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Topological phases have been explored in various fields in physics such as spintronics, photonics, liquid helium, correlated electron system and cold-atomic system. This leads to the recent foundation of emerging materials such as…

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Three-dimensional topological semimetals can support band crossings along one-dimensional curves in the momentum space (nodal lines or Dirac lines) protected by structural symmetries and topology. We consider rhombohedrally (ABC) stacked…

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Classical electromagnetism is linear. However, fields can polarize the vacuum Dirac sea, causing quantum nonlinear electromagnetic phenomena, e.g., scattering and splitting of photons, that occur only in very strong fields found in neutron…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-02-15 Aydin C. Keser , Yuli Lyanda-Geller , Oleg P. Sushkov

Magnetic topological materials represent a class of compounds whose properties are strongly influenced by the topology of the electronic wavefunctions coupled with the magnetic spin configuration. Such materials can support chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-08 B. Andrei Bernevig , Claudia Felser , Haim Beidenkopf

We consider a non-linear system modelling the dynamics of a linearly elastic body immersed in an incompressible viscous fluid, without damping on the elastic part. We prove local existence of strong solutions and global existence and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Karoline Disser , Michelle Luckas

We elucidate that the diffusive systems, which are widely found in nature, can be a new platform of the bulk-edge correspondence, a representative topological phenomenon. Using a discretized diffusion equation, we demonstrate the emergence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 Tsuneya Yoshida , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

The control of wave propagation, particularly the quest for unidirectional transport, plays an important role in photonics and metamaterial science. While nonreciprocity is known to enable unidirectional amplification and stabilize complex…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-12-10 Wen-Rong Sun , Jesús Cuevas Maraver

Photonic flat bands offer significant potential for strong light-matter interactions, nonlinear optics, and sensing thanks to their localization of light and high density of states. However, realizing these flat bands typically requires…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-08 Dun Wang , Shupeng Xu , Jia-chen Shi , Xuyang Li , Ritesh Agarwal

Extremal elastic materials here refer to a specific class of elastic materials whose elastic matrices exhibit one or more zero eigenvalues, resulting in soft deformation modes that, in principle, cost no energy. They can be approximated…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-09-09 Yu Wei , Yi Chen , Wen Cheng , Xiaoning Liu , Gengkai Hu

Topological insulators represent a new state of matter where the topological nature of the bulk bands dictates the existence of a surface state with unique properties. These materials are predicted to host exotic states such as Majorana…

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Two distinct models are developed to investigate the transverse magnetic stationary solutions propagating in one-dimensional anisotropic nonlinear plasmonic structures made from a nonlinear metamaterial core of Kerr-type embedded between…

Optics · Physics 2018-01-15 Mahmoud M. R. Elsawy , Gilles Renversez

Conventional magnonic devices use three classes of magnetostatic waves that require detailed manipulation of magnetization structure that makes the design and the device/circuitry scalability difficult tasks. Here, we demonstrate that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-04 X. S. Wang , H. W. Zhang , X. R. Wang

Two dimensional van der Waals ferromagnets with honeycomb structures are expected to host the bosonic version of Dirac particles in their magnon excitation spectra. Using inelastic neutron scattering, we study spin wave excitations in…

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In this paper, we explore the topological behavior of a two-dimensional honeycomb photonic crystal (PC) based on the presence of double Dirac-cone connected the orbitals p and d, due to the C6 point group symmetry of the hexagonal PCs.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-06-15 Jamileh Hajivandi , Hasan Pakarzadeh , Hamza Kurt

We develop a non-perturbative theory to study large-scale quantum dynamics of Dirac particles in disordered scalar potentials (the so-called "topological metal"). For general disorder strength and carrier doping, we find that at large…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-16 Chushun Tian

The rich structure of solid state physics provides us with Dirac materials the effective theory of which enjoys the Lorentz symmetry. In non-symmorphic lattices, the Lorentz symmetry will be deformed in a way that the null energy-momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-08 Zahra Jalali-Mola , S. A. Jafari

We propose a first principles effective medium formalism to study the propagation of electron waves in semiconductor heterostructures with a zero-band gap. Our theory confirms that near the K-point the dynamics of a two-dimensional electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-20 Sylvain Lannebère , Mário G. Silveirinha

Two-dimensional (2D) semi-Dirac materials feature a unique anisotropic band structure characterized by quadratic dispersion along one spatial direction and linear dispersion along the other, effectively hybridizing ordinary and Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Xin Chen , Jian-Tong Hou , Long Liang , Jie Lu , Hong Guo , Chang-Xu Yan , Hao-Ran Chang

In this work, we present a computational analysis of the planar wave propagation behavior of a one-dimensional periodic multi-stable cellular material. Wave propagation in these materials is interesting because they combine the ability of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-11-19 Camilo Valencia , David Restrepo , Nilesh D. mankame , Pablo D. Zavattieri , Juan Gomez