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The recent discovery of Dirac semimetals represents a new achievement in our fundamental understanding of topological states of matter. Due to their topological surface states, high mobility, and exotic properties associated with bulk Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-13 Xianbo Xiao , Shengyuan A. Yang , Zhengfang Liu , Huili Li , Guanghui Zhou

Proximity orbital and spin-orbital effects of graphene on monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) are investigated from first-principles. The Dirac band structure of graphene is found to lie within the semiconducting gap of TMDCs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Martin Gmitra , Denis Kochan , Petra Högl , Jaroslav Fabian

A wide range of materials, like d-wave superconductors, graphene, and topological insulators, share a fundamental similarity: their low-energy fermionic excitations behave as massless Dirac particles rather than fermions obeying the usual…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-08-27 T. O. Wehling , A. M. Black-Schaffer , A. V. Balatsky

We propose a simple Hamiltonian to describe the motion and the merging of Dirac points in the electronic spectrum of two-dimensional electrons. This merging is a topological transition which separates a semi-metallic phase with two Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 G. Montambaux , F. Piechon , J. -N. Fuchs , M. O. Goerbig

We introduce the notion of a band-inverted, topological semimetal in two-dimensional nonsymmorphic crystals. This notion is materialized in the monolayers of MTe$_2$ (M $=$ W, Mo) if spin-orbit coupling is neglected. We characterize the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Lukas Muechler , Aris Alexandradinata , Titus Neupert , Roberto Car

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Hong-Ya Xu , Guang-Lei Wang , Liang Huang , Ying-Cheng Lai

We perform a symmetry analysis of a 2D electron system in HgTe/HgCdTe quantum wells in the situation when the chemical potential is outside of the gap, so that the bulk of the quantum well is conducting. In order to investigate quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-10 P. M. Ostrovsky , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin

The recently discovered topological Dirac semimetal represents a new exotic quantum state of matter. Topological Dirac semimetals can be viewed as three dimensional analogues of graphene, in which the Dirac nodes are protected by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-12 Rui Chen , Dong-Hui Xu , Bin Zhou

The quantum geometry, comprising Berry curvature and quantum metric, plays a fundamental role in governing electron transport phenomena in solids. Recent studies show that the quantum metric dipole drives scattering-free nonlinear Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Tong-Yang Zhao , An-Qi Wang , Zhen-Tao Zhang , Zheng-Yang Cao , Xing-Yu Liu , Zhi-Min Liao

A continuous deformation of a Hamiltonian possessing at low energy two Dirac points of opposite chiralities can lead to a gap opening by merging of the two Dirac points. In two dimensions, the critical Hamiltonian possesses a semi-Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 P. Adroguer , D. Carpentier , G. Montambaux , E. Orignac

We calculate the differential, total, and transport cross-sections for scattering of two-dimensional massless Dirac electrons by a circular barrier. For scatterer of a small radius, the cross-sections are dominated by quantum effects such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-02 Jhih-Sheng Wu , Michael M. Fogler

In a system with a Dirac-like linear dispersion there are always states that fulfill the resonance condition for electromagnetic radiation of arbitrary frequency $\Omega$. When a flat band is present two kinds of resonant transitions are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 M. A. Mojarro , V. G. Ibarra-Sierra , J. C. Sandoval-Santana , R. Carrillo-Bastos , Gerardo G. Naumis

The material termed three-dimensional (3D) Dirac semimetal has attracted great interests recently, since it is an electronic analogue to two-dimensional graphene. Starting from this novel phase, various topologically distinct phases may be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-17 L. P. He , X. C. Hong , J. K. Dong , J. Pan , Z. Zhang , J. Zhang , S. Y. Li

The extraordinary electronic properties of Dirac materials, the two-dimensional partners of Weyl semimetals, arise from the linear crossings in their band structure. When the dispersion around the Dirac points is tilted, the emergence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 M. Milićević , G. Montambaux , T. Ozawa , I. Sagnes , A. Lemaître , L. Le Gratiet , A. Harouri , J. Bloch , A. Amo

Scattering of a 2D Dirac electrons on a rectangular matrix potential barrier is considered using the formalism of spinor transfer matrices. It is shown, in particular, that in the absence of the mass term, the Klein tunneling is not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-22 Mikhail Erementchouk , Pinaki Mazumder , M. A. Khan , Michael N. Leuenberger

The three dimensional (3D) Dirac semimetal, which has been predicted theoretically, is a new electronic state of matter. It can be viewed as 3D generalization of graphene, with a unique electronic structure in which conduction and valence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-10 Sergey Borisenko , Quinn Gibson , Danil Evtushinsky , Volodymyr Zabolotnyy , Bernd Buechner , Robert J. Cava

The aim of this habilitation thesis is to present recent results, obtained during the period 2012-2017, related to interaction effects in condensed matter physics systems such as planar Dirac liquids, e.g., graphene and graphene-like…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-22 S. Teber

Quantum transition probabilities and quantum entanglement for two-qubit states of a four level trapped ion quantum system are computed for time-evolving ionic states driven by Jaynes-Cummings Hamiltonians with interactions mapped onto a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Victor A. S. V. Bittencourt , Alex E. Bernardini , Massimo Blasone

We study quantum transport and scattering of massless Dirac fermions by spatially localized static magnetic fields. The employed model describes in a unified manner the effects of orbital magnetic fields, Zeeman and exchange fields in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 A. Zazunov , A. Kundu , A. Hütten , R. Egger

Charge carriers in graphene are chiral quasiparticles ("massless Dirac fermions"). Graphene provides therefore an amazing opportunity to study subtle quantum relativistic effects in condensed matter experiment. Here I review a theory of one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-12 M. I. Katsnelson