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Two-dimensional Dirac materials with a flat band have been demonstrated to possess a plethora of unusual electronic properties, but the optical properties of these materials are less studied. Utilizing $\alpha$-$\mathcal{T}_3$ lattice as a…
The $\alpha$-$T_3$ model extrapolates between the pseudospin $S=1/2$ honeycomb lattice of graphene and the pseudospin $S=1$ dice lattice via parameter $\alpha$. We present calculations of the magnetic properties of this hybrid pseudospin…
The popularity of graphene--a pseudospin-1/2 two-dimensional Dirac-Weyl material--has prompted the search for related materials and the characterization of their properties. In this work, the magneto-optical conductivity is calculated for…
The generalized tight-binding model, based on the subenvelope functions of distinct sublattices, is developed to investigate the magnetic quantization in sliding bilayer graphenes. The relative shift of two graphene layers induces a…
Landau level quantization in graphene reflects the Dirac nature of its quasiparticles and has been found to exhibit an unusual integer quantum Hall effect. In particular the lowest Landau level can be thought as shared equally by electrons…
The optical conductivity of graphene, bilayer graphene, and graphite in quantizing magnetic fields is studied. Both dynamical conductivities, longitudinal and Hall's, are analytically evaluated. The conductivity peaks are explained in terms…
The optical conductivity of graphene and bilayer graphene in quantizing magnetic fields is studied. Both dynamical conductivities, longitudinal and Hall's, are analytically evaluated. The conductivity peaks are explained in terms of…
Quantum interference is studied in a three-band model of pseudospin-one fermions in the $\alpha-\mathcal{T}_3$ lattice. We derive a general formula for magnetoconductivity that predicts a rich crossover between weak localization (WL) and…
The $\alpha$-$T_3$ lattice, an interpolation model between the honeycomb lattice of graphene($\alpha=0$) and the dice lattice($\alpha=1$), undergoes a topological phase transition across $\alpha=1/\sqrt{2}$ when exposed to a circularly…
We study correlation effects in a three-band extended Hubbard model of Cu -- O planes within the 1/N mean field approach, in the infinite U limit. We investigate the emerging phase diagram and discuss the low energy scales associated with…
We provide a novel setup for generalizing the two-dimensional pseudospin S=1/2 Dirac equation, arising in graphene's honeycomb lattice, to general pseudospin-S. We engineer these band structures as a nearest-neighbor hopping Hamiltonian…
Frequency dependent electronic transport is investigated for a two-dimensional disordered system in the presence of a strong perpendicular static magnetic field. The ac-conductivity is calculated numerically from Kubo's linear response…
The energies as a function of the magnetic field ($H$) and the pressure are studied theoretically in the tight-binding model for the two-dimensional organic conductor, $\alpha$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$, in which massless Dirac fermions are…
Quantum oscillations offer a powerful probe for the geometry and topology of the Fermi surface in metals. Onsager's semiclassical quantization relation governs these periodic oscillations in 1/B, leading to a linear Landau fan diagram.…
The $\alpha$-$T_3$ model is characterized by a variable Berry phase that changes continuously from $\pi$ to $0$. We take advantage of this property to highlight the effects of this underlying geometrical phase on a number of physical…
Magneto-optical transitions between Landau levels can provide precise spectroscopic information on the electronic structure and excitation spectra of graphene, enabling probes of substrate and many-body effects. We calculate the…
Physics of two-dimensional electron gases under perpendicular magnetic field often displays three distinct stages when increasing the field amplitude: a low field regime with classical magnetotransport, followed at intermediate field by a…
The nature of relativistic electrons in solids depends on the precise shape of the underlying band structure. Prominently, symmetry-related mechanisms, such as the breaking of time reversal symmetry in topological insulators, can lead to…
We study the three-dimensional Ginzburg-Landau model of superconductivity for strong applied magnetic fields varying between the second and third critical fields. In this regime, it is known from physics that superconductivity should be…
We generalize Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) semi-classical equations for pseudospin-1 $\alpha-\mathcal{T}_3$ materials with arbitrary hopping parameter $0 < \alpha < 1$, which includes the dice lattice and graphene as two limiting cases.…