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The topological properties of materials are, until now, associated with the features of their crystalline structure, although translational symmetry is not an explicit requirement of the topological phases. Recent studies of hopping models…

We show that above the critical temperature of superconductor - metal phase transitions, both the longitudinal and Hall conductivity exhibit strong temperature dependent mesoscopic fluctuations, with amplitudes much larger than the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Zhou , C. Biagini

We show, in a completely analytical way, that a tight binding ladder network composed of atomic sites with on-site potentials distributed according to the quasiperiodic Aubry model can exhibit a metal-insulator transition at multiple values…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-19 Shreekantha Sil , Santanu K. Maiti , Arunava Chakrabarti

Quantum electronic matter has long been understood in terms of two limiting behaviors of electrons: one of delocalized metallic states, and the other of localized magnetic states. Understanding the strange metallic behavior which develops…

We present an analytically solvable theory of BCS-type superconductivity in good metals which are confined along one of the three spatial directions, such as thin films. Closed-form expressions for the dependence of the superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-19 Riccardo Travaglino , Alessio Zaccone

I show that the quantum critical points observed in heavy fermions (the `Kondo breakdown') and in doped cuprates can be understood in terms of concealed Mott criticality. In this picture, one species of electrons undergoes a Mott…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-03 Louk Rademaker

The superconducting, transport, and structural properties of optimally electron-doped BaFe$_{1.9}$Ni$_{0.1}$As$_{2}$ are investigated by combining the electrical resistance and synchrotron X-ray diffraction measurements at high pressures.…

Topologically non-trivial Hamiltonians with periodic boundary conditions are characterized by strictly quantized invariants. Open questions and fundamental challenges concern their existence, and the possibility of measuring them in systems…

We have performed a detailed high-resolution electron spectroscopic investigation of NiS$_2$ and related Se-substituted compounds NiS$_{2-x}$Se$_x$, which are known to be gapped insulators in the bulk at all temperatures. A large spectral…

Multi-Weyl semimetals feature band crossings with the dispersion that is, in general, linear in only one direction, and as a consequence their band structure is characterized by the monopole charge $n$ which can be greater than one. We show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Rodrigo Soto-Garrido , Enrique Muñoz , Vladimir Juričić

Three-dimensional topological semimetals host a range of interesting quantum phenomena related to band crossing that give rise to Dirac or Weyl fermions, and can be potentially engineered into novel quantum devices. Harvesting the full…

Heavy electron metals on the verge of a quantum phase transition to magnetism show a number of unusual non-fermi liquid properties which are poorly understood. This article discusses in a general way various theoretical aspects of this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Senthil

For three-dimensional non-interacting multi-band metals, we show that important information about the shape and the quantum geometry of Fermi surfaces is encoded in the subleading logarithmic term of bipartite charge fluctuations. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Pok Man Tam , Yarden Sheffer , Xiao-Chuan Wu , F. D. M. Haldane , Shinsei Ryu

We find a series of topological phase transitions in a half-metal/superconductor heterostructure, by tuning the direction of the magnetization of the half-metal film. These include transitions between a topological superconducting phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-10-18 Lei Hao , C. S. Ting

In modern condensed matter theory, phases of electronic matter--such as metals and insulators-are fundamentally distinguished by the presence or absence of charge-carrying quasiparticles or excitations near the Fermi surface at low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Xian-Peng Zhang , Yan-Qing Feng , Ji-Feng Shao , Haiwen Liu , Yugui Yao

Metals have high electronic conductivities, but very low Seebeck coefficients, which traditionally make them unsuitable for thermoelectric materials. Recent studies, however, showed that metals can deliver ultra-high thermoelectric power…

Geometric evolution represents a fundamental aspect of many physical phenomena. In this paper we consider the geometric evolution of structures that undergo topological changes. Topological changes occur when the shape of an object evolves…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-06-11 James E. McClure , Steffen Berg , Ryan T. Armstrong

Strange or bad metallic transport, defined by its incompatibility with conventional quasiparticle pictures, is a theme common to strongly correlated materials and ubiquitous in many high temperature superconductors. The Hubbard model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-26 Edwin W. Huang , Ryan Sheppard , Brian Moritz , Thomas P. Devereaux

Numerous unconventional superconductors such as cuprates, heavy-fermions, and twisted-bilayer graphene exhibit incoherent metallic transport above the superconducting critical temperature. This phenomenon cannot be described with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-06 Aaron Kleger , Nikolay Gnezdilov , Rufus Boyack

In this paper we present a theoretical analysis of the effect of local geometrical structure of the Fermi surface on the surface impedance of a metal at the anomalous skin effect. We show that when the Fermi surface includes nearly…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Natalya A. Zimbovskaya