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The paper presents the author view on spin-rooted properties of graphene supported by numerous experimental and calculation evidences. Dirac fermions of crystalline graphene and local spins of graphene molecules are suggested to meet a…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-28 Elena F. Sheka

Nonsymmorphic symmetries can give rise to Dirac semimetal (DSM) states. However, few studies have been conducted on DSMs in interacting systems. Here, we induce interacting DSM states in nonsymmorphic iridium oxides SrIrO$_3$, BaIrO$_3$ and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-18 Zhi-Ming Yang , Huan Li

Understanding and control of spin degrees of freedom on the surfaces of topological materials are key to future applications as well as for realizing novel physics such as the axion electrodynamics associated with time-reversal (TR)…

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

The three-dimensional (3D) topological Dirac semimetal is a new topological phase of matter, viewed as the 3D analogy of graphene with a linear dispersion in the 3D momentum space. Here, we report the angular dependent magnetotransport in…

A neutral Dirac fermion is supplied as a singlet within the context of the standard model (SM) and is considered as a dark matter (DM) candidate near electroweak scale (10-1000 GeV) with nonzero magnetic dipole moment. The Dirac particles…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-09-17 Jae Ho Heo

Magnetoresistance in many samples of Dirac semimetal and topological insulator displays non-monotonic behaviors over a wide range of magnetic field. Here a formula of magnetoconductivity is presented for massless and massive Dirac fermions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Bo Fu , Huan-Wen Wang , Shun-Qing Shen

In ferromagnet/heavy metal bilayers, an in-plane current gives rise to spin-orbit spin transfer torque which is usually decomposed into field-like and damping-like torques. For two-dimensional free-electron and tight-binding models with…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-22 Ki-Seung Lee , Dongwook Go , Aurelien Manchon , Paul M. Haney , M. D. Stiles , Hyun-Woo Lee , Kyung-Jin Lee

We theoretically study the spin-orbit crossed susceptibility of topological Dirac semimetals. Because of strong spin-orbit coupling, the orbital motion of electrons is modulated by Zeeman coupling, which contributes to orbital…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-21 Yuya Ominato , Shuta Tatsumi , Kentaro Nomura

We propose a new approach to derive spin torque in systems of broken inversion symmetry. It uses the concepts of asymmetric and directional spin-spin interactions to obtain their effective fields. We applied the effective fields into the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-30 H. Y. Kwon , S. P. Kang , N. J. Kim , C. K. Lee , C. Won

Dirac carriers in graphene are commonly characterized by a pseudospin degree of freedom, arising from the degeneracy of the two inequivalent sublattices. The inherent chirality of the quasiparticles leads to a topologically non-trivial band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Marta Prada

Motivated by recent observations of unconventional out-of-plane dampinglike torque in \ch{WTe2}/Permalloy bilayer systems, we calculate the spin-orbit torque generated in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD)-ferromagnet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-07 Fei Xue , Christoph Rohmann , Junwen Li , Vivek Amin , Paul Haney

Using an evolutionary algorithm in combination with first-principles density functional theory calculations, we identify two-dimensional (2D) CaP$_3$ monolayer as a new Dirac semimetal due to inversion and nonsymmorphic spatial symmetries…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-06 Seoung-Hun Kang , Wei Luo , Sinchul Yeom , Yaling Zheng , Mina Yoon

Itinerant electrons in a two-dimensional Kagome lattice form a Dirac semi-metal, similar to graphene. When lattice and spin symmetries are broken by various periodic perturbations this semi-metal is shown to spawn interesting non-magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 H. -M. Guo , M. Franz

We investigate charge and spin currents that may appear in some materials, considering the possible couplings and the symmetries of a field-theoretical model presented here. We inspect these possible currents in (1+2) dimensions by adopting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-06 Cristine N. Ferreira , J. P. S. Alves e Silva , J. A. Helayel Neto , N. Panza

Nonsymmorphic symmetries, which involve fractional lattice translations in crystalline materials, can generate exotic types of fermionic excitations that are robust against spin-orbit coupling. Here we report on a hourglass-type dispersion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-08 Shan-Shan Wang , Ying Liu , Zhi-Ming Yu , Xian-Lei Sheng , Shengyuan A. Yang

The concepts of Weyl fermions and topological semimetals emerging in three-dimensional momentum space are extensively explored owing to the vast variety of exotic properties that they give rise to. On the other hand, very little is known…

Low crystal symmetry of magnetic van der Waals materials naturally promotes spin-orbital complexity unachievable in common magnetic materials used for spin-orbit torque switching. Here, using first-principles methods, we demonstrate that an…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-09 Tom G. Saunderson , Dongwook Go , Stefan Blügel , Mathias Kläui , Yuriy Mokrousov

We present a unified theory of charge carrier transport in 2D Dirac systems with broken mirror inversion and time-reversal symmetries (e.g., as realized in ferromagnetic graphene). We find that the entanglement between spin and pseudospin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-21 Manuel Offidani , Aires Ferreira

Dirac semimetals (DSMs), characterized by linear dispersion relations in their electronic band structure, have gained prominence due to their unique topological features and potential applications in electronic devices. Through systematic…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-31 Shivendra Kumar Gupta , Nikhilesh Singh , Saurabh Kumar Sen , Poorva Singh