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We investigate Dirac fermions on the surface of the topological insulator Bi2Se3 using scanning tunneling spectroscopy. Landau levels (LLs) are observed in the tunneling spectra in a magnetic field. In contrast to LLs of conventional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-12 T. Hanaguri , K. Igarashi , M. Kawamura , H. Takagi , T. Sasagawa

Type-II semi-Dirac fermions in two dimensions have been proposed to describe topologically nontrivial low-energy excitations in titanium/vanadium oxide heterostructures. These quasiparticles appear at the merger of three Dirac cones,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-19 Mohamed M. Elsayed , Taras I. Lakoba , Valeri N. Kotov

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

Here we comprehensively investigate Landau levels, Hofstadter butterfly and transport properties of a semi-Dirac nanoribbon in a perpendicular magnetic field using a recently developed real-space implementation of the Kubo formula based on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Priyanka Sinha , Shuichi Murakami , Saurabh Basu

We study proximity-induced spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in bilayer graphene/few-layer WSe2 heterostructure devices. Contact mode atomic force microscopy (AFM) cleaning yields ultra-clean interfaces and high-mobility devices. In a perpendicular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 Dongying Wang , Shi Che , Guixin Cao , Rui Lyu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Chun Ning Lau , Marc Bockrath

Recent studies on altermagnets have focused considerable attention on nonrelativistic effects that persist in the absence of spin-orbit coupling (SOC). As a result, the relative importance of various phenomena in altermagnets has commonly…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-22 Xukun Feng , Jin Cao , Lay Kee Ang , Shengyuan A. Yang , Cong Xiao , X. C. Xie

Two-dimensional and three-dimensional massless Dirac fermions can form a sequence of quasibound states with an attractive charged impurity. These quasibound states exhibit a discrete scaling symmetry, i.e., the energy ratio between two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-28 Mingyuan Sun

We propose a basic theory of nonrelativistic spinful electrons on curves and surfaces. In particular, we discuss the presence and effects of spin connections, which describe how spinors and vectors couple to the geometry of curves and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-25 Toru Kikuchi

Dirac-Weyl fermions are massless relativistic particles with a well-defined helicity which arise in the context of high-energy physics. Here we propose a quantum simulation of these paradigmatic fermions using multicomponent ultracold atoms…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-01-04 Z. Lan , N. Goldman , A. Bermudez , W. Lu , P. Ohberg

We carry out both the tight-binding model and the $ab\ initio$ to study the layered silicene, the spin, valley, sublattice degrees of freedom are taken into consider and the effects of electric field, magnetic field, and even the light in…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-06 Chen-Huan Wu

We investigate a longitudinal conductivity of a two-dimensional relativistic electron gas with a tilted Dirac cone in magnetic field. It is demonstrated that the conductivity behaves differently in the directions parallel and perpendicular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Igor Proskurin , Masao Ogata , Yoshikazu Suzumura

We study the energy levels of Dirac-Weyl fermions in graphene subject to a magnetic field with Rashba contribution in the minimal length situation. The exact solution for the energy dispersion of Dirac-like charge carriers coupled to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-09 Ahmed Jellal , Dariush Jahani , Omid Akhavan

Chiral fermionic quasiparticles emerge in certain quantum condensed matter systems such as Weyl semimetals, topological insulators, and spin-orbit coupled noncentrosymmetric metals. Here, a comprehensive theory of the chiral anomaly-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 Azaz Ahmad , Gautham Varma K. , Gargee Sharma

Dirac fermions, characterized by their linear dispersion and relativistic nature, have emerged as a prominent class of quasiparticles in condensed matter physics. While the Dirac equation, initially developed in the context of high-energy…

We study the effects of an external magnetic field on the properties of the quasiparticle spectrum of the class of 2+1 dimensional strongly coupled theories holographically dual to charged AdS$_4$ black holes at zero temperature. We uncover…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Tameem Albash , Clifford V. Johnson

A Dirac fermion emerges as a result of interplay between symmetry and topology in condensed matter. Current research moves towards investigating the Dirac fermions in the presence of manybody effects in correlated system. Here, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-15 J. W. Han , Sun-Woo Kim , W. S. Kyung , C. Kim , G. Cao , X. Chen , S. D. Wilson , Sangmo Cheon , J. S. Lee

We study the dynamics of the half-filled zeroth Landau level of Dirac fermions using mirror symmetry, a supersymmetric duality between certain pairs of $2+1$-dimensional theories. We show that the half-filled zeroth Landau level of a pair…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-09 Shamit Kachru , Michael Mulligan , Gonzalo Torroba , Huajia Wang

We revisit the problem of electron transport through mesoscopic rings with spin-orbit (SO) interaction. In the well-known path-integral approach, the scattering states for a quasi-1D ring with quasi-1D leads can be expressed in terms of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Arne Brataas

The anomalous spin transport coefficients of gapped Dirac electrons are studied with application to a quasi-two-dimensional organic conductor $\alpha$-(BETS)$_2$I$_3$ in mind. In the presence of a gap induced by spin-orbit interaction, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-04 Masao Ogata , Soshun Ozaki , Hiroyasu Matsuura

In two-dimensional electron systems (2DES) the breaking of the inversion, time-reversal and bulk crystal-field symmetries is interlaced with the effects of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) triggering exotic quantum phenomena. Here, we used…