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We study the quasiparticle properties of two-dimensional massless Dirac Fermions when the many-body states possess a finite momentum density in the clean limit. The lack of Galilean invariance endows the many-body states at finite momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Inti Sodemann

Ettore Majorana (1906-1938) disappeared while traveling by ship from Palermo to Naples in 1938. His fate has never been fully resolved and several articles have been written that explore the mystery itself. His demise intrigues us still…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-02-12 S. R. Elliott , M. Franz

We postulate the second-order derivative equation with four parameters for spin-1/2 fermions possessing two mass states. For some choice of parameters fermions propagate with the superluminal speed. Thus, the novel tachyonic equation is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-11 S. I. Kruglov

We relax one of the requirements for topological quantum computation with Majorana fermions. Topological quantum computation was discussed so far as manipulation of the wave function within degenerate many body ground state. The simplest…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-10-12 A. R. Akhmerov

Active Brownian motion is the complex motion of active Brownian particles. They are active in the sense that they can transform their internal energy into energy of motion and thus create complex motion patterns. Theories of active Brownian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-03-04 Alexander Gluck , Helmuth Huffel , Sasa Ilijic

We establish the quantum mechanics of composite fermions based on the dipole picture initially proposed by Read. It comprises three complimentary components: a wave equation for determining the wave functions of a composite fermion in ideal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-24 Junren Shi

We propose a new approach to create Majorana fermions at the edge of a periodically driven semiconductor-superconductor Heterostructure. We calculate the quasi-energy spectrum of the periodically driven Heterostructure by using the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Chen-Cheng Wu , Jiao Sun , Fei-Jie Huang , Yun-De Li , Wu-Ming Liu

A compact method for amplitude calculations in theories with Dirac and Majorana effective operators is discussed. Using the renormalizable formalism of Denner et al., [1,2] for propagators, vertices and fermion (number) flow and introducing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-02 Michael Paraskevas

We investigate the behavior of a pair of heavy fermions, denoted by $Q$ and $\bar{Q}$, in a hot/dense medium. Although we have in mind the situation where $Q$ and $\bar{Q}$ denote heavy quarks, our treatment will be limited to simplified…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Beraudo , J. -P. Blaizot , C. Ratti

We propose the concept of the time-independent correlators for the even- and odd-frequency pairing states that can be defined for both bosonic and fermionic quasiparticles. These correlators explicitly capture the existence of two distinct…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-02-24 A. V. Balatsky , P. O. Sukhachov , S. Bandyopadhyay

An essential step towards the identification of a fermion mass generation mechanism at Planck scale is to analyse massive fermions in a given quantum gravity framework. In this letter the two mass terms entering the Hamiltonian constraint…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Merced Montesinos-Velasquez , Hugo A. Morales-Tecotl , Tonatiuh Matos

We propose and study the properties of a non-linear electrodynamics that emerges inspired on the physics of Dirac materials. This new electrodynamic model is an extension of the one-loop corrected non-linear effective Lagrangian computed in…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-29 M. J. Neves , Patricio Gaete , L. P. R. Ospedal , J. A. Helayël-Neto

Integrating over a continuum Majorana fermion formally yields a functional pfaffian. We show that the phase of this pfaffian is ambiguous, as it depends on the choice of basis. This ambiguity is naturally resolved within a non-perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-08-14 Maarten Golterman , Yigal Shamir

Usually, we study the statistical behaviours of noninteracting Fermions in finite (mainly two and three) dimensions. For a fixed number of fermions, the average energy per fermion is calculated in two and in three dimensions and it becomes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-01-12 Muktish Acharyya

An Ising-type classical statistical ensemble can describe the quantum physics of fermions if one chooses a particular law for the time evolution of the probability distribution. It accounts for the time evolution of a quantum field theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 C. Wetterich

Majorana fermions (MFs) are exotic particles that are their own anti-particles. Recently, the search for the MFs occurring as quasi-particle excitations in solid-state systems has attracted widespread interest, because of their fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-22 Jun Li , Ting Yu , Hai-Qing Lin , J. Q. You

In this study, a novel theory to investigate the mass oscillation of particles is proposed. It has been proven that, at high-energy conditions, the fermion field described by Dirac Lagrangian interacts with the half-integer spin tachyon…

General Physics · Physics 2018-07-24 Luca Nanni

We derive quantum kinetic equations for fermions in a homogeneous time-dependent background in presence of decohering collisions, by use of the Schwinger-Keldysh CTP-formalism. The quantum coherence (between particles and antiparticles) is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-03-24 Matti Herranen , Kimmo Kainulainen , Pyry Matti Rahkila

While the sign problem of the Dirac fermion is conditioned by the semi-positivity of a determinant, that of the Majorana fermion is conditioned by the semi-positivity of a Pfaffian. We introduce one sufficient condition for the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-03-29 Arata Yamamoto , Tomoya Hayata

We consider a gas of fermions with a short-range attractive intercomponent interaction in a parabolic external potential and derive the conditions of the local density approximation. The obtained spectrum of quasiparticle (isospin)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-11-10 M. Colomé-Tatché , G. V. Shlyapnikov , A. M. Tsvelik