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We use a semiclassical approximation to investigate density variations and dipole oscillations of an interacting three-component normal Fermi gas in a harmonic trap. We consider both attractive and repulsive interactions between different…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-13 Theja N. De Silva

The electrodynamics of Weyl semimetals (WSMs) is an extension of Maxwell's theory where in addition to field strength tensor $F_{\mu\nu}$, an axion field enters the theory which is parameterized by a four-vector $b^\mu=(b_0,\bf b)$. In the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-20 Zahra Jalali-Mola , S. A. Jafari

Three-dimensional electron gases in strong magnetic fields host partially flat bands that disperse along the field direction yet exhibit Landau-level quantization in the transverse dimensions. Early work established that for spin-polarized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-13 Nandagopal Manoj , Valerio Peri , Jason Alicea

Employing high-pressure infrared spectroscopy we unveil the Weyl semimetal phase of elemental Te and its topological properties. The linear frequency dependence of the optical conductivity provides clear evidence for metallization of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-31 Diego Rodriguez , Alexander A. Tsirlin , Tobias Biesner , Teppei Ueno , Takeshi Takahashi , Kaya Kobayashi , Martin Dressel , Ece Uykur

In this study, we investigate the localized surface plasmon modes of a sub-wavelength spherical nanoparticle composed of a Weyl semimetal, taking into account the axion modification of electrodynamics. We derive analytical solutions for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Francesco M. D. Pellegrino , Francesco Buccheri , G. G. N. Angilella

Relativistic massless Weyl and Dirac fermions exhibit the isotropic and linear dispersion relations to preserve the Poincar\'{e} symmetry, the most fundamental symmetry in high energy physics. In solids, the counterparts of the Poincar\'{e}…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-12 Weikang Wu , Zhi-Ming Yu , Xiaoting Zhou , Y. X. Zhao , Shengyuan A. Yang

A remarkably long-lived spin plasmon may exist in two-dimensional electron liquids with imbalanced spin up and spin down population. Predictions for this interesting mode by Agarwal et al. [Phys. Rev. B 90, 155409 (2014)] are based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-09 Dominik Kreil , Raphael Hobbiger , Jürgen T. Drachta , Helga M. Böhm

The Weyl semimetals represent a distinct category of topological materials wherein the low-energy excitations appear as the long-sought Weyl fermions. Exotic transport and optical properties are expected because of the chiral anomaly and…

Magneto-optical studies of Weyl semimetals have been proposed as a versatile tool for observing low-energy Weyl fermions in candidate materials including the chiral Landau level. However, previous theoretical results have been restricted to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-18 Marcus Stålhammar , Jorge Larana-Aragon , Johannes Knolle , Emil J. Bergholtz

Graphene as a two-dimensional (2D) topological Dirac semimetal has attracted much attention for its outstanding properties and potential applications. However, three-dimensional (3D) topological semimetals for carbon materials are still…

Collective modes in two-dimensional electron fluids show an interesting response to a background carrier flow. Surface plasmons propagating on top of a flowing Fermi liquid acquire a non-reciprocal character manifest in a $\pm k$ asymmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-01 Haoyang Gao , Zhiyu Dong , Leonid Levitov

Weyl fermions, first proposed for describing massless chiral Dirac fermions in particle physics, have not been observed yet in experiments. Recently, much effort has been devoted to explore Weyl fermions around band touching points of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-07-08 Yong Xu , Rui-Lin Chu , Chuanwei Zhang

The contribution of the polarization associated with the noncollinear parts of spins in the dielectric permeability tensor of multiferroic materials is considered. As the equilibrium state, we consider the systems of parallel spins, so we…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-13 Pavel A. Andreev

Three-dimensional Weyl fermions are found to emerge from simple cubic lattices with staggered fluxes. The mechanism is to gap the quadratic band touching by time-reversal-symmetry-breaking hoppings. The system exhibits rich phase diagrams…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-04-03 Jian-Hua Jiang

We study the dynamic response of a two-dimensional system of itinerant fermions in the vicinity of a uniform ($\mathbf{Q}=0$) Ising nematic quantum critical point of $d-$wave symmetry. The nematic order parameter is not a conserved…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-18 Avraham Klein , Samuel Lederer , Debanjan Chowdhury , Erez Berg , Andrey Chubukov

In this letter, we report the presence of novel type of plasmon Weyl points in a naturally existing material - magnetized plasma. In such a medium, conventional, purely longitudinal bulk plasma oscillations exists only along the direction…

We propose a scheme to simulate and explore Weyl semimetal physics with ultracold fermionic atoms in a two-dimensional square optical lattice subjected to experimentally realizable spin-orbit coupling and an artificial dimension from an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-07-29 Dan-Wei Zhang , Shi-Liang Zhu , Z. D. Wang

The problem of motion of a single electron interacting with a periodic lattice of two-level systems is investigated within a spinless fermion model. The Green's function is calculated in a single-site dynamical coherent potential…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-07-27 A. O. Anokhin , A. V. Zarubin , V. Yu. Irkhin

We consider the dynamics of a class of weakly interacting, gapless $1d$ fermionic systems, in presence of small external perturbations slowly varying in space and in time. We consider the evolution of the expectation values of the charge…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Marcello Porta , Giuseppe Scola , Harman Preet Singh

Motivated by recent experimental progress in the field of dipolar-Fermi gases, we investigate the quantum phases of dipolar fermions, on a triangular ladder at half filling. Using density matrix renormalization group method, in presence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-16 Bradraj Pandey , Swapan K. Pati