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The spectrum of massless Dirac electrons on the side surface of a three-dimensional weak topological insulator is significantly affected by whether the number of unit atomic layers constituting the sample is even or odd; it has a…

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To obtain the total response of the system, the effect of disorder cannot be neglected, as it introduces a new contribution (i.e. extrinsic) in the total response of the system. In the study of dynamical (AC) effects, the interband response…

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We calculate the average single particle density of states in graphene with disorder due to impurity potentials. For unscreened short-ranged impurities, we use the non-self-consistent and self-consistent Born and $T$-matrix approximations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-18 Ben Yu-Kuang Hu , E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

We study the effects of random nonmagnetic impurities on the superconducting transition temperature $T_c$ in a two-band superconductor, where we assume the equal-time spin-singlet s-wave pair potential in each conduction band and the…

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We investigate the polaronic properties of a single impurity immersed in a weakly interacting bosonic environment confined within a one-dimensional double-well potential using an exact diagonalization approach. We find that an increase of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-03-14 Jie Chen , Simeon I. Mistakidis , Peter Schmelcher

We discuss the effect of an anisotropic impurity potential on the critical temperature, local density of states in the vicinity of a single impurity, and the quasiparticle density of states for a finite impurity concentration in a d-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Maciag , P. Pisarski , G. Haran

Despite extensive existing studies, a complete understanding of the role of disorder in affecting the physical properties of two-dimensional Dirac fermionic systems remains a standing challenge, largely due to obstacles encountered in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-04 Bo Fu , Yanru Chen , Weiwei Chen , Wei Zhu , Ping Cui , Qunxiang Li , Zhenyu Zhang , Qinwei Shi

We study zero-range processes which are known to exhibit a condensation transition, where above a critical density a non-zero fraction of all particles accumulates on a single lattice site. This phenomenon has been a subject of recent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-14 Paul Chleboun , Stefan Grosskinsky

We study in this paper time-reversal $\delta$-impurity scattering effects in the bulk of topological insulators (TI) in two and three dimensions. Specifically we consider how impurity scattering strength is affected by the bulk band…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-03 Cheung Chan , Tai-Kai Ng

We have investigated the effect of nonmagnetic impurities on the quasi-one-dimensional unconventional density wave (UDW) ground state. The thermodynamics were found to be close to those of a d-wave superconductor in the Born limit. Four…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Balázs Dóra , Attila Virosztek , Kazumi Maki

The unquenched spectral density of the Dirac operator at $\mu\neq0$ is complex and has oscillations with a period inversely proportional to the volume and an amplitude that grows exponentially with the volume. Here we show how the…

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We have investigated a new feature of impurity cyclotron resonances common to various localized potentials of graphene. A localized potential can interact with a magnetic field in an unexpected way in graphene. It can lead to formation of…

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We uncover a remarkable quantum scattering phenomenon in two-dimensional Dirac material systems where the manifestations of both classically integrable and chaotic dynamics emerge simultaneously and are electrically controllable. The…

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Superconducting films subject to an in-plane magnetic field exhibit a gapless superconducting phase. We explore the quasi-particle spectral properties of the gapless phase and comment on the transport properties. Of particular interest is…

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We investigate the spectral properties of a random matrix model, which in the large $N$ limit, embodies the essentials of the QCD partition function at low energy. The exact spectral density and its pair correlation function are derived for…

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The Dirac cone underlies many unique electronic properties of graphene and topological insulators, and its band structure--two conical bands touching at a single point--has also been realized for photons in waveguide arrays, atoms in…

We explore connections between the electronic density of states (DOS) in a conducting system and the frequency dependence of the scattering rate $1/\tau(\omega)$ inferred from infrared spectroscopy. We show that changes in the DOS upon the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 D. N. Basov , E. J. Singley , S. V. Dordevic

We calculate the tunneling density-of-states (DOS) of a disorder-free two-dimensional interacting electron system with a massless-Dirac band Hamiltonian. The DOS exhibits two main features: i) linear growth at large energies with a slope…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-10 A. Principi , Marco Polini , Reza Asgari , A. H. MacDonald

We describe both the Fermi velocity and the mass renormalization due to the two-dimensional Coulomb interaction in the presence of a thermal bath. To achieve this, we consider an anisotropic version of pseudo quantum electrodynamics (PQED),…

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