English
Related papers

Related papers: Tilted Dirac Cones in Two-Dimensional Materials: I…

200 papers

Diffusion currents are theoretically examined in two-dimensional Dirac materials, such as those of the transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) family. The transversal effects are analogues of the valley Hall (VHE) and photogalvanic (PGE)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 A. V. Snegirev , V. M. Kovalev , M. V. Entin

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

Two-dimensional semi-Dirac models describe a family of novel materials that have anisotropic dispersion with relativistic-type spectrum along one of the spatial directions and non-relativistic along another. In the present paper we perform…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-21 Daniil Asafov , Ilia Pavlov

We analyze the magneto-optical conductivity (and related magnitudes like transmittance and Faraday rotation of the irradiated polarized light) of some elemental two-dimensional Dirac materials of group IV (graphene analogues, buckled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-20 M. Calixto , A. Mayorgas , N. A. Cordero , E. Romera , O. Castaños

The over-tilting of Dirac cones has led to various fascinating quantum phenomena. Here we find that two anomalous acoustic plasmons (AAPs) are dictated by the distinct geometry of two-dimensional (2D) type-II Dirac cones, far beyond the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Chang-Xu Yan , Furu Zhang , Chao-Yang Tan , Hao-Ran Chang , Jianhui Zhou , Yugui Yao

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

Optical measurements and band structure calculations are reported on 3D Dirac materials. The electronic properties associated with the Dirac cone are identified in the reflectivity spectra of Cd$_3$As$_2$ and Na$_3$Bi single crystals. In…

We study forward scattering of 2D massless Dirac electrons at Fermi energy {\varepsilon} > 0 in single layer graphene through a 1D rectangular barrier of height {u_0} in the presence of uniform Rashba spin-orbit coupling (of strength…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Y. Avishai , Y. B. Band

The tunneling of electrons and holes in quantum structures plays a crucial role in studying the transport properties of materials and the related devices. 8-Pmmn borophene is a new two-dimensional Dirac material, which hosts tilted Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-05 Zhan Kong , Jian Li , Yi Zhang , Shu-Hui Zhang , Jia-Ji Zhu

Transverse electric (TE) modes can not propagate through the conducting solids. This is because the continuum of particle-hole excitations of conductors contaminates with the TE mode and dampes it out. But in solids hosting tilted Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Z. Jalali-Mola , S. A. Jafari

Electrostatic confinement of charge carriers in graphene is governed by Klein tunneling, a relativistic quantum process in which particle-hole transmutation leads to unusual anisotropic transmission at pn junction boundaries. Reflection and…

After the discovery of graphene and its many fascinating properties, there has been a growing interest for the study of "artificial graphenes". These are totally different and novel systems which bear exciting similarities with graphene.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-20 Gilles Montambaux

We highlight the fact that two-dimensional materials with Dirac-like low energy band structures and spin-orbit coupling will produce linearly dispersing topologically protected Jackiw-Rebbi modes at interfaces where the Dirac mass changes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-11 D. S. L. Abergel , Jonathan M. Edge , Alexander V. Balatsky

The massless Dirac electrons found at topological insulator surfaces are thought to be influenced very little by weak, non-magnetic disorder. However, a resonance effect of strongly perturbing non-magnetic impurities has been theoretically…

The newly discovered topological crystalline insulators (TCIs) harbor a complex band structure involving multiple Dirac cones. These materials are potentially highly tunable by external electric field, temperature or strain and could find…

The recent discovery of Dirac semimetals represents a new achievement in our fundamental understanding of topological states of matter. Due to their topological surface states, high mobility, and exotic properties associated with bulk Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-13 Xianbo Xiao , Shengyuan A. Yang , Zhengfang Liu , Huili Li , Guanghui Zhou

This paper reports on the topological effects of three-dimensional (3D) porous graphene with tunable pore sizes and a preserved 2D graphene system of Dirac quasiparticles on its electrical properties. This 3D architecture is characterized…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-20 Takuya Okamoto , Yoshikazu Ito , Naoka Nagamura , Keishi Akada , Takeshi Fujita , Yukio Kawano

We generalize Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) semi-classical equations for pseudospin-1 $\alpha-\mathcal{T}_3$ materials with arbitrary hopping parameter $0 < \alpha < 1$, which includes the dice lattice and graphene as two limiting cases.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Nicholas Weekes , Andrii Iurov , Liubov Zhemchuzhna , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang

We show that a planar array of bipolar waveguides in graphene can be used to engineer gapped and tilted two-dimensional Dirac cones within the electronic band structure. The presence of these gapped and tilted Dirac cones is demonstrated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-02 A. Wild , R. R. Hartmann , E. Mariani , M. E. Portnoi

Quantum states of quasiparticles in solids are dictated by symmetry. Thus, a discovery of unconventional symmetry can provide a new opportunity to reach a novel quantum state. Recently, Dirac and Weyl electrons have been observed in…