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We formulate a low energy effective Hamiltonian to study superlattices in bilayer graphene (BLG) using a minimal model which supports quadratic band touching points. We show that a one dimensional (1D) periodic modulation of the chemical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-23 Matthew Killi , Si Wu , Arun Paramekanti

Motivated by the recent discovery of Mott insulating phase and unconventional superconductivity due to the flat bands in twisted bilayer graphene, we propose more generic ways of getting two-dimensional (2D) emergent flat band lattices…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 M. Tahir , Olivier Pinaud , Hua Chen

One promising way to enhance superconductivity is to have coexisting wide and incipient narrow bands, where the Fermi level intersecting the wide band lies just above the narrow band, by which finite-energy spin fluctuations act as glue to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-21 Tetsuaki Aida , Karin Matsumoto , Daisuke Ogura , Masayuki Ochi , Kazuhiko Kuroki

We first point out that the Laia-Tong model realizes the Lieb lattice in the holographic setup. It generates a flat band of sharp particle spectrum together with a Dirac band of unparticle spectrum. We then construct a model which opens a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-01 Young-Kwon Han , Jeong-Won Seo , Taewon Yuk , Sang-Jin Sin

In a Dirac semimetal, the conduction and valence bands contact only at discrete (Dirac) points in the Brillouin zone (BZ) and disperse linearly in all directions around these critical points. Including spin, the low energy effective theory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-17 S. M. Young , S. Zaheer , J. C. Y. Teo , C. L. Kane , E. J. Mele , A. M. Rappe

In recent years, flat electronic bands in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) have attracted significant attention due to their intriguing topological properties, extremely slow electron velocities, and enhanced density of states. Extending…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-06-16 Wenjie Sui , Wei Han , Zheng Vitto Han , Zengming Meng , Jing Zhang

We consider the optical and transport properties in a model two-dimensional Hamiltonian which describes the merging of two Dirac points. At low energy, in the presence of an energy gap parameter $\Delta$, there are two distinct Dirac points…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-09 J. P. Carbotte , E. J. Nicol

Graphene-based superlattice (SL) formed by a periodic gap modulation is studied theoretically using a Dirac-type Hamiltonian. Analyzing the dispersion relation we have found that new Dirac points arise in the electronic spectrum under…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 G. M. Maksimova , E. S. Azarova , A. V. Telezhnikov , V. A. Burdov

Flat bands are of significant interest due to their potential for energy confinement and their ability to enable strongly correlated physics. Incorporating topology into flatband systems further enhances flatband mode robustness against…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-01 Yongsheng Liang , Jingyan Zhan , Shiqi Xia , Daohong Song , Zhigang Chen

This review aims at a theoretical discussion of Dirac points in two-dimensional systems. Whereas Dirac points and Dirac fermions are prominent low-energy electrons in graphene (two-dimensional graphite), research on Dirac fermions in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-16 Mark O. Goerbig , Gilles Montambaux

The extraordinary electronic properties of Dirac materials, the two-dimensional partners of Weyl semimetals, arise from the linear crossings in their band structure. When the dispersion around the Dirac points is tilted, the emergence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 M. Milićević , G. Montambaux , T. Ozawa , I. Sagnes , A. Lemaître , L. Le Gratiet , A. Harouri , J. Bloch , A. Amo

Flat bands and Dirac cones in materials are at the source of the exotic electronic and topological properties. The Lieb lattice is expected to host these electronic structures, arising from quantum destructive interference. Nevertheless,…

The Dirac cone underlies many unique electronic properties of graphene and topological insulators, and its band structure--two conical bands touching at a single point--has also been realized for photons in waveguide arrays, atoms in…

We find a systematic reappearance of massive Dirac features at the edges of consecutive minibands formed at magnetic fields B_{p/q}= p\phi_0/(qS) providing rational magnetic flux through a unit cell of the moire superlattice created by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-10 Xi Chen , J. R. Wallbank , A. A. Patel , M. Mucha-Kruczynski , E. McCann , V. I. Fal'ko

We explore a two-dimensional Hubbard model adapted to host altermagnetic states. Utilizing Hartree-Fock (HF) and dynamical mean field theory (DMFT), we uncover that the magnetic solutions of this model feature Dirac points in their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-30 Lorenzo Del Re

We investigate electronic band-structure images in reciprocal space of few layer graphene epitaxially grown on SiC(000-1). In addition to the observation of commensurate rotation angles of the graphene layers, the k-space images recorded…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-06-19 C. Mathieu , E. H. Conrad , F. Wang , J. E. Rault , V. Feyer , C. M. Schneider , O. Renault , N. Barrett

The Dirac electron in the organic conductor $\alpha$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$ under pressure is analyzed using a tight-binding model with nearest-neighbor transfer energies and four molecules per unit cell. By noting that the Dirac point between…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-14 Yoshikazu Suzumura

Several lattices, such as the dice or the Lieb lattice, possess Dirac cones and a flat band crossing the Dirac point, whose effective model is the pseudospin-1 Dirac-Weyl equation. We investigate the fate of the flat band in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-13 Máté Vigh , László Oroszlány , Szabolcs Vajna , Pablo San-Jose , Gyula Dávid , József Cserti , Balázs Dóra

Topological non-trivial band structures are the core problem in the field of topological materials. In this paper, we investigate the topological band structure in a system with controllable Dirac points from the perspective of wave packet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Dan-Dan Liang , Xin Shen , Zhi Li

Motivated by the recent development of the quantum twisting microscope, we formulate a theory of elastic momentum-resolved tunneling across a planar tunnel junction between a monolayer graphene layer situated on a tip and a twisting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-14 Nemin Wei , Felix von Oppen , Leonid I. Glazman