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We investigate a generalized two-dimensional Weyl Hamiltonian, which may describe the low-energy properties of mechanically deformed graphene and of the organic compound alpha-(BEDT-TTF)_2I_3 under pressure. The associated dispersion has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-16 M. O. Goerbig , J. -N. Fuchs , G. Montambaux , F. Piechon

We study the modular Hamiltonians of an interval for the massless Dirac fermion on the half-line. The most general boundary conditions ensuring the global energy conservation lead to consider two phases, where either the vector or the axial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-15 Mihail Mintchev , Erik Tonni

We demonstrate a generic mechanism to realize topological flat minibands by confining massive Dirac fermions in a periodic moir\'e potential, which can be achieved in a heterobilayer of transition metal dichalcogenides. We show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-28 Ying Su , Heqiu Li , Chuanwei Zhang , Kai Sun , Shi-Zeng Lin

We study the bulk-boundary correspondences for zigzag ribbons (ZRs) of massless Dirac fermion in two-dimensional $\alpha$-${T}_3$ lattice. By tuning the hopping parameter $\alpha\in[0,1]$, the $\alpha$-${T}_3$ lattice interpolates between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-27 F. R. Pratama , Takeshi Nakanishi

We study two-dimensional (2D) Dirac fermions in the presence of a periodic mass term alternating between positive and negative values along one direction. This scenario could be realized for a graphene monolayer or for the surface states of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-29 A. De Martino , L. Dell'Anna , L. Handt , A. Miserocchi , R. Egger

By solving two-component spinor equation for massless Dirac Fermions, we show that graphene under a periodic external magnetic field exhibits a unique energy spectrum: At low energies, Dirac Fermions are localized inside the magnetic region…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-26 Shuanglong Liu , Argo Nurbawono , Na Guo , Chun Zhang

Topological aspects of graphene are reviewed focusing on the massless Dirac fermions with/without magnetic field. Doubled Dirac cones of graphene are topologically protected by the chiral symmetry. The quantum Hall effect of the graphene is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-30 Yasuhiro Hatsugai

The low energy excitations of graphene can be described by a massless Dirac equation in two spacial dimensions. Curved graphene is proposed to be described by coupling the Dirac equation to the corresponding curved space. This covariant…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Maria A. H. Vozmediano , Fernando de Juan , Alberto Cortijo

Electronic properties of materials are commonly described by quasiparticles that behave as non-relativistic electrons with a finite mass and obey the Schroedinger equation. Here we report a condensed matter system where electron transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-05 K. S. Novoselov , A. K. Geim , S. V. Morozov , D. Jiang , M. I. Katsnelson , I. V. Grigorieva , S. V. Dubonos , A. A. Firsov

Twisted double- and mono-bilayer graphene are graphene-based moir\'e materials hosting strongly correlated fermions in a gate-tunable conduction band with a topologically non-trivial character. Using unbiased exact diagonalization…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-22 Patrick H. Wilhelm , Thomas C. Lang , Mathias S. Scheurer , Andreas M. Läuchli

We study the confinement of Dirac fermions in graphene and in carbon nanotubes by an external magnetic field, mechanical deformations or inhomogeneities in the substrate. By applying variational principles to the square of the Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 Vit Jakubsky , David Krejcirik

Brownian dynamics of Dirac fermions in twisted bilayer graphene is investigated within the framework of semiclassical relativistic Langevin equations. We find that under the influence of orthogonal, commensurate ac drives in the periodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-31 Abdullah Yar

In honeycomb Dirac systems with broken inversion symmetry, orbital magnetic moments coupled to the valley degree of freedom arise due to the topology of the band structure, leading to valley-selective optical dichroism. On the other hand,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-17 Marko M. Grujić , Milan Ž. Tadić , François M. Peeters

The open string dual to a 1/6 BPS Wilson line in the ${\cal N} = 6$ super Chern-Simons-matter theory is coupled to a flat Kalb-Ramond field. We show that the resulting boundary term imposes mixed boundary conditions on the fields that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-22 Diego H. Correa , Maximiliano G. Ferro , Victor I. Giraldo-Rivera

Surfaces of topological insulators host a new class of states with Dirac dispersion and helical spin texture. Potential quantum computing and spintronic applications using these states require manipulation of their electronic properties at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Haim Beidenkopf , Pedram Roushan , Jungpil Seo , Lindsay Gorman , Ilya Drozdov , Yew San Hor , R. J. Cava , Ali Yazdani

A system of generalized kinetic equations for the distribution functions of two-dimensional Dirac fermions scattered by impurities is derived in the Born approximation with respect to short-range impurity potential. It is proven that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-14 M. Auslender , M. I. Katsnelson

Nearly aligned graphene on hexagonal boron nitride (G/BN) can be accurately modeled by a Dirac Hamiltonian perturbed by smoothly varying moir\'e pattern pseudospin fields. Here, we present the moir\'e-band model of G/BN for arbitrary small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-06 Jeil Jung , Evan Laksono , Ashley M. DaSilva , Allan H. MacDonald , Marcin Mucha-Kruczyński , Shaffique Adam

We consider the possibility of using reweighting techniques in order to correct for the breaking of unitarity when twisted boundary conditions are imposed on valence fermions in simulations of lattice gauge theories. We start by studying…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-09-13 Andrea Bussone , Michele Della Morte , Martin Hansen , Claudio Pica

The minimal Hamiltonian for a family of relativistic rotators is constructed by a direct application of the Dirac procedure for constrained systems. The Hamiltonian equations can be easily solved. It is found that the resulting motion is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-01-17 Łukasz Bratek

In this paper, we study the massive Dirac equation with the presence of the Morse potential in polar coordinate. The Dirac Hamiltonian is written as two second-order differential equations in terms of two spinor wavefunctions. Since the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-27 Z. Zali , Alireza Amani , J. Sadeghi , B. Pourhassan