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In [Ammari et al., SIAM J Math Anal., 52 (2020), pp. 5441--5466], the first author with collaborators proved the existence of Dirac dispersion cones at subwavelength scales in bubbly honeycomb phononic crystals. In this paper, we study the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-09 Habib Ammari , Xin Fu , Wenjia Jing

This paper offers a geometric framework for modeling port-Hamiltonian systems on discrete manifolds. The simplicial Dirac structure, capturing the topological laws of the system, is defined in terms of primal and dual cochains related by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-01-30 Marko Seslija , Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen , Arjan van der Schaft

The spectral localizer consists of placing the Hamiltonian in a Dirac trap. For topological insulators its spectral asymmetry is equal to the topological invariants, providing a highly efficient tool for numerical computation. Here this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Hermann Schulz-Baldes , Tom Stoiber

The discovery of a new type of solitons occuring in periodic systems without photonic bandgaps is reported. Solitons are nonlinear self-trapped wave packets. They have been extensively studied in many branches of physics. Solitons in…

In this study, using the Dirac continuum model combined with the split-operator technique, we investigate the propagation dynamics of wave packets in graphene in the presence of circular potential barriers arranged in square and triangular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 G. M. Milibaeva , H. T. Yusupov , D. G. Berdiyorova , Y. Rakhimova , M. Yusupov , A. Chaves , Kh. Rakhimov

The interaction of a wave packet (and in particular the wave front) with a mass barrier is investigated in one dimension. We discuss the main features of the wave packet that are inherent to two-dimensional wave packets, such as compression…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-08 A. Matulis , M. Ramezani Masir , F. M. Peeters

Topological non-trivial band structures are the core problem in the field of topological materials. In this paper, we investigate the topological band structure in a system with controllable Dirac points from the perspective of wave packet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Dan-Dan Liang , Xin Shen , Zhi Li

A method to construct non-dissipative non-Dirac-hermitian relativistic quantum system that is isospectral with a Dirac-hermitian Hamiltonian is presented. The general technique involves a realization of the basic canonical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-17 Pijush K. Ghosh

We explore topological transitions in the type of propagation of surface electromagnetic modes in massive anisotropic tilted Dirac systems. The presence of tilting and mass gives rise to an indirect band gap that strongly modifies the joint…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-02 M. A. Mojarro , R. Carrillo-Bastos , Jesús A. Maytorena

For autonomous systems it is well known how to extract tunneling probabilities from wavepacket calculations. Here we present a corresponding approach for periodically time-dependent Hamiltonians, valid at all frequencies, field strengths,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Frank Grossmann

Two-dimensional semimetals with tilted Dirac cones in the electronic band structure are shown to exhibit spatial separation of carriers belonging to different valleys under illumination. In stark contrast to gapped Dirac materials this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-08 A. Wild , E. Mariani , M. E. Portnoi

In this paper, we construct isospectral Hamiltonians without shape invariant potentials for the relativistic quantum mechanical potentials such as the Dirac Oscillator and Hydrogen-like atom.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 K. Haritha , K. V. S. Shiv Chaitanya

The exciting discovery of bi-dimensional systems in condensed matter physics has triggered the search of their photonic analogues. In this letter, we describe a general scheme to reproduce some of the systems ruled by a tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Simon Yves , Thomas Berthelot , Mathias Fink , Geoffroy Lerosey , Fabrice Lemoult

Nodal noncentrosymmetric superconductors can host zero-energy flat bands of Majorana surface states within the projection of the nodal lines onto the surface Brillouin zone. Thus, these systems can have stationary, localized Majorana wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-26 Clara J. Lapp , Julia M. Link , Carsten Timm

The extraordinary electronic properties of Dirac materials, the two-dimensional partners of Weyl semimetals, arise from the linear crossings in their band structure. When the dispersion around the Dirac points is tilted, the emergence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 M. Milićević , G. Montambaux , T. Ozawa , I. Sagnes , A. Lemaître , L. Le Gratiet , A. Harouri , J. Bloch , A. Amo

Quantum mechanics asserts that a wave packet must inevitably spread as time progresses since the dispersion relation for the quantum waves is assumed to be quadratic in the momentum k. However, this assumption does not consider the standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Bruce

Mathematical analysis on electromagnetic waves in photonic graphene, a photonic topological material which has a honeycomb structure, is one of the most important current research topics. By modulating the honeycomb structure, numerous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Peng Xie , Yi Zhu

Robust laser sources are a fundamental building block for contemporary information technologies. Originating from condensed-matter physics, the concept of topology has recently entered the realm of optics, offering fundamentally new design…

We investigate topological vector potentials underlying the phases of nonlinear waves by performing Dirac's magnetic monopole theory in an extended complex plane, taking into account self-steepening effects while ignoring the usual cubic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-04-30 Yan-Hong Qin , Jin-Peng Yang , Li-Chen Zhao

Two-dimensional (2D) Dirac-like electron gases have attracted tremendous research interest ever since the discovery of free-standing graphene. The linear energy dispersion and non-trivial Berry phase play the pivotal role in the remarkable…