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We demonstrate analytically and numerically that the dispersive Dirac cone emulating an epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) behavior is a universal property within a family of plasmonic crystals consisting of two-dimensional (2D) metals. Our starting…
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Resonant optical excitation was used to create a macroscopic non-equilibrium ensemble of dark excitons with unprecedentedly long lifetime in a two-dimensional (2D) electron system placed in a quantizing magnetic field. Exotic three-particle…
Among a huge variety of known two-dimensional materials, some of them have anisotropic crystal structures; examples include so different systems as a few-layer black phoshphorus (phosphorene), beryllium nitride BeN$_4$, van der Waals magnet…
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