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We reconsider the problem of surface states spectrum in type One Dirac metals. We find that the surface states, despite being gapped, always form branches terminating at Dirac points. Furthermore, we consider evolution of the surface states…

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We show that a semi-Dirac (SD) system with an inversion symmetry breaking mass exhibits a topological phase transition when irradiated with off-resonant light. Using Floquet theory, we derive the band structure, Chern numbers, phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Vassilios Vargiamidis , P. Vasilopoulos , Neophytos Neophytou

We have recently identified a protected topological semimetal in graphene which presents a zero-energy edge mode robust to disorder and interactions. Here, we address the characteristics of this semimetal and show that the $\mathbb{Z}$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Karyn Le Hur , Sariah Al Saati

Electric conductivities may reveal the topological and magnetic properties of band structures in solids, especially for two-dimensional unpaired Dirac fermions. In this work, we evaluate the longitudinal and Hall conductivity for unpaired…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Bo Fu , Kai-Zhi Bai , Shi-Hao Bi , Shun-Qing Shen

The search for symmetry-protected 2D Dirac semimetals analogous to graphene is important both for fundamental and practical interest. The 2D Dirac cones are protected by crystalline symmetries and magnetic ordering may destroy their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-23 Jing Wang

Topological semimetals exhibit protected band crossings in momentum space, accompanied by corresponding surface states. Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians introduce geometry-sensitive features that dissolve this bulk-boundary correspondence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Megan Schoenzeit , Chang Shu , Kai Zhang , Kai Sun

Controlling charge-spin current conversion by electric fields is crucial in spintronic devices, which can be realized in diatom ferroelectric semiconductor GeTe where it is established that ferroelectricity can change the spin texture. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-09 Wenxu Zhang , Zhao Teng , Huizhong Zeng , Jakub Zelezny , Hongbin Zhang , Wanli Zhang

Nodal-line semimetals with magnetic orders have been theoretically predicted and experimentally observed in only few compounds. We theoretically explore the electronic structure in bulk and boundary of such a magnetic nodal-line state by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Yasufumi Araki , Jin Watanabe , Kentaro Nomura

The spin Hall effect of a Dirac Hamiltonian system is studied using semiclassical analyses and the Kubo formula. In this system, the spin Hall conductivity is dependent on the definition of spin current. All components of the spin Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-02 Zhendong Chi , Guanxiong Qu , Yong-Chang Lau , Masashi Kawaguchi , Junji Fujimoto , Koki Takanashi , Masao Ogata , Masamitsu Hayashi

Fully gapped two-dimensional superconductors coupled to dynamical electromagnetism are known to exhibit topological order. In this work, we develop a unified low-energy description for spin-singlet paired states by deriving topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-01-17 Sergej Moroz , Abhinav Prem , Victor Gurarie , Leo Radzihovsky

The newly discovered topological Dirac semimetals host the possibilities of various topological phase transitions through the control of spin-orbit coupling as well as symmetries and dimensionalities. Here, we report a magnetotransport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-07 S. Nishihaya , M. Uchida , Y. Nakazawa , K. Akiba , M. Kriener , Y. Kozuka , A. Miyake , Y. Taguchi , M. Tokunaga , M. Kawasaki

Dirac semimetals (DSMs), characterized by linear dispersion relations in their electronic band structure, have gained prominence due to their unique topological features and potential applications in electronic devices. Through systematic…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-31 Shivendra Kumar Gupta , Nikhilesh Singh , Saurabh Kumar Sen , Poorva Singh

We theoretically investigate the optical activity of three dimensional Dirac semimetals (DSMs) using circular dichroism (CD). We show that DSMs in the presence of a magnetic field in any one of the mirror-symmetric planes of the materials…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-16 Abhirup Roy Karmakar , S. Nandy , G. P. Das , Kush Saha

We study the vanishing of the topological properties of a quantum spin Hall insulator induced by a deformation of the band structure that interpolates between the Dirac and the semi-Dirac limits of a tight-binding model on a honeycomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Sayan Mondal , Saurabh Basu

Two-dimensional (2D) materials with large spin Hall effect (SHE) have attracted significant attention due to their potential applications in next-generation spintronic devices. In this work, we perform high-throughput (HTP) calculations to…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-17 Fu Li , Xiaoxiong Liu , Vikrant Chaudhary , Ruiwen Xie , Chen Shen , Hao Wang , Hongbin Zhang

Spin-1 condensed matter systems characterized by the combination of a Dirac-like dispersion and flat bands are ideal for realizing high-temperature electronics and spintronic technologies in the absence of external magnetic field. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-19 Muhammad Nadeem , Xiaolin Wang

The spin Hall conductivity (SHC) and anomalous Hall conductivity (AHC) in more than 120 full Heusler compounds are calculated using density functional theory in a high-throughtput way. The electronic structures are mapped to the Wannier…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-25 Yimin Ji , Wenxu Zhang , Hongbin Zhang , Wanli Zhang

Dirac semimetal (DSM) hosts four-fold degenerate isolated band-crossing points with linear dispersion, around which the quasiparticles resemble the relativistic Dirac Fermions. It can be described by a 4 * 4 massless Dirac Hamiltonian which…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-06 Cong Chen , Zefeng Su , Xiaoming Zhang , Ziyu Chen , Xian-Lei Sheng

Vortex lines in superconducting Dirac semimetals realize crystal-symmetry-protected gapless vortex-line phases in which gapless excitations propagate inside a vortex line, in the presence of appropriate crystal symmetry, spin-orbit…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-07-12 Shingo Kobayashi , Shuntaro Sumita , Motoaki Hirayama , Akira Furusaki

We show that an electric field applied to a strained topological Dirac semimetal, such as Na3Bi and Cd3As2, induces a spin Hall current that is quadratic in the electric field. By regarding the strain as an effective "axial magnetic field"…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-13 Yasufumi Araki