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In the presence of spin-orbit coupling two branches of the energy spectrum of 2D electrons get shifted in the momentum space. Application of in-plane magnetic field causes the splitting of the branches in energy. When both, spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Rajesh K. Malla , M. E. Raikh

In this letter, we analyze the topological response of a fermionic model defined on the Lieb lattice in presence of an electromagnetic field. The tight-binding model is built in terms of three species of spinless fermions and supports a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-23 N. Menezes , C. Morais Smith , Giandomenico Palumbo

Relativistic massless Dirac fermions can be probed with high-energy physics experiments, but appear also as low-energy quasi-particle excitations in electronic band structures. In condensed matter systems, their massless nature can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-15 M. Horio , C. E. Matt , K. Kramer , D. Sutter , A. M. Cook , Y. Sassa , K. Hauser , M. Månsson , N. C. Plumb , M. Shi , O. J. Lipscombe , S. M. Hayden , T. Neupert , J. Chang

The linear band crossings of 3D Dirac and Weyl semimetals are characterized by a charge chirality, the parallel or anti-parallel locking of electron spin to its momentum. Such materials are believed to exhibit a ${\bf E} \cdot {\bf B}$…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-01 Bing Cheng , Timo Schumann , Susanne Stemmer , N. P. Armitage

The low energy electronic excitations in single layer and bilayer graphite (graphene) resemble quantum-relativistic particles also known as Dirac Fermions (DF). They possess an internal degree of freedom, chirality, that leads to unusual…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Guohong Li , Eva Y. Andrei

In the absence of Lorentz symmetry, the pseudospin-1 counterpart of Weyl fermion (feroton) with linear dispersions and an exact flat band can emerge in condensed matter systems. The flat band branch of feroton is equivalent to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-10 Xi Luo , Fei-Ye Li , Yue Yu

We study theoretically the quantum transport properties of the Dirac fermions with spin-orbit interactions (SOIs) in graphene by using the method of Schwinger proper time together with decomposition over Landau level poles and Kubo formula.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-09 Kai-He Ding , Guanghui Zhou , Zhen-Gang Zhu

Spin-driven multiferroics exhibit strong magnetoelectric coupling, with notable polarization changes under a magnetic field, but these effects are usually limited to high-Z magnetic insulators with low electronic polarization. In this work,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-31 Ranquan Cao , Ruizhi Dong , Ruixiang Fei , Yugui Yao

Emergent quasiparticles with a Dirac dispersion in condensed matter systems can be described by the Dirac equation for relativistic electrons, in analogy with Dirac particles in high-energy physics. For example, electrons with a Dirac…

The surface states of topological insulators, which behave as charged massless Dirac fermions, are studied in the presence of a quantizing uniform magnetic field. Using the method of D.H. Lee[1], analytical formula satisfied by the energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-13 Oskar Vafek

We investigated the relativistic dynamics of oppositely charged two fermions interacting with an external uniform magnetic field. We chose the interaction of each fermion with the external magnetic field in the symmetric gauge, and obtained…

General Physics · Physics 2020-12-08 Abdullah Guvendi , Semra Gurtas Dogan

We study the transport properties of two dimensional electron systems with strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) doped with interacting magnetic impurities. Interactions between magnetic impurities cause the formation of magnetic clusters…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-16 A. N. Zarezad , J. Abouie

Two-dimensional (2D) superconductors that reside on substrates must be influenced by Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC). The intriguing effect of Rashba-type SOCs on iron-based superconductors (IBSs) has remained largely a mystery. In this…

Recently, many unexpected fine structures in electric, magnetic, and thermoelectric responses at extremely magnetic fields in topological materials have attracted tremendous interest. We propose a new mechanism of quantum oscillation beyond…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-31 C. M. Wang , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

We study excitonic effects in two-dimensional massless Dirac fermions with Coulomb interactions by solving the ladder approximation to the Bethe-Salpeter equation. It is found that the general 4-leg vertex has a power law behavior with the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-20 Jianhui Wang , H. A. Fertig , Ganpathy Murthy , L. Brey

The presence of spin-orbit (SO) interaction in a noncentrosymmetric superconductor, La2C3 (T_c~11 K) is demonstrated by muon spin rotation (muSR) in its normal state, where muSR spectra exhibit field-induced weak depolarization due to van…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Kadono , M. Hiraishi , M. Miyazaki , K. H. Satoh , S. Takeshita , S. Kuroiwa , S. Saura , J. Akimitsu

We theoretically study the spin susceptibility of Dirac semimetals using the linear response theory. The spin susceptibility is decomposed into an intraband contribution and an interband contribution. We obtain analytical expressions for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-22 Yuya Ominato , Kentaro Nomura

We derive an effective Hamiltonian which describes the dynamics of electrons in the conduction band of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) in the presence of perpendicular electric and magnetic fields. We discuss in detail both the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-18 Andor Kormányos , Viktor Zólyomi , Neil D. Drummond , Guido Burkard

Understanding and controlling the transport properties of interacting fermions is a key forefront in quantum physics across a variety of experimental platforms. Motivated by recent experiments in 1D electron channels written on the…

The dislocation in Dirac semimetal carries an emergent magnetic flux parallel to the dislocation axis. We show that due to the emergent magnetic field the dislocation accommodates a single fermion massless mode of the corresponding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-15 M. N. Chernodub , Mikhail Zubkov