(000-1) surface is a new form of carbon that is composed of effectively isolated graphene sheets. The unique rotational…

Recently, several new materials exhibiting massless Dirac fermions have been proposed. However, many of these do not have the typical graphene honeycomb lattice, which is often associated with Dirac cones. Here, we present a classification…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-12 G. van Miert , C. Morais Smith

There is no assurance that interface states can be found at the boundary separating two materials. As a strong perturbation typically favors wave localization, it is natural to expect that an interface state should form more easily in the…

Optics · Physics 2014-01-28 Xueqin Huang , Meng Xiao , Zhao-Qing Zhang , C. T. Chan

Two-dimensional Dirac materials with a flat band have been demonstrated to possess a plethora of unusual electronic properties, but the optical properties of these materials are less studied. Utilizing $\alpha$-$\mathcal{T}_3$ lattice as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-20 Chen-Di Han , Ying-Cheng Lai