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We reexamine the electronic structure of graphene on SiC substrate by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. We directly observed multiply cloning of Dirac cone, in addition to ones previously attributed to reconstruction. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-21 C. L. Wu , Q. Wan , C. Peng , S. K. Mo , R. Z. Li , K. M. Zhao , Y. P. Guo , C. D. Zhang , N. Xu

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

We studied the behavior of nontrivial Dirac fermion states in an antiferromagnetic metal SmBi using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES). The experimental results exhibit multiple Fermi pockets around $\overline{\Gamma}$ and…

Dirac points lie at the heart of many fascinating phenomena in condensed matter physics, from massless electrons in graphene to the emergence of conducting edge states in topological insulators [1, 2]. At a Dirac point, two energy bands…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-06-26 Leticia Tarruell , Daniel Greif , Thomas Uehlinger , Gregor Jotzu , Tilman Esslinger

The remarkable properties of graphene stem from its two-dimensional (2D) structure, with a linear dispersion of the electronic states at the corners of the Brillouin zone (BZ) forming a Dirac cone. Since then, other 2D materials have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-06 S. Sadeddine , H. Enriquez , A. Bendounan , P. Das , I. Vobornik , A. Kara , A. Mayne , F. Sirotti , G. Dujardin , H. Oughaddou

This paper aims to theoretically analyze the behavior of Dirac fermions in tilted Dirac cone material, particularly those that have diffused a barrier potential.Our results show that the degree of tilt in the y-direction can lead to…

We investigate the plasmons in bilayer black phosphorus (BP) with bias-driven formation of Dirac cones, by developing an effective two-band Hamiltonian that captures this electronic transition with great accuracy. We show that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-28 D. J. P. de Sousa , L. S. R. Cavalcante , Andrey Chaves , J. Milton Pereira , Tony Low

We propose a simple rule for finding Dirac cone electronic states in solids, that is neglecting those lattice atoms inert to the particular electronic bands, and pursuing the two dimensional (2D) graphene-like quasi-atom lattices with s-…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-04 XueJiao Chen , Lei Liu , DeZhen Shen

Dirac semimetals lack a simple bulk-boundary correspondence. Recently, Dirac materials with four-fold rotation symmetry have been shown to exhibit a higher order bulk-hinge correspondence: they display "higher order Fermi arcs," which are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-25 Yuan Fang , Jennifer Cano

We performed an angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy study of BaFe2As2, which is the parent compound of the so-called 122 phase of the iron-pnictide high-temperature superconductors. We reveal the existence of a Dirac cone in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-04-23 P. Richard , K. Nakayama , T. Sato , M. Neupane , Y. -M. Xu , J. H. Bowen , G. F. Chen , J. L. Luo , N. L. Wang , H. Ding , T. Takahashi

We calculate the dynamic polarizability under the random phase approximation for the dice lattice. This two-dimensional system gives rise to massless Dirac fermions with pseudospin-1 in the low-energy quantum excitation spectrum, providing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 John D. Malcolm , Elisabeth J. Nicol

We study the properties of graphene wormholes in which a short nanotube acts as a bridge between two graphene sheets, where the honeycomb carbon lattice is curved from the presence of 12 heptagonal defects. By taking the nanotube bridge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-09 J. Gonzalez , J. Herrero

We show that a planar array of bipolar waveguides in graphene can be used to engineer gapped and tilted two-dimensional Dirac cones within the electronic band structure. The presence of these gapped and tilted Dirac cones is demonstrated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-02 A. Wild , R. R. Hartmann , E. Mariani , M. E. Portnoi

Two-dimensional (2D) materials with Dirac cones have been intrigued by many unique properties, i.e., the effective masses of carriers close to zero and Fermi velocity of ultrahigh, which yields a great possibility in high-performance…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-10 Tao Yang , Xingang Jiang , Wencai Yi , Xiaomin Cheng , Xiaobing Liu

The enchanting Dirac fermions in graphene stimulated us to seek for other two-dimensional (2D) Dirac materials, and boron monolayers may be a good candidate. So far, a number of monolayer boron sheets have been theoretically predicted, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Honghong Zhang , Yuee Xie , Zhongwei Zhang , Chengyong Zhong , Yafei Li , Zhongfang Chen , Yuanping Chen

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

The Dirac electrons of graphene, an intrinsic zero gap semiconductor, uniquely carry spin and pseudospin that give rise to many fascinating electronic and transport properties. While isolated zigzag graphene nanoribbons are…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-22 M. X. Chen , M. Weinert

We report anisotropic Dirac-cone surface bands on a side-surface geometry of the topological insulator Bi$_2$Se$_3$ revealed by first-principles density-functional calculations. We find that the electron velocity in the side-surface Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Chang-Youn Moon , Jinhee Han , Hyungjun Lee , Hyoung Joon Choi

We study the electronic and transport properties of a graphene-based superlattice theoretically by using an effective Dirac equation. The superlattice consists of a periodic potential applied on a single-layer graphene deposited on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-26 Jonas R. F. Lima

Using density functional theory combined with orbital-selective band unfolding techniques, we study the effective band structure of silicene($3\times3$)/Ag(111)($4\times4$) structure. Consistent with the ARPES spectra recently obtained by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-14 Chao Lian , Sheng Meng