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We study the dynamics of two strongly-interacting fermions moving in 2D lattices under the action of a periodic electric field, both with and without a magnetic flux. Due to the interaction, these particles bind together forming a doublon.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-11-22 Miguel Bello , Charles E. Creffield , Gloria Platero

We study the transport properties of Dirac fermions in a graphene-based double-barrier structure composed of two tilted-cone regions separated by a central pristine graphene region. Using the transfer matrix method, we systematically…

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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

A few years ago some attention has been given to a fermionic action on the lattice, with a Wilson-like term which is chirally invariant but breaks the hypercubic space-time lattice symmetry. This action describes two Dirac fields in the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 Mario Pernici

We investigate a 6d Dirac fermion on a rectangle. It is found that the 4d spectrum is governed by $N=2$ supersymmetric quantum mechanics. Then we demonstrate that the supersymmetry is very useful for classifying all the allowed boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-25 Yukihiro Fujimoto , Kouhei Hasegawa , Kenji Nishiwaki , Makoto Sakamoto , Kentaro Tatsumi

The mode-dependent transmission of relativistic ballistic massless Dirac fermion through a graphene based double barrier structure is being investigated for various barrier parameters. We compare our results with already published work and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Ahmed Jellal , El Bouazzaoui Choubabi , Hocine Bahlouli , Abdullah Aljaafari

Dirac fermions, subject to external magnetic fields and in the presence of mass orders that assume topologically nontrivial spatial textures such as domain wall and vortices, for example, bind robust midgap states at zero energy, the number…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Bitan Roy

Two-dimensional states in confined thin films of the three-dimensional Dirac semimetal Cd3As2 are probed by transport and capacitance measurements under applied magnetic and electric fields. The results establish the two-dimensional Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-21 Luca Galletti , Timo Schumann , Omor F. Shoron , Manik Goyal , David A. Kealhofer , Honggyu Kim , Susanne Stemmer

System of Dirac fermions with random-varying mass is studied in detail. We reformulate the system by transfer-matrix formalism. Eigenvalues and wave functions are obtained numerically for various configurations of random telegraphic mass…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Koujin Takeda , Toyohiro Tsurumaru , Ikuo Ichinose , Masaomi Kimura

We consider the two-body problem in a periodic potential, and study the bound-state dispersion of a spin-$\uparrow$ fermion that is interacting with a spin-$\downarrow$ fermion through a short-range attractive interaction. Based on a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-05-13 M. Iskin

We study a Dirac Harper model for moir\'e bilayer superlattices where layer antisymmetric strain periodically modulates the interlayer coupling between two honeycomb lattices in one spatial dimension. Discrete and continuum formulations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 Abigail Timmel , E. J. Mele

Searching for new states of matter and unusual quasiparticles in emerging materials and especially low-dimensional systems is one of the major trends in contemporary condensed matter physics. Dirac materials, which host quasiparticles which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-13 C. A. Downing , M. E. Portnoi

In two-dimensional Dirac semimetals, massless Dirac fermions can form a series of Efimov-like quasibound states in an attractive Coulomb potential. In an applied magnetic field, these quasibound states can become bound states around the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-19 Mingyuan Sun

We consider a Dirac field in 2+1 dimensions with a domain wall like defect in its mass, minimally coupled to a dynamical Abelian vector field. The mass of the fermionic field is assumed to have just one linear domain wall, which is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Da Rold , C. D. Fosco , A. Lopez

We study the low-energy density of states of Dirac fermions in disordered d-wave superconductor. At zero energy, a finite density of states is obtained via the mechanism of dynamical mass generation in an effective (1+1)-dimensional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-11-23 Guo-Zhu Liu

We reexamine the existence and stability conditions of Dirac points between valence and conduction bands of 3/4 filled $\alpha$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$ conducting plane. We consider the usual nearest neigbhor tight binding model with the seven…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-13 Frédéric Piéchon , Yoshikazu Suzumura , Takao Morinari

This review aims at a theoretical discussion of Dirac points in two-dimensional systems. Whereas Dirac points and Dirac fermions are prominent low-energy electrons in graphene (two-dimensional graphite), research on Dirac fermions in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-16 Mark O. Goerbig , Gilles Montambaux

Zero-mass lines result in appearance of linear dispersion modes for Dirac fermions. These modes play an important role in various physical systems. However, a Dirac fermion may not precisely follow a single zero-mass line, due to either…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Timur Tudorovskiy , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

A class of graphene wound into three-dimensional periodic curved surfaces ("graphitic zeolites") is proposed and their electronic structures are obtained to explore how the massless Dirac fermions behave on periodic surfaces. We find in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Mikito Koshino , Hideo Aoki

Dirac-like electronic states are the main engines powering the tremendous advances in research of graphene, topological insulators and other materials with these states. Zero effective mass, high carrier mobility and numerous applications…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-19 Vladimir Damljanovic , Rados Gajic , Igor Popov