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The in-plane acoustic phonon scattering in graphene is solved by considering fully inelastic acoustic phonon scatterings in two-dimensional (2D) Dirac materials for large range of temperature ($T$) and chemical potential ($\mu$). Rigorous…
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Cu$_3$TeO$_6$, a three-dimensional antiferromagnet forming a unique spin-web lattice of spin-1/2 Cu2+ ions below the Neel temperature T$_N$ = 62 K, has recently been found to exhibit topological Dirac or nodal magnon dispersion. In this…
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