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We discuss plasmons of biased twisted bilayer graphene when the Fermi level lies inside the gap. The collective excitations are a network of chiral edge plasmons (CEP) entirely composed of excitations in the topological electronic edge…

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We study chiral fermions electroweakly interacting with a background matter having the nonuniform density and the velocity arbitrarily depending on coordinates. The dynamics of this system is described approximately by finding the Berry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-25 Maxim Dvornikov

Molecular chirality plays an important role in chemistry and biology, allows control of biological interactions, affects drugs efficacy and safety, and promotes synthesis of new materials. In general, chirality manifests itself in optical…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-10 Yuanyang Xie , Alexey V. Krasavin , Anatoly V. Zayats

The optical responses of metals are often dominated by plasmonic resonances - the collective oscillations of interacting electron liquids. Here we unveil a new class of plasmons - quantum metric plasmons (QMPs) - that arise in a wide range…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-20 Arpit Arora , Mark S. Rudner , Justin C. W. Song

Van der Waals heterostructures of atomically thin layers with rotational misalignments, such as twisted bilayer graphene, feature interesting structural moir\'e superlattices. Due to the quantum coupling between the twisted atomic layers,…

Graphene bilayers with layer antisymmetric strains are studied using the Dirac-Harper model for a pair of single layer Dirac Hamiltonians coupled by a one-dimensional moir\'e-periodic interlayer tunneling amplitude. This model hosts low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-13 Abigail Timmel , E. J. Mele

Here, we introduce and apply non-Abelian tensor Berry connections to topological phases in multi-band systems. These gauge connections behave as non-Abelian antisymmetric tensor gauge fields in momentum space and naturally generalize…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-18 Giandomenico Palumbo

Strong optical nonreciprocity at the nanoscale, relying on extreme one-way modes and backscattering suppression, can enable fundamentally new approaches in optoelectronics and plasmonics. Of special interest is achieving nonreciprocity in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-31 Dan S. Borgnia , Trung V. Phan , Leonid S. Levitov

Fine control of the chiral light-matter interaction at the nanoscale, by exploiting designed metamaterial architecture, represents a cutting-edge craft in the field of biosensing, quantum and classic nanophotonics. Recently, artificially…

We theoretically investigate a nonlinear spin Hall effect in $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric antiferromagnetic metals, which serve as an efficient spin current generator. We elucidate that an emergent spin-dependent Berry curvature dipole is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-23 Satoru Hayami , Megumi Yatsushiro , Hiroaki Kusunose

Recently, a chirality-driven contribution to the anomalous Hall effect has been found that is induced by the Berry phase and does not directly involve spin-orbit coupling. In this paper, we will investigate this effect numerically in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-16 G. Metalidis , P. Bruno

Recent activity in the area of chiroptical phenomena has been focused on the connection between structural asymmetry, electron spin configuration and light matter interactions in chiral semiconductors. In these systems, spin-splitting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Peter C. Sercel , Matthew P. Hautzinger , Ruyi Song , Volker Blum , Matthew C. Beard

We propose a new current-driven mechanism for achieving significant plasmon dispersion nonreciprocity in systems with narrow, strongly hybridized electron bands. The magnitude of the effect is controlled by the strength of electron-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-10 Michał Papaj , Cyprian Lewandowski

The symmetry of a material's crystal structure has a significant effect on the energy states of its electrons. Inversion symmetry, for example, results in energetically degenerate electron energy bands for electrons with wave vectors…

The Berry curvature dipole is well-known to cause Hall conductivity. This study expands on previous results to demonstrate how two- and three-dimensional materials react under a tilted magnetic field in the linear and nonlinear regimes. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Narjes Kheirabadi , YuanDong Wang

In non-relativistic physics, the concepts of geometry and topology are usually applied to characterize spatial structures or structures in momentum space. We introduce the concept of temporal geometry, which encompasses the geometric and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Andres F. Ordonez , Aycke Roos , Pablo M. Maier , Piero Decleva , David Ayuso , Olga Smirnova

The strong chiral light-matter interaction is crucial for various important fields such as chiral optics, quantum optics, and biomedical optics, driving a quest for the extreme intrinsic chirality assisted by ultrahigh quality ($Q$-) factor…

Altermagnets present a class of fully compensated collinear magnetic order, where the two sublattices are not related merely by time-reversal combined with lattice translation or inversion, but require an additional lattice rotation. This…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-12 Subhankar Khatua , Volodymyr P. Kravchuk , Kostiantyn V. Yershov , Jeroen van den Brink

In a slab geometry with large surface-to-bulk ratio, topological surface states such as Fermi arcs for Weyl or Dirac semimetals may dominate their low-energy properties. We investigate the collective charge oscillations in such systems,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-10 Debasmita Giri , Dibya Kanti Mukherjee , Sonu Verma , H. A. Fertig , Arijit Kundu

We investigate systems of spinless one-dimensional chiral fermions realized, e.g., in the arms of electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometers, at high energies. Taking into account the curvature of the fermionic spectrum and a finite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-09-13 Markus Heyl , Stefan Kehrein , Florian Marquardt , Clemens Neuenhahn