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We propose two novel two-dimensional topological Dirac materials, planar PtN4C2 and Pt2N8C6, which exhibit graphene-like electronic structures with linearly dispersive Dirac-cone states exactly at the Fermi level. Moreover, the Dirac cone…

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Three-dimensional (3D) topological Dirac semimetal is a new kind of material that has a linear energy dispersion in 3D momentum space and can be viewed as an analog of graphene. Extensive efforts have been devoted to the understanding of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-03 Enze Zhang , Yanwen Liu , Weiyi Wang , Cheng Zhang , Peng Zhou , Zhi-Gang Chen , Jin Zou , Faxian Xiu

New developments in the field of topological matter are often driven by materials discovery, including novel topological insulators, Dirac semimetals and Weyl semimetals. In the last few years, large efforts have been performed to classify…

Dirac fermions are at the forefront of modern condensed matter physics research. They are known to occur in materials as diverse as graphene, topological insulators, and transition metal dichalcogenides, while closely related Weyl fermions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-04 Hong Liu , Dimitrie Culcer

Armchair and zigzag edge terminations in planar hexagonal and trigonal graphene nanorings are shown to underlie one-dimensional topological states associated with distinctive energy gaps and patterns (e.g., linear dispersion of the energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-26 Igor Romanovsky , Constantine Yannouleas , Uzi Landman

Artificial lattices have been employed in many two-dimensional systems, including those of electrons, atoms and photons, in a quest for massless Dirac particles with flexibility and controllability. Periodically patterned molecule assembly…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-25 Zhenglu Li , Ting Cao , Meng Wu , Steven G. Louie

We consider graphene superlattice miniband fermions probed by electronic interferometry in magneto-transport experiments. By decoding the observed Fabry-P\'erot interference patterns together with our corresponding quantum transport…

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Enhancing light-matter interaction by exciting Dirac plasmons on nanopatterned monolayer graphene is an efficient route to achieve high infrared absorption. Here, we designed and fabricated the hexagonal planar arrays of nanohole and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-05 Alireza Safaei , Sayan Chandra , Michael N. Leuenberger , Debashis Chanda

Here we study the systematic evolution of the topological properties of a Chern insulator in presence of an electronic dispersion that can be tuned smoothly from being Dirac-like till a semi-Dirac one and beyond. The band structure under…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-31 Sayan Mondal , Priyadarshini Kapri , Bashab Dey , Tarun Kanti Ghosh , Saurabh Basu

We study the band structure of graphene's Dirac-Weyl quasi-particles in a one-dimensional magnetic superlattice formed by a periodic sequence of alternating magnetic barriers. The spectrum and the nature of the states strongly depend on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Luca Dell'Anna , Alessandro De Martino

It is highly desirable to integrate graphene into existing semiconductor technology, where the combined system is thermodynamically stable yet maintain a Dirac cone at the Fermi level. Firstprinciples calculations reveal that a certain…

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This letter presents our findings on the recursive band gap engineering of chiral fermions in bilayer graphene doubly aligned with hBN. By utilizing two interfering moir\'{e} potentials, we generate a supermoir\'{e} pattern which…

We aim to understand how the spectrum of semi-Dirac fermions is renormalized due to long-range Coulomb electron-electron interactions at a topological Lifshitz transition, where two Dirac cones merge. At the transition, the electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-07 Valeri N. Kotov , Bruno Uchoa , Oleg P. Sushkov

We investigate the ultrafast relaxation dynamics of hot Dirac fermionic quasiparticles in multilayer epitaxial graphene using ultrafast optical differential transmission spectroscopy. We observe DT spectra which are well described by…

The low energy quasiparticle dispersion of various narrow gap and gapless semiconductors are respectively described by three dimensional massive and massless Dirac fermions. The three dimensional Dirac spinor structure admits a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-19 Pallab Goswami , Bitan Roy

Ferromagnetic resonance is used to reveal features of the buried electronic band structure at interfaces between ferromagnetic metals and topological insulators. By monitoring the evolution of magnetic damping, the application of this…

We demonstrate a generic mechanism to realize topological flat minibands by confining massive Dirac fermions in a periodic moir\'e potential, which can be achieved in a heterobilayer of transition metal dichalcogenides. We show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-28 Ying Su , Heqiu Li , Chuanwei Zhang , Kai Sun , Shi-Zeng Lin

Large-area thin films of topological Dirac semimetal Na$_3$Bi are grown on amorphous SiO$_2$:Si substrates to realise a field-effect transistor with the doped Si acting as back gate. As-grown films show charge carrier mobilities exceeding…

Peculiar electronic properties of graphene, including the universal dc conductivity and the pseudodiffusive shot noise, are usually attributed to a small vicinity of the charge-neutrality point, away from which electron's effective mass…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Adam Rycerz

In an ideal graphene sheet charge carriers behave as two-dimensional (2D) Dirac fermions governed by the quantum mechanics of massless relativistic particles. This has been confirmed by the discovery of a half-integer quantum Hall effect in…

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