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The energies as a function of the magnetic field ($H$) and the pressure are studied theoretically in the tight-binding model for the two-dimensional organic conductor, $\alpha$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$, in which massless Dirac fermions are…

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We propose two novel two-dimensional (2D) topological materials, (PtN$_4$)$_3$C$_{32}$ and (MnN$_4$)$_3$C$_{32}$, with a special geometry that we named as kagome-in-honeycomb (KIH) lattice structure, to illustrate the coexistence of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-07 Jingping Dong , Miao Gao , Xun-Wang Yan , Fengjie Ma , Zhong-Yi Lu

A new class of multi-scale structures, referred to as `parabolic metamaterials' is introduced and studied in this paper. For an elastic two-dimensional triangular lattice, we identify dynamic regimes, which corresponds to so-called `Dirac…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-21 D. J. Colquitt , N. V. Movchan , A. B. Movchan

For the innovation of spintronic technologies, Dirac materials, in which the low-energy excitation is described as relativistic Dirac fermions, are one of the most promising systems, because of the fascinating magnetotransport associated…

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We present a lattice determination of the vector and scalar form factors of the semileptonic $D \to \pi \ell \nu$ decays, which are relevant for the extraction of the CKM matrix element $\lvert V_{cd} \rvert$ from experimental data. Our…

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A honeycomb lattice system has four types of Dirac electrons corresponding to the spin and valley degrees of freedom. We consider a state that contains only one type of massless electrons and three types of massive ones, which we call the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-08 Motohiko Ezawa

Flat bands underlie a diverse range of quantum phenomena, from strongly correlated phases to superconductivity. We theoretically establish that a two-dimensional electron gas under a linear magnetic-field gradient and a transverse electric…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-26 You-Ting Huang , Chao-Cheng Kaun , Ching-Hao Chang

Dirac fermions in graphene can be subjected to non-abelian gauge fields by implementing certain modulations of the carbon site potentials. Artificial graphene, engineered with a lattice of CO molecules on top of the surface of Cu, offers an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-29 Fernando de Juan

We propose an experimentally feasible setup with ultracold alkaline earth atoms to simulate the dynamics of U(1) lattice gauge theories in 2+1 dimensions with a Chern-Simons term. To this end we consider the ground state properties of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-08-29 Gergely Szirmai , Edina Szirmai , Alejandro Zamora , Maciej Lewenstein

We study the one-band Hubbard model on the honeycomb lattice using a combination of quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations and static as well as dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT). This model is known to show a quantum phase transition…

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We show in a realistic $d_{x^{2}-y^{2}}$ symmetry gap model for a cuprate superconductor that the clean vortex lattice has discontinuous structural transitions (at and near T=0), as a function of the magnetic field $B$ along the c-axis. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Sudhansu S. Mandal , T. V. Ramakrishnan

Motivated by the phenomenology in the condensed-matter flat-band Dirac systems, we here construct a holographic model that imprints the symmetry breaking pattern of a rather simple Dirac fermion model at zero chemical potential.In the bulk…

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Based on the tight-binding formalism, we study the effect of side potential on the spin and valley related electronic property of $2$D honeycomb lattices with intrinsic spin-orbit coupling, such as silicene and germanene. The side potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Wei-Tao Lu , Qing-Feng Sun , Yun-Fang Li , Hong-Yu Tian

The quantum Hall states of graphene have a filled Dirac sea of Landau levels. The short ranged SU(4) symmetry breaking interactions can induce a staggered polarization of the sea of Dirac-Landau levels. We study this effect in the extended…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-07-09 Vinu Lukose , R. Shankar

Van der Waals materials enable the construction of atomically sharp interfaces between compounds with distinct crystal and electronic properties. This is dramatically exploited in moir\'e systems, where a lattice mismatch or twist between…

Electrons are offered a valley degree of freedom in presence of particular lattice structures. Manipulating valley degeneracy is the subject matter of an emerging field of investigation, mostly focused on charge transport in graphene. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-04-18 Zengwei Zhu , Aurelie Collaudin , Benoit Fauque , Woun Kang , Kamran Behnia

We consider the problem of bounding the effective nonreciprocal properties of metamaterials. Recently, significant progress was made by showing that this problem can be reduced to bounding an equivalent reciprocal one and applying a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Christian Kern , Graeme W. Milton

We construct continuum models of 3D and 4D topological insulators by coupling spin-1/2 fermions to an SU(2) background gauge field, which is equivalent to a spatially dependent spin-orbit coupling. Higher dimensional generalizations of flat…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-11-01 Yi Li , Shou-Cheng Zhang , Congjun Wu

Materials with kagome lattice have attracted significant research attention due to their nontrivial features in energy bands. In this work, we theoretically investigate the evolution of electronic band structures of kagome lattice in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-10 Luting Xu , Fan Yang

We study the electronic properties of rippled freestanding graphene membranes under central load from a sharp tip. To that end, we develop a gauge field theory on a honeycomb lattice valid beyond the continuum theory. Based on the proper…

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