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The topological properties of materials are, until now, associated with the features of their crystalline structure, although translational symmetry is not an explicit requirement of the topological phases. Recent studies of hopping models…

Materials that have zero-energy flat band states on the surface may show surface superconductivity. Here we report a theoretical observation that a Hamiltonian describing a thin slab of topological nodal line semimetal, has zero energy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-19 Protyush Nandi , Subinay Dasgupta

Three-dimensional topological insulators represent a new class of materials in which transport is governed by Dirac surface states while the bulk remains insulating. Due to helical spin polarization of the surface states, the coupling of a…

We provide evidence that, alongside topologically protected edge states, two-dimensional Chern insulators also support localised bulk states deep in their valance and conduction bands. These states manifest when local potential gradients…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-24 Chris N. Self , Alvaro Rubio-García , Juan Jose García-Ripoll , Jiannis K. Pachos

The collective excitations of electrons in the bulk or at the surface, namely plasmons, play an important role in the properties of materials, and have generated the field of plasmonics. We report the observation of a highly unusual plasmon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Partha Goswami , U. P. Tyagi

Topological nodal line (DNL) semimetals, formed by a closed loop of the inverted bands in the bulk, result in the nearly flat drumhead-like surface states with a high electronic density near the Fermi level. The high catalytic active sites…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-28 Jiangxu Li , Hui Ma , Shaobo Feng , Sami Ullah , Ronghan Li , Junhua Dong , Dianzhong Li , Yiyi Li , Xing-Qiu Chen

We numerically investigate the metastable equilibrium structure of deep supercooled and glassy water under pressure, covering the range of densities corresponding to the experimentally produced high-density and very-high-density amorphous…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-11-03 Riccardo Foffi , Francesco Sciortino

Riemann surfaces are geometric constructions in complex analysis that may represent multi-valued holomorphic functions using multiple sheets of the complex plane. We show that the energy dispersion of surface states in topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-10 Chen Fang , Ling Lu , Junwei Liu , Liang Fu

Among different topological and related phases of condensed matter, nodal semimetals occupy a special place - the electronic band topology in these materials is related to three-dimensional bulk, rather than to surface, states. A great…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 A. V. Pronin , M. Dressel

Metallic hydrogen, existing in remarkably extreme environments, was predicted to exhibit long-sought room-temperature superconductivity. Although the superconductivity of metallic hydrogen has not been confirmed experimentally,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-12 Zihan Zhang , Wendi Zhao , Defang Duan , Tian Cui

As the simplest element in nature, unraveling the phase diagram of hydrogen is a primary task for condensed matter physics. As conjectured many decades ago, in the low-temperature and high-pressure part of the phase diagram, solid hydrogen…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-14 Mehmet Dogan , Sehoon Oh , Marvin L. Cohen

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are a branch of two-dimensional materials which in addition to having an easy-to-exfoliate layered structure, also host semiconducting, metallic, superconducting, and topological properties in various…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-25 Suvodeep Paul , Saswata Talukdar , Ravi Shankar Singh , Surajit Saha

There is great interest in the study of topological insulator-based heterostructures due to expected emerging phenomena. However, a challenge of topological insulator (TI) research is the contribution of the bulk conduction to the TI…

Fluid polyamorphism, the existence of multiple amorphous fluid states in a single-component system, has been observed or predicted in a variety of substances. A remarkable example of this phenomenon is the fluid-fluid phase transition in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-09-21 Nathaniel R. Fried , Thomas J. Longo , Mikhail A. Anisimov

We report the existence of topologically charged nodal surface, a band degeneracy on a two-dimensional surface in momentum space that is topologically charged. We develop a Hamiltonian for such charged nodal surface, and show that such a…

Optics · Physics 2017-09-08 Meng Xiao , Shanhui Fan

The three-dimensional topological semimetals represent a new quantum state of matter. Distinct from the surface state in the topological insulators that exhibits linear dispersion in two-dimensional momentum plane, the three-dimensional…

Thermodynamic properties of quasiparticles in a graphene-based structures are investigated. Two graphene superconducting layers (one superconducting component is placed on the top layeredgraphene structure and the other component in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-26 Dima Bolmatov

We show how the two-band nature of superconductivity in noncentrosymmetric compounds leads to a variety of novel nonuniform superconducting states induced by a magnetic field. At low fields, a two-band helical state is realized, with a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-19 K. V. Samokhin

Recent years saw the complete classification of topological band structures, revealing an abundance of topological crystalline insulators. Here we theoretically demonstrate the existence of topological materials beyond this framework,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Daniel Varjas , Alexander Lau , Kim Pöyhönen , Anton R. Akhmerov , Dmitry I. Pikulin , Ion Cosma Fulga

We consider the coexistence of superconductivity(SC) and spin-density wave(SDW). The SC is presumed to be of $d_{x^2-y^2}+id_{xy} (d_1 + i d_2) $ type whereas the SDW order parameter is of $BCS$/$d_{x y} $ symmetry. The Hamiltonian having…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-18 Amit Gupta , Debanand Sa