Related papers: Dirac phonons in two-dimensional materials
We show that the usual expression for evaluating electron-phonon coupling and the phonon linewidth in 2D metals with a cylindrical Fermi surface cannot be applied near the wave vector corresponding to the Kohn singularity. Instead, the…
We simulate boron on Pb(110) surface by using ab initio evolutionary methodology. Interestingly, the two-dimensional (2D) Dirac Pmmn boron can be formed because of good lattice matching. Unexpectedly, by increasing the thickness of 2D…
It is shown that the symmetry enforced Dirac points exist at some time reversal symmetric momenta in antiferroemgnetic compound GdB$_4$. These Dirac points may be controlled by the external magnetic field or by the deformation of the…
Two-dimensional (2D) Dirac states with linear band dispersion have attracted enormous interest since the discovery of graphene. However, to date, 2D Dirac semimetals are still very rare due to the fact that 2D Dirac states are generally…
We derive the phonon dynamics of magnetic metals in the presence of strong spin-orbit coupling. We show that both a dissipationless viscosity and a dissipative viscosity arise in the dynamics. While the dissipationless viscosity splits the…
The spinorial degrees of freedom of two or more spacelike separated Dirac particles are considered and a method for constructing mixed polynomials that are invariant under the spinor representations of the local proper orthochronous Lorentz…
We study topological magnons on an anisotropic square-hexagon-octagon (SHO) lattice which has been found by a two-dimensional Biphenylene network (BPN). We propose the concepts of type-II Dirac magnonic states where new schemes to achieve…
Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) nanosheets exhibit remarkable electronic and optical properties. The 2D features, sizable bandgaps, and recent advances in the synthesis, characterization, and device fabrication of…
Two-dimensional (2D) materials may host circular phonons, considered as chiral if the presence of a substrate breaks mirror symmetry. In 2D transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayers lacking inversion symmetry, phonons with a given…
The nodal and effectively relativistic dispersion featuring in a range of novel materials including two- dimensional graphene and three-dimensional Dirac and Weyl semimetals has attracted enormous interest during the past decade. Here, by…
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…
Two-dimensional materials (2DMs) have been widely investigated because of their potential for heterogeneous integration with modern electronics. However, several major challenges remain, such as the deposition of high-quality dielectrics on…
In this paper we study in detail the connection between the solutions to the Dirac and Weyl equation and the associated electromagnetic 4-potentials. First, it is proven that all solutions to the Weyl equations are degenerate, in the sense…
We present Phonon Unfolding, a Fortran90 program for unfolding phonon dispersions. It unfolds phonon dispersions by using a generalized projection algorithm, which can be used to any kind of atomic systems in principle. Thus our present…
It is well known that a single Dirac cone at high-symmetry point (HSP) of a Brillouin zone, akin to the one in graphenes' band structure, can not appear as the only quasiparticle at the Fermi level in two-dimensional (2D), non-magnetic…
We explore the ultrafast reflectivity response from photo-generated coupled phonon-surface Dirac plasmons in Sb$_2$Te$_3$ topological insulators several quintuple layers thick. The transient coherent phonon spectra obtained at different…
We explore the collective density oscillations of a collection of charged massive Dirac particles, in one, two and three dimensions and their one dimensional superlattice. We calculate the long wavelength limit of the dynamical polarization…
Condensed matter systems provide a rich setting to realize Dirac and Majorana fermionic excitations and the possibility to manipulate them in materials for potential applications. Recently, it has been proposed that Weyl fermions, which are…
We show that a wide class of quantum systems with translational invariance can host dispersionless, soliton-like, wave packets. We focus on the setting where the effective, two-dimensional Hamiltonian acquires the form of the Dirac…
The phonon dispersion unfolding method is useful for obtaining hidden Bloch symmetries and comparing theoretical results with experiment spectrums (e.g., inelastic neutron scattering, inelastic X-ray scattering, Raman). In this paper, we…