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Artificial lattices have been employed in many two-dimensional systems, including those of electrons, atoms and photons, in a quest for massless Dirac particles with flexibility and controllability. Periodically patterned molecule assembly…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-25 Zhenglu Li , Ting Cao , Meng Wu , Steven G. Louie

Standard field theoretic formulations of composite fermion theories for the anomalous metals that form at or near even-denominator filling fractions of the lowest Landau level do not possess Galilei invariance. To restore Galilei symmetry,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-08 Yen-Wen Lu , Prashant Kumar , Michael Mulligan

We consider a number of strongly-correlated quantum Hall states which are likely to be realized in bilayer quantum Hall systems at total Landau level filling fraction ${\nu_T}=1$. One state, the $(3,3,-1)$ state, can occur as an instability…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yong Baek Kim , Chetan Nayak , Eugene Demler , N. Read , S. Das Sarma

We review the recently proposed Dirac composite fermion theory of the half-filled Landau level.

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-14 Dam Thanh Son

Usually the quantum spin Hall states are expected to possess gapless, helical edge modes. Are there clean, non-interacting, quantum spin Hall states without gapless, edge modes? We show the generic, $n$-fold-symmetric, momentum planes of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-10 Alexander C. Tyner , Shouvik Sur , Danilo Puggioni , James M. Rondinelli , Pallab Goswami

The microscopic wave functions of the composite fermion theory can incorporate electron mass anisotropy by a trivial rescaling of the coordinates. These wave functions are very likely adiabatically connected to the actual wave functions of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-11 Ajit C. Balram , J. K. Jain

The term "particle-hole symmetry" is beset with conflicting meanings in contemporary physics. Conceived and written from a condensed-matter standpoint, the present paper aims to clarify and sharpen the terminology. In that vein, we propose…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-07-27 Martin R. Zirnbauer

We calculate the frequency-dependent longitudinal and Hall conductivities and the Faraday and Kerr rotation angles for a single sheet of anisotropic Dirac semimetal protected by nonsymmorphic symmetry in the presence of a Zeeman term…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-26 Amarnath Chakraborty , Guang Bian , Giovanni Vignale

The electronic state of \alpha-type organic Dirac fermion systems such as \alpha-(ET)_2I_3 or \alpha-(BETS)_2I_3 has been studied under magnetic fields using the four-band tight-binding model with Peierls phase factors. The validity of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-04 Toshihito Osada

Nonsymmorphic symmetries can give rise to Dirac semimetal (DSM) states. However, few studies have been conducted on DSMs in interacting systems. Here, we induce interacting DSM states in nonsymmorphic iridium oxides SrIrO$_3$, BaIrO$_3$ and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-18 Zhi-Ming Yang , Huan Li

We provide an effective description of a particle-hole symmetric state of electrons in a half-filled Landau level, starting from the traditional approach pioneered by Halperin, Lee and Read. Specifically, we study a system consisting of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-02 Michael Mulligan , S. Raghu , Matthew P. A. Fisher

The parity anomaly for Dirac fermions in two spatial dimensions has shaped perspectives in quantum field theory and condensed matter physics. In condensed matter it has evolved as a mechanism for half-quantized Hall responses in systems…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-10 Shun-Qing Shen

Dirac fermions interacting with a cylindrically symmetric quantum dot potential created in single and bilayer graphene are not confined but form quasi-bound states. The broadening of these quasi-bound states (i. e. the inverse of their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Matulis , F. M. Peeters

In this thesis we build a phenomenological, strongly coupled quantum field theory in $2+1$-dimensions through AdS/CFT holography, by building a $3+1$-dimensional, negatively curved gravity theory with a $SU(2)$ gauge field, and a scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-05 Sebastián Bahamondes

The pursuit of understanding parity anomaly in condensed matter systems has led to significant advancements in both theoretical and experimental research in recent years. In this study, we explore the parity anomaly of massless Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Huan-Wen Wang , Bo Fu , Shun-Qing Shen

We show here that an extension of the Hamiltonian theory developed by us over the years furnishes a composite fermion (CF) description of the $\nu =\frac{1}{2}$ state that is particle-hole (PH) symmetric, has a charge density that obeys the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-10 Ganpathy Murthy , R. Shankar

A theory is developed for the paired even-denominator fractional quantum Hall states in the lowest Landau level. We show that electrons bind to quantized vortices to form composite fermions, interacting through an exact instantaneous…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-14 Yuan-Ming Lu , Yue Yu , Ziqiang Wang

Almost all quantum Hall effect to date can be understood as {\em integral} quantum Hall effect of appropriate particles, namely electrons or composite fermions. This paper investigates theoretically the feasibility of nested states of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sudhansu S. Mandal , Jainendra K. Jain

This work pioneers the quantization of primordial fermion perturbations in hybrid Loop Quantum Cosmology (LQC). We consider a Dirac field coupled to a spatially flat, homogeneous, and isotropic cosmology, sourced by a scalar inflaton, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-08 Beatriz Elizaga Navascués , Mercedes Martín-Benito , Guillermo A. Mena Marugán

The half-quantized Hall conductance is characteristic of quantum systems with parity anomaly. Here we investigate topological and transport properties of a class of parity anomalous semimetals, in which massive Dirac fermions coexist with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Jin-Yu Zou , Bo Fu , Huan-Wen Wang , Zi-Ang Hu , Shun-Qing Shen