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The effect of a modulated magnetic field on the electronic structure of neutral graphene is examined in this paper. It is found that application of a small staggered modulated magnetic field does not destroy the Dirac-cone structure of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-09 Lei Xu , Jin An , Chang-De Gong

Strain engineering of graphene takes advantage of one of the most dramatic responses of Dirac electrons enabling their manipulation via strain-induced pseudo-magnetic fields. Numerous theoretically proposed devices, such as resonant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 R. Banerjee , V. -H. Nguyen , T. Granzier-Nakajima , L. Pabbi , A. Lherbier , A. R. Binion , J. -C. Charlier , M. Terrones , E. W. Hudson

CuFeS$_2$ is an altermagnetic semiconductor that is lattice-matched with silicon and has a high N\'eel temperature. It is nonpolar and magnetically compensated in its structural ground state. However, the crystal belongs to a magnetic…

We examine the possible existence of Dirac semimetal with magnetic order in a two-dimensional system with a nonsymmorphic symmetry by using the Hartree-Fock mean-field theory within the Hubbard model. We locate the region in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-09 Garima Goyal , Dheeraj Kumar Singh

The pseudo-magnetic field generated by mechanical strain in graphene can have dramatic consequences on the behavior of electrons and holes. Here we show that pseudo-magnetic field fluctuations present in crumpled graphene can induce…

Extremely large positive magnetoresistance (XMR) was found in a nonmagnetic semimetal InBi. Using several single crystals with different residual resistivity ratios (RRRs), we revealed that the XMR strongly depended on the RRR (sample…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-12 K. Okawa , M. Kanou , H. Namiki , T. Sasagawa

We study the electronic structure of Dirac fermions scattered by double barrier potential in graphene under strain effect. We show that traction and compression strains can be used to generate fermion beam collimation, 1D channels, surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-01 El Bouâzzaoui Choubabi , Abdellatif Kamal , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli

Spin-orbitronics and Dirac quasiparticles are two fields of condensed matter physics initiated independently about a decade ago. Here we predict that Dirac quasiparticles can be controlled by the spin-orbit torque reorientation of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-15 Libor Šmejkal , Jakub Železný , Jairo Sinova , Tomáš Jungwirth

Strain is ubiquitous in solid-state materials, but despite its fundamental importance and technological relevance, leveraging externally applied strain to gain control over material properties is still in its infancy. In particular, strain…

The enchanting Dirac fermions in graphene stimulated us to seek for other two-dimensional (2D) Dirac materials, and boron monolayers may be a good candidate. So far, a number of monolayer boron sheets have been theoretically predicted, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Honghong Zhang , Yuee Xie , Zhongwei Zhang , Chengyong Zhong , Yafei Li , Zhongfang Chen , Yuanping Chen

The quantum limit can be easily reached in the Dirac semimetals under the magnetic field, which will lead to some exotic many-body physics due to the high degeneracy of the topological zeroth Landau bands (LBs). By solving the effective…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-13 Zhida Song , Zhong Fang , Xi Dai

We predict nonlinear optical polarization rotation in two dimensional massless Dirac systems including graphene and 8-$Pmmn$ borophene. When illuminated, a continuous wave optical field leads to a nonlinear steady state of photo-excited…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Ashutosh Singh , Saikat Ghosh , Amit Agarwal

We report a theoretical description of novel spin-orbit torque components emerging in two-dimensional Dirac materials with broken inversion symmetry. In contrast to usual metallic interfaces where field-like and damping-like torque…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-11 Joaquín Medina Dueñas , José H. García , Stephan Roche

In the present work, we investigated the electronic and elastic properties in equilibrium and under strain of the type-II Dirac semimetal NiTe$_2$ using density functional theory (DFT). Our results demonstrate the tunability of Dirac nodes'…

Intrinsic bilayer graphene is a gapless semimetal. Under the application of a bias field it becomes a semiconductor with a direct band gap that is proportional to the applied field. Under a layer-asymmetric strain (where the upper layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-04 J. A. Crosse

We present the successful realization of four-dimensional (4D) semimetal bands featuring tensor monopoles, achieved using superconducting quantum circuits. Our experiment involves the creation of a highly tunable diamond energy diagram with…

The role of staggered potential on light-induced spin and pseudo-spin polarization has been investigated in silicene. It has been shown that non-equilibrium spin and pseudo-spin polarizations are emerged in silicene sheet by applying an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-25 N. Shahabi , A. Phirouznia

We investigate electric and magnetic properties of graphene with rotationally symmetric strain. The strain generates large pseudo magnetic field with alternating sign in space, which forms a strongly confined quantum dot connected to six…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Kyung-Joong Kim , Yaroslav Blanter , Kang-Hun Ahn

Pure spin currents carry information in quantum spintronics and could play an essential role in the next generation low-energy-consumption electronics. Here we theoretically predict that the magnetic field can induce a quantum spin current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-27 Jing Wang , Biao Lian , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Single-layer graphenes subject to periodic lateral strains are artificial crystals that can support boundary spectra with an intrinsic polarity. These are analyzed by comparing the effects of periodic magnetic fields and strain-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 Vo Tien Phong , E. J. Mele