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We study a non-linear convective-diffusive equation, local in space and time, which has its background in the dynamics of the thickness of a wetting film. The presence of a non-linear diffusion predicts the existence of fronts as well as…

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Introduction of controllable deformations into periodic materials that lead to disclinations in their structure opens novel routes for construction of higher-order topological insulators hosting topological states at disclinations.…

Complex elastic media such as biological membranes, in particular, blood vessels, may be described as fiber-reinforced solids in the framework of nonlinear hyperelasticity. Finite axially symmetric anti-plane shear displacements in such…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-09-13 Alexei Cheviakov , Caylin Lee , Rehana Naz

Undistorted monolayer graphene has energy bands which cross at protected Dirac points. It elastically deforms and much research has assumed the Dirac description persists, now in a curved space and coupled to a gauge field related to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-14 Matthew M. Roberts , Toby Wiseman

The meander instability of a vicinal surface growing under step flow conditions is studied within a solid-on-solid model. In the absence of edge diffusion the selected meander wavelength agrees quantitatively with the continuum linear…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jouni Kallunki , Joachim Krug , Miroslav Kotrla

Geometrical model for material Dirac wave field and for Maxwell electromagnetic field is suggested where above fields are considered as propagating regions of the space itself with distorted euclidean geometry. It is shown that equations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-11 Oleg A. Olkhov

Photonic structures and time-crystals, wherein time is incorporated as an additional degree of freedom for light manipulation, have necessitated the development of analytical and semi-analytical tools. However, such tools are currently…

It has been found that in the media where the dielectric permittivity $\epsilon$ or the magnetic permeability $\mu$ is near zero and in transition metamaterials where $\epsilon$ or $\mu$ changes from positive to negative values, there occur…

Optics · Physics 2016-04-20 Seulong Kim , Kihong Kim

Recent theoretical studies have demonstrated the possibility to excite and sustain noncollinear magnetization states in ferromagnetic nanowires. The resulting state is referred to as a spin-density wave (SDW). SDWs can be interpreted as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Patrick Sprenger , Mark A. Hoefer , Ezio Iacocca

We show that a class of weak three-dimensional topological insulators feature one-dimensional Dirac electrons on their surfaces. Their hallmark is a line-like energy dispersion along certain directions of the surface Brillouin zone. These…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-17 Alexander Lau , Carmine Ortix , Jeroen van den Brink

Topological insulators are most frequently constructed using lattices with specific degeneracies in their linear spectra, such as Dirac points. For a broad class of lattices, such as honeycomb ones, these points and associated Dirac cones…

Optics · Physics 2024-09-09 Hua Zhong , Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Yongdong Li , Ming Li , Yiqi Zhang

It is predicted that electrons on the surface of a topological insulator can acquire a mass (massive Dirac fermion) by opening up a gap at the Dirac point when time-reversal symmetry is broken via the out-of-plane magnetization. We report…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-17 Su-Yang Xu , L. A. Wray , N. Alidoust , Y. Xia , M. Neupane , Chang Liu , H. -W. Ji , S. Jia , R. J. Cava , M. Z. Hasan

One of the problems of physics arguably greater in stature than even mathematical Hilberts problems is the mysterious nature of electromagnetic momentum in materials. In this paper we show that the difference between the Minkowski and…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-02 Maxim Durach

Dirac magnons, the bosonic counterparts of Dirac fermions in graphene, provide a unique platform to explore symmetry-protected band crossings and quantum geometry in magnetic insulators, while promising high-velocity, low-dissipation spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-07 Rintaro Eto , Ignacio Salgado-Linares , Masahito Mochizuki , Johannes Knolle , Alexander Mook

This paper investigates the propagation characteristics of circular waveguides whose interior surface is coated with a thin metamaterial liner possessing dispersive, negative, and near-zero permittivity. A field analysis of this system…

Optics · Physics 2014-05-13 Justin G. Pollock , Ashwin K. Iyer

Dirac materials are of great interest as condensed matter realizations of the Dirac and Weyl equations. In particular, they serve as a starting point for the study of topological phases. This physics has been extensively studied in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 P. Sathish Kumar , Igor F. Herbut , R. Ganesh

In this paper we study the propagation of weakly nonlinear surface waves on a plasma-vacuum interface. In the plasma region we consider the equations of incompressible magnetohydrodynamics, while in vacuum the magnetic and electric fields…

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The discovery of monolayer graphene has initiated two fertile fields in modern condensed matter physics, Dirac semimetals and atomically-thin layered materials. When these trends meet again in transition metal compounds, which possess spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-21 Yusuke Sugita , Takashi Miyake , Yukitoshi Motome

Electromagnetic waves propagating, at finite speeds, in conventional wave-guiding structures are reflected by discontinuities and decay in lossy regions. In this Letter, we drastically modify this typical guided-wave behavior by combining…

Optics · Physics 2018-09-12 S. Ali Hassani Gangaraj , Francesco Monticone