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Superconducting gap structure was probed in type-II Dirac semimetal PdTe$_2$ by measuring the London penetration depth using tunnel diode resonator technique. At low temperatures, the data for two samples are well described by weak coupling…

Twisting van der Waals heterostructures to induce correlated many-body states provides a novel tuning mechanism in solid-state physics. In this work, we theoretically investigate the fate of the surface Dirac cone of a three-dimensional…

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The ability to optically engineer the Dirac band and electrically control the Fermi level in two-dimensional (2D) Dirac systems, such as graphene, has significantly advanced quantum technologies. However, similar tunability has remained…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-29 Sobhan Subhra Mishra , Thomas CaiWei Tan , Manoj Gupta , Faxian Xiu , Ranjan Singh

We demonstrate that topological constraints do not only dictate the geometric part of the superfluid stiffness, but can also govern the total superfluid stiffness. By introducing a general adiabatic approach for superfluid responses, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-14 Jun-Ang Wang , Mohamed Assili , Panagiotis Kotetes

We experimentally investigate third-order nonlinear Hall effect for three-dimensional NiTe$_2$ single crystal samples. NiTe$_2$ is the recently discovered type-II Dirac semimetal, so both the inversion and the time-reversal symmetries are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 V. D. Esin , A. V. Timonina , N. N. Kolesnikov , E. V. Deviatov

Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) combined with band structure calculations have shown that the layered transition metal dichalcogenide(TMD) NiTe$_2$ is a type-II Dirac semimetal. However, conflicting conclusions were…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-26 A. R. Shelke , C. -W. Chuang , S. Hamamoto , M. Oura , M. Yoshimura , N. Hiraoka , C. -N. Kuo , C. -S. Lue , A. Fujimori , A. Chainani

The field of topological electronic materials has seen rapid growth in recent years, in particular with the increasing number of weakly interacting systems predicted and observed to host topologically non-trivial bands. Given the broad…

We study the competition of spin- and charge-density waves and their quantum multicritical behavior for the semimetal-insulator transitions of low-dimensional Dirac fermions. Employing the effective Gross-Neveu-Yukawa theory with two order…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-23 Laura Classen , Igor F. Herbut , Lukas Janssen , Michael M. Scherer

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

Transition metal trichalcogenides (TMTs), a family of van der Waals materials, have gained increasing interests from the discovery of magnetism in few-layer forms. Although TMTs with 3d transition metal elements have been studied…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-27 Yusuke Sugita , Takashi Miyake , Yukitoshi Motome

Interlayer coupling in two-dimensional (2D) layered nanomaterials can provide us novel strategies to evoke their superior properties, such as the exotic flat bands and unconventional superconductivity of twisted layers, the formation of…

We demonstrate a tunable Dirac-Weyl semimetal phase in two dimensions, realized by introducing in-plane d-wave altermagnetism into a Dirac system. This phase hosts both a central Dirac point and momentumseparated Weyl points connected by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Lizhou Liu , Qing-Feng Sun , Ying-Tao Zhang

We propose a simple rule for finding Dirac cone electronic states in solids, that is neglecting those lattice atoms inert to the particular electronic bands, and pursuing the two dimensional (2D) graphene-like quasi-atom lattices with s-…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-04 XueJiao Chen , Lei Liu , DeZhen Shen

A pair of type-II Dirac cones in PdTe$_2$ was recently predicted by theories and confirmed in experiments, making PdTe$_2$ the first material that processes both superconductivity and type-II Dirac fermions. In this work, we study the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-04 R. C. Xiao , P. L. Gong , Q. S. Wu , W. J. Lu , M. J. Wei , J. Y. Li , H. Y. Lv , X. Luo , P. Tong , X. B. Zhu , Y. P. Sun

In this work, Dirac fermions have been obtained and engineered in one-dimensional (1D) zigzag phosphorus nanotubes (ZPNTs). We have performed a comprehensive first-principle computational study of the electronic properties of ZPNTs with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Sheng Yu , Hao Zhu , Kwesi Eshun , Chen Shi , Min Zeng , Kai Jiang , Qiliang Li

We show by first-principles calculations that the Dirac nodal-line semimetal phase can co-exist with the ferromagnetic order at room temperature in chromium dioxide, a widely used material in magnetic tape applications, under small tensile…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-07-20 R. Wang , J. Z. Zhao , Y. J. Jin , Y. P. Du , Y. X. Zhao , H. Xu , S. Y. Tong

We consider superconducting properties of a two-dimensional Dirac material such as graphene under strain that produces a flat band spectrum in the normal state. We show that in the superconducting state, such a model results in a highly…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-06-22 V. J. Kauppila , F. Aikebaier , T. T. Heikkilä

We study tunneling across a strain-induced superlattice in graphene. In studying the effect of applied strain on the low-lying Dirac-like spectrum, both a shift of the Dirac points in reciprocal space, and a deformation of the Dirac cones…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-08 F. M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , R. Pucci

We re-examine the band structure of the stripe charge ordered state of $\alpha$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$ under pressure by using an extended Hubbard model within the Hartree mean-field theory. By increasing pressure, we find a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Kobayashi , Y. Suzumura , F. Piéchon , G. Montambaux

This study is devoted to the profound implications of tilted Dirac cones on the quantum transport properties of two-dimensional (2D) Dirac materials. These materials, characterized by their linear conic energy dispersions in the vicinity of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Rasha Al-Marzoog , Ali Rezaei , Zahra Noorinejad , Mohsen Amini , Ebrahim Ghanbari-Adivi , S. A. Jafari