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We analyze the energy spectrum of graphene in the presence of spin-orbit coupling and a unidirectionally periodic Zeeman field, focusing on the stability and location of Dirac points it may support. It is found that the Dirac points at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Luis Brey , A. R. Carvalho , H. A. Fertig

We investigate an effective model of proximity modified graphene (or symmetrylike materials) with broken time-reversal symmetry. We predict the appearance of quantum anomalous Hall phases by computing bulk band gap and Chern numbers for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-07 Petra Högl , Tobias Frank , Klaus Zollner , Denis Kochan , Martin Gmitra , Jaroslav Fabian

We show that a superlattice potential can be employed to engineer topology in massive Dirac fermions in systems such as bilayer graphene, moir\'e graphene-boron nitride, and transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers and bilayers. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Nishchay Suri , Chong Wang , Benjamin M. Hunt , Di Xiao

Topological materials rely on engineering global properties of their bulk energy bands called topological invariants. These invariants, usually defined over the entire Brillouin zone, are related to the existence of protected edge states.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 P. St-Jean , A. Dauphin , P. Massignan , B. Real , O. Jamadi , M. Milićević , A. Lemaître , A. Harouri , L. Le Gratiet , I. Sagnes , S. Ravets , J. Bloch , A. Amo

Two-dimensional Dirac physics has aroused great interests in condensed matter physics ever since the discovery of graphene and topological insulators due to its importance in both fundamental physics and device applications. The ability to…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-21 Xiao-Yu Dong , Jian-Feng Wang , Rui-Xing Zhang , Wen-Hui Duan , Bang-Fen Zhu , Jorge Sofo , Chao-Xing Liu

Mechanical deformations of graphene induce a term in the Dirac Hamiltonian which is reminiscent of an electromagnetic vector potential. Strain gradients along particular lattice directions induce local pseudomagnetic fields and substantial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Eran Sela , Yakov Bloch , Felix von Oppen , Moshe Ben Shalom

In this letter, we analyze the topological response of a fermionic model defined on the Lieb lattice in presence of an electromagnetic field. The tight-binding model is built in terms of three species of spinless fermions and supports a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-23 N. Menezes , C. Morais Smith , Giandomenico Palumbo

We present a LC circuit model that supports tilted {\it Dirac cone} in its spectrum. The tilt of the Dirac cone is specified by the parameters of the model consisting of mutual inductance between the neighboring sites and a capacitance C0…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-07 A. Motavassal , S. A. Jafari

Recently, the crystal symmetry-protected topological semimetals have aroused extensive interests, especially for the nonsymmorphic symmetry-protected one. We list the possible nonmagnetic topological semimetals and develop their k.p…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-05 Xiaotong Fan , Dashuai Ma , Botao Fu , Cheng-Cheng Liu , Yugui Yao

Graphene is famous for being a host of 2D Dirac fermions. However, spin-orbit coupling introduces a small gap, so that graphene is formally a quantum spin hall insulator. Here we present symmetry-protected 2D Dirac semimetals, which feature…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-23 Steve M. Young , Charles L. Kane

Both topological crystalline insulators surfaces and graphene host multi-valley massless Dirac fermions which are not pinned to a high-symmetry point of the Brillouin zone. Strain couples to the low-energy electrons as a time-reversal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-18 Jörn W. F. Venderbos , Liang Fu

It has been recently established that optoelectronic and non-linear transport experiments can give direct access to the dipole moment of the Berry curvature in non-magnetic and non-centrosymmetric materials. Thus far, non-vanishing Berry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-22 Raffaele Battilomo , Niccolo' Scopigno , Carmine Ortix

Motivated by recent experimental and theoretical research on a monolayer of Boron atoms, Borophene, current-voltage characteristics of three different Borophene sheets, 2Pmmn, 8Pmmn and 8Pmmm, are calculated using density functional theory…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Sahar Izadi Vishkayi , Meysam Bagheri Tagani

We show that if the solutions to the (2+1)-dimensional massless Dirac equation for a given 1D potential are known, then they can be used to obtain the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions for the same potential, orientated at an arbitrary angle,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-07 R. A. Ng , A. Wild , M. E. Portnoi , R. R. Hartmann

Borophene has triggered a surge of interest due to its outstanding properties including mechanical flexibility, polymorphism, and opto-electrical anisotropy. Very recently, a novel semi-hydrogenated borophene, called $\alpha'$-4H, was…

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…

Pseudospin is an angular momentum degree of freedom introduced in analogy to the real electron spin in the effective massless Dirac-like equation used to describe wave evolution at conical intersections such as the Dirac cones of graphene.…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-03 Philip Menz , Haissam Hanafi , Daniel Leykam , Jörg Imbrock , Cornelia Denz

Very recently, a new two-dimensional graphene-like topological insulator, Bi14Rh3I9, has been synthesized. The Bi-Rh sheets with a strong spin-orbit interaction are graphene analogues with a honeycomb net composed of RhBi8 cubes. Here we…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-07 Zhao-Dong Chu , Wen-Yu He , Lin He

Representing massless Dirac fermions on a spatial lattice poses a potential challenge known as the Fermion Doubling problem. Addition of a quadratic term to the Dirac Hamiltonian circumvents this problem. We show that the modified…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-15 K. M. Masum Habib , Redwan N. Sajjad , Avik W. Ghosh