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We present a lattice field theory of spins coupled to Dirac fermions, as a model for the doped copper oxide compounds. Both the fermionic and spin degrees of freedom are treated dynamically. The influence of the charge carriers on the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 J. L. Alonso , Ph. Boucaud , V. Martin-Mayor , A. J. van der Sijs

We study the effects of strong electron-electron interactions on the surface of cubic topological Kondo insulators (such as samarium hexaboride, SmB$_6$). Cubic topological Kondo insulators generally support three copies of massless Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-25 Bitan Roy , Johannes Hofmann , Valentin Stanev , Jay D. Sau , Victor Galitski

We study correlations and magnetic textures of localized spins, doped in three-dimensional Dirac semimetals. An effective field theory for magnetic moments is constructed by integrating out the fermionic degrees of freedom. The spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-06 Yasufumi Araki , Kentaro Nomura

We study electron-electron Coulomb interactions in electronic systems whose Fermi surfaces possess a finite electric dipole density. Although there is no net dipole moment, we show that electric monopole-dipole interactions can become…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-23 Grgur Palle , Jörg Schmalian

In a recent experiment on the interlayer magnetoresistance in the quasi-two-dimensional organic salt, $\alpha$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$, it has been observed that at low temperatures, interlayer tunneling attains phase coherence, leading to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-21 Yuki Nakamura , Takao Morinari

The electron-nuclear hyperfine interaction shows up in a variety of phenomena including e.g. NMR studies of correlated states and spin decoherence effects in quantum dots. Here we focus on the hyperfine coupling and the NMR spin relaxation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Zoltán Okvátovity , Ferenc Simon , Balázs Dóra

We discuss the relation of the Kerr-Newman spinning particle to the Dirac electron and show that the Dirac equation may naturally be incorporated into Kerr-Schild formalism as a master equation controlling the Kerr-Newman geometry. As a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Alexander Burinskii

Discrete fermionic and bosonic models for hyperbolic lattices have attracted significant attention across a range of fields since the experimental realization of hyperbolic lattices in metamaterial platforms, sparking the development of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Ana Djordjević , Marija Dimitrijević Ćirić , Vladimir Juričić

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

We present a new type of three-dimensional essential Dirac semimetal with magnetic ordering. The Dirac points are protected by the magnetic space groups and cannot be gapped without lowering such symmetries, where the combined antiunitary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-05 Jing Wang

We study the transport of the fermions with a small mass in the presence of Coulomb impurities, which could be realized in slightly distorted Dirac semimetals. Using the semiclassical Boltzmann equation, we derive the relaxation times for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Aya Kagimura , Tetsuya Onogi

We analyze a model of itinerant electrons interacting through a quadrupole density-density repulsion in three dimensions. At the mean field level, the interaction drives a continuous Pomeranchuk instability towards $d$-wave, spin-triplet…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-08 G. Hannappel , C. J. Pedder , F. Krüger , A. G. Green

The energies as a function of the magnetic field ($H$) and the pressure are studied theoretically in the tight-binding model for the two-dimensional organic conductor, $\alpha$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$, in which massless Dirac fermions are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-24 Keita Kishigi , Yasumasa Hasegawa

Zitterbewegung is a striking consequence of relativistic quantum mechanics which predicts that free Dirac electrons exhibit a rapid trembling motion even in the absence of external forces. The trembling motion of an electron results from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-20 I. Stepanov , M. Ersfeld , A. V. Poshakinskiy , M. Lepsa , E. L. Ivchenko , S. A. Tarasenko , B. Beschoten

Interaction driven symmetry breaking in a metallic (doped) Dirac system can manifest in the spontaneous gap generation at the nodal point buried below the Fermi level. Across this transition linear conductivity remains finite making its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-25 Habib Rostami , Vladimir Juričić

We develop a theory for electron-electron interaction-induced many-body effects in three dimensional (3D) Weyl or Dirac semimetals, including interaction corrections to the polarizability, electron self-energy, and vertex function, up to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-07 Robert E. Throckmorton , Johannes Hofmann , Edwin Barnes , S. Das Sarma

We present an analytic theory unraveling the microscopic mechanism of instabilities within interacting $D$-dimensional Fermi liquid. Our model consists of a $D$-dimensional electron gas subject to an instantaneous electron-electron…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-03 Dmitry Miserev , Herbert Schoeller , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

Electron-electron interactions in a Weyl semimetal are rigorously investigated in a lattice model by non perturbative methods. The absence of quantum phase transitions is proved for interactions not too large and short ranged. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-17 Vieri Mastropietro

We investigate the spin-ordered states in multilayer massless Dirac fermion systems under magnetic fields, in which the intralayer interaction is ferromagnetic owing to the exchange interaction, while the interlayer interaction is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-06-30 Kenji Kubo , Takao Morinari

Discovering Dirac fermions with novel properties has become an important front in condensed matter and materials sciences. Here, we report the observation of unusual Dirac fermion states in a strongly-correlated electron setting, which are…