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The extraordinary electronic properties of Dirac materials, the two-dimensional partners of Weyl semimetals, arise from the linear crossings in their band structure. When the dispersion around the Dirac points is tilted, the emergence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 M. Milićević , G. Montambaux , T. Ozawa , I. Sagnes , A. Lemaître , L. Le Gratiet , A. Harouri , J. Bloch , A. Amo

In amorphous solids, the vibrational density of states shows an excess of modes over the Debye model, known as the boson peak, whose origin remains unclear. Studies suggest a link to quasi-localized nonphononic vibrations or 'defects,' but…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-10 Shivam Mahajan , Darryl Seow Yang Han , Cunyuan Jiang , Matteo Baggioli , Massimo Pica Ciamarra

The unique structure of two-dimensional (2D) Dirac crystals, with electronic bands linear in the proximity of the Brillouin-zone boundary and the Fermi energy, creates anomalous situations where small Fermi-energy perturbations are known to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-24 Sina Kazemian , Giovanni Fanchini

Dirac-Weyl semimetals host both Dirac and Weyl fermions and the exploration of material candidates with tunable topological properties is essential to realize topological spintronic devices. In this work, we propose CaAgBi as a Dirac-Weyl…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-15 Shenghao Huang , Heng Gao , Hongfei Wang , Wei Ren

Weyl points and line nodes are three-dimensional linear point- and line-degeneracies between two bands. In contrast to Dirac points, which are their two-dimensional analogues, Weyl points are stable in the momentum space and the associated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-29 Ling Lu , Liang Fu , John D. Joannopoulos , Marin Soljačić

We introduce two-dimensional borane, a single-layered material of BH stoichiometry, with promising electronic properties. We show that, according to Density Functional Theory calculations, two-dimensional borane is semimetallic, with two…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-01 Miguel Martinez-Canales , Timur R. Galeev , Alexander I. Boldyrev , Chris J. Pickard

Topological phases arise from the elegant mathematical structures imposed by the interplay between symmetry and topology1-5. From gapped topological insulators to gapless semimetals, topological materials in both quantum and classical…

Weyl points (WPs), as nodal degenerate points in three-dimensional (3D) momentum space, are ideal if they are symmetry-related, well-separated, residing at the same energy and far from the nontopological bands. Although type-II WPs show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-04 Rujiang Li , Bo Lv , Huibin Tao , Jinhui Shi , Yidong Chong , Baile Zhang , Hongsheng Chen

Topological semimetals, known for their intriguing properties arising from band degeneracies, have garnered significant attention. However, the discovery of a material realization and the detailed characterization of spinless Dirac…

We consider theoretically, using the random phase approximation (RPA), low-energy intrinsic plasmons for two-dimensional (2D) systems obeying Dirac-like linear chiral dispersion with the chemical potential set precisely at the charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 S. Das Sarma , Qiuzi Li

We study the occurrence of symmetry-enforced topological band crossings in tetragonal crystals with strong spin-orbit coupling. By computing the momentum dependence of the symmetry eigenvalues and the global band topology in the entire…

We develop a theory for long wavelength phonons originating at dislocations separating domains in small-angle twisted homobilayers of 2D materials such as graphene and MX$_2$ transition metal dichalcogenides (M=Mo,W; X=S,Se). We find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 V. V. Enaldiev

Topological phonons in crystalline materials have been attracting great interest. However, most cases studied so far are direct generalizations of the topological states from electronic systems. Here, we reveal a novel class of topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-06 Jiaojiao Zhu , Weikang Wu , Jianzhou Zhao , Hao Chen , Lifa Zhang , Shengyuan A. Yang

Relativistic massless Dirac fermions can be probed with high-energy physics experiments, but appear also as low-energy quasi-particle excitations in electronic band structures. In condensed matter systems, their massless nature can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-15 M. Horio , C. E. Matt , K. Kramer , D. Sutter , A. M. Cook , Y. Sassa , K. Hauser , M. Månsson , N. C. Plumb , M. Shi , O. J. Lipscombe , S. M. Hayden , T. Neupert , J. Chang

A single Dirac cone on the surface is the hallmark of three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators, where the double degeneracy at the Dirac point is protected by time-reversal symmetry and the spin-splitting away from the point is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-05 Ling Lu , Chen Fang , Liang Fu , Steven G. Johnson , John D. Joannopoulos , Marin Soljačić

Two-dimensional Dirac semimetals have attracted much attention because of their linear energy dispersion and non-trivial Berry phase. Graphene-like 2D Dirac materials are gapless only within certain approximations, e.g., if spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 Amarnath Chakraborty , Guang Bian , Giovanni Vignale

The boson peak is an excess in the phonon density of states relative to the Debye Model, which occurs at frequencies below the Debye limit. It is present in most amorphous materials and, as was recently shown, can sometimes be found also in…

We classify possible boundary conditions of a 6d Dirac fermion $\Psi$ on a rectangle under the requirement that the 4d Lorentz structure is maintained, and derive the profiles and spectrum of the zero modes and nonzero KK modes under the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-21 Yukihiro Fujimoto , Kouhei Hasegawa , Kenji Nishiwaki , Makoto Sakamoto , Kentaro Tatsumi

Topological states of electrons and photons have attracted significant interest recently. Topological mechanical states also being actively explored, have been limited to macroscopic systems of kHz frequency. The discovery of topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-10 Tiantian Zhang , Zhida Song , A. Alexandradinata , Hongming Weng , Chen Fang , Ling Lu , Zhong Fang

Honeycomb structures lead to conically degenerate points on the dispersion surfaces. These spectral points, termed as Dirac points, are responsible for various topological phenomena. In this paper, we investigate the generalized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-23 Borui Miao , Yi Zhu