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The one-loop polarization function of graphene has been calculated at zero temperature for arbitrary wavevector, frequency, chemical potential (doping), and band gap. The result is expressed in terms of elementary functions and is used to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-12-12 P. K. Pyatkovskiy

We predict that spin-waves in an ordered square quantum antiferromagnet in a transverse magnetic field (h) may demonstrate three modes of spin excitations. Starting from the self-consistent rotation-invariant Green's function method, a new…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-30 P. S. Savchenkov , A. F. Barabanov

Investigation of real two-dimensional systems with Dirac-like electronic behavior under the influence of magnetic field is challenging and leads to many interesting physical results. In this paper we study 2D graphene model with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-11 E. A. Stepanov , V. Ch. Zhukovsky

We evaluate the dispersion relation for massless fermions, described by the Dirac equation, and for zero-spin bosons, described by the Klein-Gordon equation, moving in two dimensions and in the presence of a one-dimensional periodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 M. Barbier , F. M. Peeters , P. Vasilopoulos , J. Milton Pereira

Single-layer graphenes subject to periodic lateral strains are artificial crystals that can support boundary spectra with an intrinsic polarity. These are analyzed by comparing the effects of periodic magnetic fields and strain-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 Vo Tien Phong , E. J. Mele

A number of recent works have discussed the issue of spin polarization of a Majorana zero mode in condensed matter systems. Here we show that the spin polarization density of a Majorana zero mode, computed as an average of the spin operator…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-17 Tudor D. Stanescu , Sumanta Tewari

We study a single 2d Dirac fermion at finite density, subject to a quenched random magnetic field. At low energies and sufficiently weak disorder, the theory maps onto an infinite collection of 1d chiral fermions (associated to each point…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-07 Chao-Jung Lee , Michael Mulligan

We study the dynamics of the electrons in a non-uniform magnetic field applied perpendicular to a graphene sheet in the low energy limit when the excitation states can be described by a Dirac type Hamiltonian. We show that as compared to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-22 P. Rakyta , L. Oroszlany , A. Kormanyos , C. J. Lambert , J. Cserti

We show how it is possible to trap two-dimensional massless Dirac fermions in spatially inhomogeneous magnetic fields, as long as the formed magnetic quantum dot (or ring) is of a slowly decaying nature. It is found that a modulation of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-11 C. A. Downing , M. E. Portnoi

We consider a self-consistent axially symmetric system supported by a classical nonlinear spinor field minimally coupled to electric and magnetic Maxwell fields. The presence of the nonlinearity of the spinor field ensures the existence of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-03 Vladimir Dzhunushaliev , Vladimir Folomeev

We consider single-layer plane graphene with electronic excitations described by the Dirac equation. Using a known representation of the polarization tensor in terms of the spinor loop we show the existence of surface modes, i.e., of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-17 M. Bordag

We study the emergence of several magnetic phases in dipolar bosonic gases subject to three-body loss mechanism employing numerical simulations based on the density matrix renormalization group(DMRG) algorithm. After mapping the original…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-04-14 M. Dalmonte , M. Di Dio , L. Barbiero , F. Ortolani

A fermion node is subset of fermionic configurations for which a real wave function vanishes due to the antisymmetry and the node divides the configurations space into compact nodal cells (domains). We analyze the properties of fermion…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Lubos Mitas

We present a tight-binding theory of triangular graphene quantum dots (TGQD) with zigzag edge and broken sublattice symmetry in external magnetic field. The lateral size quantization opens an energy gap and broken sublattice symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-24 A. D. Guclu , P. Potasz , P. Hawrylak

Two theorems on electron states in helimagnets are proved. They reveal a Kramers-like degeneracy in helical magnetic field. Since a commensurate helical magnetic system is transitionally invariant with two multiple periods (ordinary…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-16 Yu. B. Kudasov

The spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the frustrated diamond-decorated square lattice is known to feature various zero-field ground-state phases, consisting of extended monomer-dimer and dimer-tetramer ground states as well as a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-27 Nils Caci , Katarina Karlova , Taras Verkholyak , Jozef Strecka , Stefan Wessel , Andreas Honecker

We investigate the effect of a periodic potential on the electronic states and conductance of graphene. It is demonstrated that for a cosine potential $V(x)=V_0\cos(G_0x)$, new zero energy states emerge whenever $J_0(\frac {2V_0}{\hbar v_F…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 L. Brey , H. A. Fertig

Compensated magnets with vanishing net magnetization can exhibit both pronounced spin splitting and unconventional band degeneracies. In altermagnets, such degeneracies are enforced by crystal and magnetic symmetries. In compensated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Seung Hun Lee , Yuting Qian , Xi Dai , Bohm-Jung Yang

We study the behavior of two-dimensional Dirac fermions in the presence of a static long-range-correlated random vector potential. By applying an exact path integral representation for the propagator of a spinor particle we obtain…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 D. V. Khveshchenko , A. G. Yashenkin

In this article we investigate the possibility of generating piezoelectric orbital polarization in graphene-like systems which are deformed periodically. We start with discrete two-level models which depend on control parameters; in this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Giuseppe De Nittis , Max Lein