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An Abelian gauge model, with vector and 2-form potential fields linked by a topological mass term that mixes the two Abelian factors, is shown to exhibit Dirac-like magnetic monopoles in the presence of a matter background. In addition,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Winder A. Moura-Melo , N. Panza , J. A. Helayel-Neto

One-dimensional topological superconductors are known to host Majorana zero modes at domain walls terminating the topological phase. Their nonabelian nature allows for processing quantum information by braiding operations which are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-27 Torsten Karzig , Gil Refael , Felix von Oppen

Majorana zero modes are usually attributed to topological superconductors. We study a class of two-dimensional topologically trivial superconductors without chiral edge modes, which nevertheless host robust Majorana zero modes in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-04-07 Zhongbo Yan , Ren Bi , Zhong Wang

We derive the relativistic Hamiltonian of hydrogen atom in dynamical noncommutative spaces (DNCS or {\tau}-space). Using this Hamiltonian we calculate the energy shift of the ground state and as well the [2P]_(1/2), [2S]_(1/2) levels. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-20 S. A. Alavi , N. Rezaei

The quantum mechanics of a spin 1/2 particle on a locally spatial constant curvature part of a (2+1)- spacetime in the presence of a constant magnetic field of a magnetic monopole has been investigated. It has been shown that these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 M. A. Jafarizadeh , S. K. Moayedi

Topological nodal superconductors (SCs) have attracted considerable interest due to their gapless bulk excitations and exotic surface states. In this paper, by establishing a general framework of the effective theory for multi-orbital SCs,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-17 Dao-He Ma , Jin An

We study the $(1+1)$ dimensional generalized Dirac oscillator with a position-dependent mass. In particular, bound states with zero energy as well as non zero energy have been obtained for suitable choices of the mass function/oscillator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 C. -L. Ho , P. Roy

Odd numbers of Dirac points and helical states can exist at edges (surfaces) of two-dimensional (three-dimensional) topological insulators. In the bulk of a one-dimensional lattice (not an edge) with time reversal symmetry, however, a no-go…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-24 Sheng-Nan Ji , Bang-Fen Zhu , Ren-Bao Liu

In this article we discuss generalized harmonic confinement of massless Dirac fermions in (2+1) dimensions using smooth finite magnetic fields. It is shown that these types of magnetic fields lead to conditional confinement, that is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Dai-Nam Le , Van-Hoang Le , Pinaki Roy

We discover novel topological effects in the one-dimensional Kitaev chain modified by long-range Hamiltonian deformations in the hopping and pairing terms. This class of models display symmetry-protected topological order measured by the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-20 O. Viyuela , D. Vodola , G. Pupillo , M. A. Martin-Delgado

In this article we study two-dimensional Dirac Hamiltonians with non-commutativity both in coordinates and momenta from an algebraic perspective. In order to do so, we consider the graded Lie algebra $\mathfrak{sl}(2|1)$ generated by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-30 Horacio Falomir , Joaquin Liniado , Pablo Pisani

Electron correlation effects caused by the topological zero mode of a hydrogenated graphene vacancy, $V_{111}$, with three adsorbed hydrogen atoms is discussed theoretically. A Kondo model is derived from the multi-reference representation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-31 Naoki Morishita , Gagus Ketut Sunnardianto , Koichi Kusakabe , Isao Maruyama , Kazuyuki Takai , Toshiaki Enoki

We propose a (3+1)D linear set of covariant vector equations, which unify the spin 0 ``new Dirac equation'' with its spin 1/2 counterpart, proposed by Staunton. Our equations describe a spin (0,1/2) supermultiplet with different numbers of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Peter A. Horvathy , Mikhail S. Plyushchay , Mauricio Valenzuela

It is well-known that the tight-binding Hamiltonian of graphene describes the low-energy excitations that appear to be massless chiral Dirac fermions. Thus, in the continuum limit one can analyze the crystal properties using the formalism…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-11-03 P. Kosinski , P. Maslanka , J. Slawinska , I. Zasada

We propose and investigate a new platform for the realization of Majorana zero modes in a thin-film heterostructure composed of an easy-plane ferromagnet and a superconductor with spin-orbit coupling. The system can support an energetically…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-04 Vedangi Pathak , Sayak Dasgupta , Marcel Franz

We address the issue whether it is possible to generate Majorana bound states at the magnetic-superconducting interface in two-dimensional topological insulators with hidden Dirac points in the spectrum. In this case, the Dirac point of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 Ferdinand Schulz , Kirill Plekhanov , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

We propose how to realize the topological modes, which correspond to topological zero modes for a quantum system, protected by chiral and rotation symmetry for a mechanical system. Specifically, we show the emergence of topological modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-10 Hiromasa Wakao , Tsuneya Yoshida , Tomonari Mizoguchi , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

The lattice studies in QCD demonstrate the nontrivial localization behavior of the eigenmodes of the 4D Euclidean Dirac operator considered as Hamiltonian of $4+1$ dimensional disordered system. We use the holographic viewpoint to provide…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-04 A. Gorsky , M. Litvinov

In a Dirac semimetal, the conduction and valence bands contact only at discrete (Dirac) points in the Brillouin zone (BZ) and disperse linearly in all directions around these critical points. Including spin, the low energy effective theory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-17 S. M. Young , S. Zaheer , J. C. Y. Teo , C. L. Kane , E. J. Mele , A. M. Rappe

In this work we address the problem of realizing a reliable quantum memory based on zero-energy Majorana modes in the presence of experimental constraints on the operations aimed at recovering the information. In particular, we characterize…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Matteo Ippoliti , Matteo Rizzi , Vittorio Giovannetti , Leonardo Mazza