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This letter presents our findings on the recursive band gap engineering of chiral fermions in bilayer graphene doubly aligned with hBN. By utilizing two interfering moir\'{e} potentials, we generate a supermoir\'{e} pattern which…

Networks of interacting gyroscopes have proven to be versatile structures for understanding and harnessing finite-frequency topological excitations. Spinning components give rise to band gaps and topologically protected wave transport along…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Noah P. Mitchell , Ari M. Turner , William T. M. Irvine

We present a mechanism for the creation of gaps in the spectra of self-adjoint operators defined over a Hilbert space of functions on a graph, which is based on the process of graph decoration. The resulting Hamiltonians can be viewed as…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 Jeffrey H. Schenker , Michael Aizenman

From the general inverse theory of periodic Jacobi matrices, it is known that a periodic Jacobi matrix of minimal period $p \geq 2$ may have at most $p-2$ closed spectral gaps. We discuss the maximal number of closed gaps for…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-25 Andrew Arroyo , Faye Castro , Jake Fillman

We consider a periodic strip in the plane and the associated quantum waveguide with Dirichlet boundary conditions. We analyse finite segments of the waveguide consisting of $L$ periodicity cells, equipped with periodic boundary conditions…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sylwia Kondej , Ivan Veselic'

In this paper, we propose a new control design scheme for solving the obstacle avoidance problem for nonlinear driftless control-affine systems. The class of systems under consideration satisfies controllability conditions with iterated Lie…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-08 Victoria Grushkovskaya , Alexander Zuyev

The most general form of a marginal extended perturbation in a two-dimensional system is deduced from scaling considerations. It includes as particular cases extended perturbations decaying either from a surface, a line or a point for which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 L. Turban , B. Berche

We comprehensively investigate gap solitons and Bloch waves in one-dimensional nonlinear periodic systems. Our results show that there exists a composition relation between them: Bloch waves at either the center or edge of the Brillouin…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-13 Yongping Zhang , Zhaoxin Liang , Biao Wu

The desired shifts of the boundaries of spectral allowed zones of periodical systems are demonstrated. In particular, the phenomenon of merging neighbor allowed zones is exhibited and its simple explanation is given. It is also shown how to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. N. Zakhariev , V. M. Chabanov

Recent studies have shown some unusual nonlinear dispersion behaviors that are disconnected from the linear regime. However, existing analytical techniques, such as perturbation methods, fail to correctly capture these behaviors. Here we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-02 Weijian Jiao

The main result of this work is as follows: for arbitrary pairwise disjoint finite intervals $(\alpha_j,\beta_j)\subset[0,\infty)$, $j=1,\dots,m$ and for arbitrary $n\geq 2$ we construct the family of periodic non-compact domains…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-23 Andrii Khrabustovskyi

Twisted two-dimensional structures open new possibilities in band structure engineering. At magic twist angles, flat bands emerge, which give a new drive to the field of strongly correlated physics. In twisted double bilayer graphene dual…

We present a micromagnetic analysis of spin-wave propagation in a magnonic crystal realized as a permalloy spin-wave waveguide with a spatial periodical variation of its saturation magnetization. Frequency band gaps were clearly observed in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-24 Florin Ciubotaru , Andrii V. Chumak , Björn Obry , Alexander A. Serga , Burkard Hillebrands

Using the time periodic ABCD parameters, an expression for the dispersion relation of space-time modulated structures is obtained. The relation is valid for general structures even when the spatial granularity is comparable to the operating…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Sameh Y. Elnaggar , Gregory N. Milford

We report on the first experimental observation of discrete gap solitons in binary arrays of optical waveguides. We observe the soliton generation when the inclination angle of an input beam is slightly above the Bragg angle, and show that…

This work proposes a novel 2-D formation control scheme for acyclic triangulated directed graphs (a class of minimally acyclic persistent graphs) based on bipolar coordinates with (almost) global convergence to the desired shape. Prescribed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 Farhad Mehdifar , Charalampos P. Bechlioulis , Julien M. Hendrickx , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

We theoretically study the effects of electron-electron interaction in twisted bilayer graphene in applied transverse dc electric field. When the twist angle is not very small, the electronic spectrum of the bilayer consists of four Dirac…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-04 A. O. Sboychakov , A. V. Rozhkov , A. L. Rakhmanov , Franco Nori

Topological phase transitions in band models are usually associated to the gap closing between the highest valance band and the lowest conduction band, which can give rise to different types of nodal structures, such as Dirac/Weyl points,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-05 Giandomenico Palumbo

We build a minimal theoretical model to describe the opening of a gap in the dispersion of the collective excitations of a driven-dissipative condensate when the condensate phase is fixed by an additional coherent phase-locking drive. We…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-08 E. Stazzu , G. A. P. Sacchetto , I. Carusotto

By tuning the radiative coupling of localized surface plasmons to diffracted orders, we demonstrate how stop-gaps in plasmonic crystals of nanorods may be opened and tuned. The stop-gap arises from the mutual coupling of surface lattice…