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We study transport across a time-dependent magnetic barrier present on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator. We show that such a barrier can be implemented for Dirac electrons on the surface of a three-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Adithi Udupa , K. Sengupta , Diptiman Sen

A study of fundamental geometrical interactions shows that the Dirac electron can be represented as a conformal wave. A Riemannian space is used, having coordinates that transform locally as spinors. The wave function becomes a gradient.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel C. Galehouse

Magnetic materials exhibiting topological Dirac fermions are attracting significant attention for their promising technological potential in spintronics. In these systems, the combined effect of the spin-orbit coupling and magnetic order…

The two-dimensional (2D) materials are highly susceptible to the influence of their neighbors, thereby enabling the design by proximity phenomena. We reveal a remarkable terahertz (THz) spin-light interaction in 2D Dirac materials that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Konstantin S. Denisov , Igor V. Rozhansky , Sergio O. Valenzuela , Igor Žutić

We derive the effective field theory from the microscopic Hamiltonian of interacting two-dimensional (pseudo) Dirac electrons by performing a statistic gauge transformation. The quantized Hall conductance are expected to be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-02 Huabi Zeng

The electronic structure of the semiconductor double concentric quantum nano-ring (DCQR) is studied under the single sub-band effective mass approach. We show that in the weakly coupled DCQR, that has been placed in transverse magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 I. Filikhin , S. Matinyan , J. Nimmo , B. Vlahovic

We present a theoretical study of momentum-resolved tunneling between parallel two-dimensional conductors whose charge carriers have a (pseudo-)spin-1/2 degree of freedom that is strongly coupled to their linear orbital momentum. Specific…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-12 L. Pratley , U. Zuelicke

Graphene two-dimensional nature combined with today lithography allows to achieve nanoelectronics devices smaller than the Dirac electrons wavelength. Here we show that in these graphene subwavelength nanodevices the electronic quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-08 Pierre Darancet , Valerio Olevano , Didier Mayou

We study a system of Dirac electrons with finite density of charge carriers coupled to an external electromagnetic field in two spatial dimensions, with a domain wall (DW) mass term. The interface between a thin-film ferromagnet and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-19 Yago Ferreiros , F. J. Buijnsters , M. I. Katsnelson

We calculate the oscillations of the DC conductance across a mesoscopic ring, simultaneously tuned by applied magnetic and electric fields orthogonal to the ring. The oscillations depend on the Aharonov-Bohm flux and of the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Capozza , D. Giuliano , P. Lucignano , A. Tagliacozzo

The spectrum of tight binding electrons on a square lattice with half a magnetic flux quantum per unit cell exhibits two Dirac points at the band center. We show that, in the presence of an additional uniaxial staggered potential, this pair…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-06 P. Delplace , G. Montambaux

The electronic structure of a graphene superlattice composed by two periodic regions with different Fermi velocity, energy gap and electrostatic potential is investigated by using an effective Dirac-like Hamiltonian. It must be expected…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-04-07 Jonas R. F. Lima

Periodically driven systems can host many interesting and intriguing phenomena. The irradiated two-dimensional Dirac systems, driven by circularly polarized light, are the most attractive thanks to intuitive physical view of the absorption…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Jin-Yu Zou , Bang-Gui Liu

We study Dirac fermions in two spatial dimensions (2D) coupled to strongly fluctuating U(1) gauge fields in the presence of quenched disorder. Such systems are dual to theories of free Dirac fermions, which are vortices of the original…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-03 Hart Goldman , Michael Mulligan , S. Raghu , Gonzalo Torroba , M. Zimet

The emergence of strong relativistic spin-orbit effects in low-dimensional systems provides a rich opportunity for exploring unconventional states of matter. Here, we present a route to realise tunable relativistic band structures based on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-20 L. M. Martelo , Aires Ferreira

We investigate the emergence of extra Dirac points in the electronic structure of a periodically spaced barrier system, i.e., a superlattice, on single-layer graphene, using a Dirac-type Hamiltonian. Using square barriers allows us to find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Barbier , P. Vasilopoulos , F. M. Peeters

The behavior of the dc-component of the current along a quantum loop of tight-binding electrons threaded by a magnetic flux that varies linearly in time Phi_M(t)= Phi t is investigated. We analize the electron transport in different kinds…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Liliana Arrachea

The Dirac equation is a paradigmatic model that describes a range of intriguing properties of relativistic spin-1/2 particles, from the existence of antiparticles to Klein tunneling. However, the Dirac-like equations have found application…

Recent experiments, combing ultrafast strong-field irradiation of surfaces with time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, allow for monitoring the time-dependent charge carrier dynamics and the build-up of transient sidebands due…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 Yuriko Baba , Vanessa Junk , Wolfgang Hogger , Francisco Domínguez-Adame , Rafael A. Molina , Klaus Richter

We investigate new properties of the Dirac electrons in the finite graphene sample under perpendicular magnetic field that emerge when an in-plane electric bias is also applied. The numerical analysis of the Hofstadter spectrum and of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 B. Ostahie , M. Nita , A. Aldea