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Proximity-induced magnetic effects on the surface Dirac spectra of topological insulators are investigated by scanning tunneling spectroscopic (STS) studies of bilayer structures consisting of undoped Bi2Se3 thin films on top of Cr-doped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-25 C. -C. Chen , M. L. Teague , L. He , X. Kou , M. Lang , W. Fan , N. Woodward , K. -L. Wang , N. -C. Yeh

We show that the energy gap induced by ferromagnetically aligned magnetic impurities on the surface of a topological insulator can be filled, due to scattering off the non-magnetic potential of the impurities. In both a continuum surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 A. M. Black-Schaffer , A. V. Balatsky , J. Fransson

We have calculated the dynamical polarization, plasmons and damping rates in semi-Dirac bands (SDB's) with zero band gap and half-linear, half-parabolic low-energy spectrum. The obtained plasmon dispersions are strongly anisotropic and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Gabrielle Ross-Harvey , Andrii Iurov , Liubov Zhemchuzhna , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang

Continuous symmetries lead to universal slow relaxation of correlation functions in quantum many-body systems. In this work, we study how local symmetry-breaking impurities affect the dynamics of these correlation functions using Brownian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 Yahui Li , Pablo Sala , Frank Pollmann , Sanjay Moudgalya , Olexei Motrunich

We calculate the quasiparticle properties of chiral two-dimensional Dirac electrons in graphene within the Landau Fermi Liquid scheme based on $GW$ approximation in the presence of disorder. Disorder effects due to charged impurity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Qaiumzadeh , N. Arabchi , R. Asgari

The effect of a number of mechanisms designed to suppress decoherence in open quantum systems are studied with respect to their effectiveness at slowing down the loss of entanglement. The effect of photonic band-gap materials and frequency…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-09 Sandeep K Goyal , Subhashish Banerjee , Sibasish Ghosh

Disorder effects in the thermodynamic properties of a ideal Bose gas confined in a semi-infinite multi-layer structure %described by $M$ permeable barriers within a box of thickness $L$ and infinite lateral extent, are analyzed. The layers…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-07-20 V. E. Barragán , M. Fortes , M. A. Solís , P. Salas

The pointlike impurity scattering is studied for a superconductor with different pairing symmetries based on a minimal two band model proposed by S. Raghu $et$ $al.$ [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 77}, R220503 (2008)], and the self-consistent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Tao Zhou , Xiang Hu , Jian-Xin Zhu , C. S. Ting

We investigate the effect of unconventional density wave (UDW) condensate on an Anderson impurity using large-N technique at T=0. In accordance with previous treatments of a Kondo impurity in pseudogap phases, we find that Kondo effect…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Balázs Dóra

Reconstructing a density of states or similar distribution from moments or continued fractions is an important problem in calculating the electronic and vibrational structure of defective or non-crystalline solids. For single bands a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-20 Roger Haydock , C. M. M. Nex

The surface states of a topological insulator are described by an emergent relativistic massless Dirac equation in 2+1 dimensions. In contrast to graphene, there is an odd number of Dirac points, and the electron spin is directly coupled to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Qin Liu , Chao-Xing Liu , Cenke Xu , Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We study the effect of disorder on massless, spinful Dirac fermions in two spatial dimensions with attractive interactions, and show that the combination of disorder and attractive interactions is deadly to the Dirac semimetal phase. First,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-15 Rahul Nandkishore , Joseph Maciejko , David A. Huse , S. L. Sondhi

We contrast the effects of non-magnetic impurities on the properties of superconductors having a \dw\ order parameter, and a highly anisotropic s-wave (ASW) gap with the same nodal structure. The non-vanishing, impurity induced,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 R. Fehrenbacher , M. R. Norman

We for the first time demonstrate that the widely existed nonlinear waves such as rogue waves, contain Dirac monopoles. We find that the density zeros of these nonlinear waves on an extended complex plane can constitute the Dirac virtual…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-08-16 L. -C. Zhao , L. -Z. Meng , Y. -H. Qin , Z. -Y. Yang , J. Liu

We analyze the Bragg regime of the two-particle Kapitza-Dirac arrangement, completing the basic theory of this effect. We provide a detailed evaluation of the detection probabilities for multi-mode states, showing that a complete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Pedro Sancho

We demonstrate theoretically that the interaction of electrons in gapped Dirac materials (gapped graphene and transition-metal dichalchogenide monolayers) with a strong off-resonant electromagnetic field (dressing field) substantially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-02 O. V. Kibis , K. Dini , I. V. Iorsh , I. A. Shelykh

We develop a method for the accurate reconstruction of non-bandlimited finite rate of innovation signals on the sphere. For signals consisting of a finite number of Dirac functions on the sphere, we develop an annihilating filter based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Yahya Sattar , Zubair Khalid , Rodney A. Kennedy

It is shown that the carrier of a bounded localized free Dirac wavefunction shrinks from infinity and subsequently expands to infinity again. The motion occurs isotropicly at the speed of light. In between there is the phase of rebound,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-07-10 Domenico P. L. Castrigiano

In this paper, the influence of disorder on 1D periodic lattice of resonant scatterers is inspected. These later have multiple resonance frequencies which produce bandgap in the transmission spectrum. One peculiarity of the presented system…

Optics · Physics 2014-10-09 Olivier Richoux , Agnès Maurel , Vincent Pagneux

Restructuring of electronic spectrum in a buckled silicene monolayer under some applied voltage between its two sublattices and in presence of certain impurity atoms is considered. A special attention is given to formation of localized…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-01-20 Yuriy G. Pogorelov , Vadim M. Loktev