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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…

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Here we present the theoretical clarification of possibility of eight Majorana-like modes (quasi-particles which are self-conjugate) close to the experimentally inaccessible Dirac points of a two-dimensional monolayer Dirac system. The…

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We consider the vortex state of d-wave superconductors in the clean limit. Within the linearized approximation the quasiparticle bands obtained are found to posess Dirac cone dispersion (band touchings) at special points in the Brillouin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Ashvin Vishwanath

The phase transition between type-I and type-II Dirac semimetals will reveal a series of significant physical properties because of their completely distinct electronic, optical and magnetic properties. However, no mechanism and materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-18 Yuee Xie , Yujiao Kang , Xiaohong Yan , Yuanping Chen

We generalize a proposal by Sorensen et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 086803 (2005)] for creating an artificial magnetic field in a cold atom system on a square optical lattice. This leads us to an effective lattice model with tunable spatially…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-12-13 Malcolm P. Kennett , Nazanin Komeilizadeh , Kamran Kaveh , Peter M. Smith

The unconventional properties of graphene, with a massless Dirac band dispersion and large coherence properties, have raised a large interest for applications in nanoelectronics. In this work, we emphasize that graphene two dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-27 Pierre Darancet , Valerio Olevano , Didier Mayou

Superconductivity of the second kind was observed in many 3D Weyl and Dirac semi-metals. However in PdT e2, superconductivity is clearly of the first kind. This is very rare in Dirac semi - metals, but is expected in clean conventional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-15 B. Ya. Shapiro , I. Shapiro , Dingping Li , Baruch Rosenstein

Nodal line semimetals are characterized by symmetry-protected band crossing lines and are expected to exhibit nontrivial electronic properties. Connections of the multiple nodal lines, resulting in nodal nets, chains, or links, are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Ding-Fu Shao , Shu-Hui Zhang , Xiaoqian Dang , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Topological insulators are candidates to open up a novel route in spin based electronics. Different to traditional ferromagnetic materials, where the carrier spin-polarization and magnetization are based on the exchange interaction, the…

Valley-Hall phases, first proposed in two-dimensional (2D) materials, originate from nontrivial topologies around valleys which denote local extrema in momentum space. Since they are extended into classical systems, their designs draw…

We show that the (2+1)-dimensional massless Dirac equation, which includes a tilt term, can be reduced to the biconfluent Heun equation for a broad range of scalar confining potentials, including the well-known Morse potential. Applying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-14 R. R. Hartmann , M. E. Portnoi

We report a unified theory based on linear response, for analyzing the longitudinal optical conductivity (LOC) of materials with tilted Dirac cones. Depending on the tilt parameter $t$, the Dirac electrons have four phases: untilted,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Jian-Tong Hou , Chang-Xu Yan , Chao-Yang Tan , Zhi-Qiang Li , Peng Wang , Hong Guo , Hao-Ran Chang

Two-dimensional Dirac semimetals with a single massless Dirac cone exhibit the parity anomaly. Usually, such a kind of anomalous topological semimetallic phase in real materials is unstable where any amount of disorder can drive it into a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-14 Zhen Ning , Xianyong Ding , Dong-Hui Xu , Rui Wang

Two-dimensional Dirac physics has aroused great interests in condensed matter physics ever since the discovery of graphene and topological insulators due to its importance in both fundamental physics and device applications. The ability to…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-21 Xiao-Yu Dong , Jian-Feng Wang , Rui-Xing Zhang , Wen-Hui Duan , Bang-Fen Zhu , Jorge Sofo , Chao-Xing Liu

Polymorph of 8-Pmmn borophene exhibits anisotropic tilted Dirac cones. In this work, we explore the consequences of the tilted Dirac cones in magnetotransport properties of a periodically modulated borophene. We evaluate modulation induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-13 SK Firoz Islam , A. M. Jayannavar

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

The prospect of a Dirac half metal, a material which is characterized by a bandstructure with a gap in one spin channel but a Dirac cone in the other, is of both fundamental interest and a natural candidate for use in spin-polarized current…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-23 Yuanchang Li , Damien West , Huaqing Huang , Jia Li , S. B. Zhang , Wenhui Duan

An antiferromagnetic semimetal has been recently identified as a new member of topological semimetals that may host three-dimensional symmetry-protected Dirac fermions. A reorientation of the N\'{e}el vector may break the underlying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-19 Youngseok Kim , Kisung Kang , André Schleife , Matthew J. Gilbert

Dirac-electronic tunneling and nonlinear transport properties with both finite and zero energy bandgap are investigated for graphene with a tilted potential barrier under a bias. For validation, results from a finite-difference based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-01 Farhana Anwar , Andrii Iurov , Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs , Ashwani Sharma

The simulation of fermionic relativistic physics, e.g., Dirac and Weyl physics, has led to the discovery of many unprecedented phenomena in photonics, of which the optical-frequency realization is, however, still challenging. Here,…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-18 Hai-Xiao Wang , Yige Chen , Guang-Yu Guo , Hae-Young Kee , Jian-Hua Jiang