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Topological phase transitions, which have fascinated generations of physicists, are always demarcated by gap closures. In this work, we propose very simple 2D photonic crystal lattices with gap closure points, i.e. band degeneracies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-06 Jun Yu Lin , Nai Chao Hu , You Jian Chen , Ching Hua Lee , Xiao Zhang

Dimensionality provides a clear fingerprint on the dispersion of infrared-active, polar-optical phonons. For these phonons, the local dipoles parametrized by the Born effective charges drive the LO-TO splitting of bulk materials; this…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-23 Norma Rivano , Nicola Marzari , Thibault Sohier

Previously known three-dimensional Dirac semimetals (DSs) occur in two types -- topological DSs and nonsymmorphic DSs. Here we present a novel three-dimensional DS that exhibits both features of the topological and nonsymmorphic DSs. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-24 Yun-Tak Oh , Hong-Guk Min , Youngkuk Kim

Dirac fermions exist in many solid state systems including graphene, silicene and other two dimensional membranes such as are found in group VI dichalcogenides, as well as on the surface of some insulators where such states are protected by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-10 Zhou Li , J. P. Carbotte

Transition metal dichalcogenides like MoS$_2$, MoSe$_2$, WS$_2$, and WSe$_2$ have attracted enormous interest during recent years. They are van-der-Waals crystals with highly anisotropic properties, which allows exfoliation of individual…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-05-01 Hans Tornatzky , Roland Gillen , Hiroshi Uchiyama , Janina Maultzsch

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

Topological semimetals, such as Dirac, Weyl, or line-node semimetals, are gapless states of matter characterized by their nodal band structures and surface states. In this work, we consider layered (topologically trivial) insulating systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-12 Saavanth Velury , Taylor L. Hughes

Filling-enforced Dirac semimetals, or those required at specific fillings by the combination of crystalline and time-reversal symmetries, have been proposed and discovered in numerous materials. However, Dirac points in these materials are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-26 Steve M Young , Benjamin J. Wieder

Transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers and heterostructures are highly tunable material systems that provide excellent models for physical phenomena at the two-dimensional (2D) limit. While most studies to date have focused on electrons…

Double-Weyl fermions, as novel topological states of matter, have been mostly discussed in nonmagnetic materials. Here, based on density-functional theory and symmetry analysis, we propose the realization of fully spin-polarized double-Weyl…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-30 Lei Jin , Xiaoming Zhang , Ying Liu , Xuefang Dai , Liying Wang , Guodong Liu

We propose to simulate 3D Dirac points and line-nodes with nontrivial $Z_2$ topology in nonsymmorphic all-dielectric photonic-crystals with space-time reversal symmetry, which can be realized at infrared and microwave frequencies. Double…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-16 Hai-Xiao Wang , Yige Chen , Zhi Hong Hang , Hae-Young Kee , Jian-Hua Jiang

The three dimensional (3D) Dirac semimetal, which has been predicted theoretically, is a new electronic state of matter. It can be viewed as 3D generalization of graphene, with a unique electronic structure in which conduction and valence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-10 Sergey Borisenko , Quinn Gibson , Danil Evtushinsky , Volodymyr Zabolotnyy , Bernd Buechner , Robert J. Cava

Using the k.p theory and first-principles simulations, we report that applying a moderate pressure (> 0.6 GPa) on black phosphorus can diminish its band gap and produce one-dimensional and even two-dimensional (2D) Dirac cones,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 Ruixiang Fei , Vy Tran , Li Yang

We study the collective charge-density modes (plasmons) of two-dimensional nonsymmorphic Dirac semimetals, within the random-phase approximation (RPA) in presence of Coulomb interaction. Without loss of generality, we consider a system in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-23 Debasmita Giri , Arijit Kundu

Dirac semimetal is a class of semi-metallic phase protected by certain types of crystalline symmetries, and its low-energy effective Hamiltonian is described by Dirac equations in three dimensions (3D). Despite of various theoretical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-17 Rui-Xing Zhang , Chao-Xing Liu

Plasmons are the quantized collective oscillations of electrons in metals and doped semiconductors. The plasmons of ordinary, massive electrons are since a long time basic ingredients of research in plasmonics and in optical metamaterials.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-24 P. Di Pietro , M. Ortolani , O. Limaj , A. Di Gaspare , V. Giliberti , F. Giorgianni , M. Brahlek , N. Bansal , N. Koirala , S. Oh , P. Calvani , S. Lupi

We study the nontrivial linear magnon band crossings in the collinear antiferromagnets on the two-dimensional (2D) CaVO lattice, also realized in some iron-based superconductors such as AFe$_{1.6+x}$Se$_2$ (A = K, Rb, Cs). It is shown that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-22 S. A. Owerre

We investigate the collective plasmon modes in double layer of two dimensional materials where either one or both of the layers have tilted Dirac cone. Consistent with quite generic hydrodynamic treatment, similar to double layer graphene…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-31 Zahra Jalali-Mola , S. A. Jafari

Two-dimensional (2D) Stiefel-Whitney (SW) insulator is a fragile topological state characterized by the second SW class in the presence of space-time inversion symmetry. So far, SWIs have been proposed in several electronic materials but…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-30 Mingxiang Pan , Huaqing Huang

Two-dimensional (2D) Dirac states and Dirac points with linear dispersion are the hallmark of graphene, topological insulators, semimetals, and superconductors. Lowering a symmetry by the ferroelectric polarization opens the gap in Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Konstantin S. Denisov , Yuntian Liu , Igor Žutić