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A vibrational model of transport properties of dense fluids assumes that solid-like oscillations of atoms around their temporary equilibrium positions dominate the dynamical picture. The temporary equilibrium positions of atoms do not form…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-09 Sergey Khrapak

Defects are inevitable during the manufacturing processes of materials. Presence of these defects and their dynamics significantly influence the responses of materials. A thorough understanding of dislocation dynamics of different types of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-28 Santosh Chhetri , Maryam Naghibolhosseini , Mohsen Zayernouri

Using the Boltzmann transport model, we show that, somewhat unintuitively, ballistic transport of electrons in metals is weaker than diffusive transport. This happens because the femtosecond-scale collision rates of the non-thermal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-26 Yonatan Sivan , Ieng-Wai Un , Subhajit Sarkar

We consider the ballistic transport of quasiparticles with exclusion statistics through a 1D wire within the Landauer-Buttiker approach. We demonstrate that quasiparticle transport coefficients (electrical and heat conductance, as well as…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 I. V. Krive , E. R. Mucciolo

The transport equation of active motion is generalised to consider time-fractional dynamics for describing the anomalous diffusion of self-propelled particles observed in many different systems. In the present study, we consider an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-27 Francisco J. Sevilla , Guillermo Chacón-Acosta , Trifce Sandev

We study transport in a Weyl semimetal with donor and acceptor impurities. At sufficiently high temperatures transport is dominated by electron-electron interactions, while the low-temperature resistivity comes from the scattering of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-13 Ya. I. Rodionov , S. V. Syzranov

Semi-Dirac semimetals have received enthusiastic research both theoretically and experimentally in the recent years. Due to the anisotropic dispersion, its physical properties are highly direction-dependent. In this work we employ the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-08 Shihao Bi , Yiting Deng , Yan He , Peng Li

Diffusivity is a key quantity in describing velocity fluctuations in granular materials. These fluctuations are the basis of many thermodynamic and hydrodynamic models which aim to provide a statistical description of granular systems. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Brian Utter , R. P. Behringer

In this paper we develop a model to describe the diffusion process in a porous medium. For the observed decrease in current yield, we propose other causes than difference in diffusivity, which we consider unaltered by the porous medium. The…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-05-10 P. C. T. DÁjello , G. L. Nunes , J. J. Piacentini , L. Lauck

Weyl semimetals host topologically protected surface states, with arced Fermi surface contours that are predicted to propagate through the bulk when their momentum matches that of the surface projections of the bulk's Weyl nodes. We use…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-14 Hiroyuki Inoue , Andras Gyenis , Zhijun Wang , Jian Li , Seong Woo Oh , Shan Jiang , Ni Ni , B. Andrei Bernevig , Ali Yazdani

We discuss the modified quantum electrodynamics from a time-reversal-breaking Weyl semimetal coupled with a $U(1)$ gauge (electromagnetic) field. A key role is played by the soft dispersion of the photons in a particular direction, say…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-01 Xuzhe Ying , A. A. Burkov , Chong Wang

Weyl semimetals are a new class of Dirac material that posses bulk energy nodes in three dimensions. In this paper, we study a Weyl semimetal subject to an applied magnetic field. We derive expressions for the density of states, electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-04-30 Phillip E. C. Ashby , J. P. Carbotte

Based on the supersymmetric quantum mechanical approach, we have systematically studied both the $U\left(1\right)$ gauge anomaly and the diffeomorphism anomaly in Weyl systems with torsion, curvature and external electromagnetic fields.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-11 Ze-Min Huang , Bo Han

Motivated by recent applications of superdiffusive transport models to shock-accelerated particle distributions in the heliosphere, we solve analytically a one-dimensional fractional diffusion-advection equation for the particle density. We…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Yuri E. Litvinenko , Frederic Effenberger

Anomalous finite-temperature transport has recently been observed in numerical studies of various integrable models in one dimension; these models share the feature of being invariant under a continuous non-abelian global symmetry. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-04 Enej Ilievski , Jacopo De Nardis , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Romain Vasseur , Brayden Ware

We present a detailed microscopic study of quasi-ballistic transport in deep submicron semiconductor channels. In particular, we study the crossover between the diffusive and ballistic regimes of transport and identify signatures in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Dan Csontos , Sergio E. Ulloa

We analyze the transport properties in approximants of quasicrystals alpha-AlMnSi, 1/1-AlCuFe and for the complex metallic phase lambda-AlMn. These phases presents strong analogies in their local atomic structures and are related to…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-01-07 Guy Trambly de Laissardière , Didier Mayou

Weyl fermions scattering from a random Coulomb potential are predicted to exhibit resistivity versus temperature $\rho \space \alpha \space T^{-4}$ in a single particle model. Here we show that, in closed environment-grown polycrystalline…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-14 P. G. LaBarre , L. Dong , J. Trinh , T. Siegrist , A. P. Ramirez

We consider as a model of Weyl semimetal thermoelectric transport a $(3+1)$-dimensional charged, relativistic and relaxed fluid with a $U(1)_{V} \times U(1)_{A}$ chiral anomaly. We take into account all possible mixed energy, momentum,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-15 Andrea Amoretti , Daniel K. Brattan , Luca Martinoia , Ioannis Matthaiakakis , Jonas Rongen

The study of charge-density wave (CDW) distortions in Weyl semimetals has recently returned to the forefront, inspired by experimental interest in materials such as (TaSe4)2I. However, the interplay between collective phonon excitations and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Robert C. McKay , Barry Bradlyn