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Lifshitz transition represents a sudden reconstruction of Fermi surface structure, giving rise to anomalies in electronic properties of materials. Such a transition does not necessarily rely on symmetry-breaking and thus is topological. It…

Zirconium pentatelluride ZrTe$_5$, a fascinating topological material platform, hosts exotic chiral fermions in its highly anisotropic three-dimensional Dirac band and holds great promise advancing the next-generation information…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-19 Hang Chi , Cheng Zhang , Genda Gu , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Xi Dai , Qiang Li

We consider the Lifshitz topological transitions and the corresponding changes in the galvanomagnetic properties of a metal from the point of view of the general classification of open electron trajectories arising on Fermi surfaces of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-23 A. Ya. Maltsev

A current flowing through a superconductor induces a spatial modulation in its superconducting order parameter, characterized by a wavevector $Q$ related to the total momentum of a Cooper pair. Here we investigate this phenomenon in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Fabian G. Medina Cuy , Francesco Buccheri , Fabrizio Dolcini

The two-dimensional electron liquid, at the (001) interface between band insulators {L}a{A}l{O}$_3$ and {S}r{T}i{O}$_3$, undergoes Lifshitz transition as the interface is doped with carriers. At a critical carrier density, two new orbitals…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-11 S. Nandy , N. Mohanta , S. Acharya , A. Taraphder

We show how transitions between different Lifshitz phases in bilayer Dirac materials with and without spin-orbit coupling can be studied by driving the system. The periodic driving is induced by a laser and the resultant phase diagram is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Priyanka Mohan , Sumathi Rao

We find a series of topological phase transitions in a half-metal/superconductor heterostructure, by tuning the direction of the magnetization of the half-metal film. These include transitions between a topological superconducting phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-10-18 Lei Hao , C. S. Ting

One hallmark of the Weyl semimetal is the emergence of Fermi arcs (FAs) in the surface Brillouin zone that connect the projected Weyl nodes of opposite chirality. The unclosed FAs can give rise to various exotic effects that have attracted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-18 Yue Zheng , Wei Chen , Xiangang Wan , D. Y. Xing

The topological Lifshitz phase transition is studied systematically within an effective model of QCD, in which the chiral symmetry, broken at zero temperature, is not restored at high temperature and/or baryon chemical potential. It is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-02 Tran Huu Phat , Phung Thi Thu Ha , Nguyen Tuan Anh

Lithium, a prototypical simple metal under ambient conditions, has a surprisingly rich phase diagram under pressure, taking up several structures with reduced symmetry, low coordination numbers, and even semiconducting character with…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-26 Stephanie A. Mack , Sinéad M. Griffin , Jeffrey B. Neaton

While 203 K high temperature superconductivity in H3S has been interpreted by BCS theory in the dirty limit here we focus on the effects of hydrogen zero-point-motion and the multiband electronic structure relevant for multigap…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-04-14 Thomas Jarlborg , Antonio Bianconi

Within the Floquet theory of periodically driven quantum systems, we demonstrate that an off-resonant high-frequency electromagnetic field can induce the Lifshitz phase transition in periodical structures described by the one-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-04 I. V. Iorsh , D. D. Sedov , S. A. Kolodny , R. E. Sinitskiy , O. V. Kibis

Low-dimensional systems of interacting fermions in a synthetic gauge field have been experimentally realized using two-component ultra-cold Fermi gases in optical lattices. Using a two-leg ladder model that is relevant to these experiments,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-04-13 Chen-How Huang , Masaki Tezuka , Miguel A. Cazalilla

Using large-scale dynamical cluster quantum Monte Carlo simulations, we study the Lifshitz transition of the two dimensional Hubbard model with next-nearest-neighbor hopping ($t'$), chemical potential and temperature as control parameters.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-11-05 Kuang-Shing Chen , Zi Yang Meng , Thomas Pruschke , Juana Moreno , Mark Jarrell

In two-dimensional electronic lattices, changes in the topology of the Fermi surface (Lifshitz transitions) lead to Van Hove singularities characterized by a divergence in the electronic density of states. Van Hove singularities can enhance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Lakshmi Pullasseri , Luiz H. Santos

The Fermi surface topology of $cI$16 Li at high pressures is studied using a recently developed first-principles unfolding method. We find the occurrence of a Lifshitz transition at $\sim$43 GPa, which explains the experimentally observed…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-11-19 Chia-Hui Lin , Tom Berlijn , Wei Ku

We demonstrate, using $T=0$ first principles total energy calculations, that observed pressure-driven anomalies in the entire 122-pnictides family ($A$Fe$_2$As$_2$; $A$ = alkali earth element Ca, Sr, Ba) can be understood as consequences of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-01 Khandker Quader , Michael Widom

Topological superconductivity is an exotic phase of matter in which the fully gapped superconducting bulk hosts gapless Majorana surface states protected by topology. Intercalation of copper, strontium or niobium between the quintuple…

In Kondo lattice systems with mixed valence, such as YbAl3, interactions between localized electrons in a partially filled f shell and delocalized conduction electrons can lead to fluctuations between two different valence configurations…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-24 Shouvik Chatterjee , Jacob. P. Ruf , Haofei. I. Wei , Kenneth D. Finkelstein , Darrell G. Schlom , Kyle M. Shen

With a mean field approach, the heavy Fermi liquid in the two-dimensional Kondo lattice model is carefully considered in the presence of short-range antiferromagnetic correlations. As the ratio of the local Heisenberg superexchange coupling…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-10 Yu Liu , Guang-Ming Zhang