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An effective Proca Lagrangian action is used to address the vector condensation Lorentz violation effects on the equation of state of the strongly interacting fermions system. The interior quantum fluctuation effects are incorporated as an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-08-26 Ji-sheng Chen

We demonstrate that a thermal metal of Majorana fermions forms in a two-dimensional system of interacting non-Abelian (Ising) anyons in the presence of moderate disorder. This bulk metallic phase arises in the $\nu=5/2$ quantum Hall state…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-04-12 Chris R. Laumann , Andreas W. W. Ludwig , David A. Huse , Simon Trebst

We study Dirac fermions in the presence of a space-dependent chiral gauge field and thermodynamic gradients, establishing a connection to the inverse spin Hall effect. The chiral gauge field induces a chiral magnetic field, resulting in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Hung-Hsuan Teh , Tokiro Numasawa , Shun Okumura , Takashi Oka

We report on the observation of the giant spin-polarized photocurrent in HgTe/HgCdTe quantum well (QW) of critical thickness at which a Dirac spectrum emerges. Exciting QW of 6.6 nm width by terahertz (THz) radiation and sweeping magnetic…

It has been suggested that a temperature gradient will induce a Leduc-Righi, or thermal Hall, current in the Majorana quasiparticles localized on the surface of class DIII topological insulators, and that the magnitude of this current can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-22 Michael Stone

We predict a thermodynamic magnon recoil effect for domain wall motions in the presence of temperature gradients. All current thermodynamic theories assert that a magnetic domain wall must move toward the hotter side, based on equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-01 Peng Yan , Yunshan Cao , Jairo Sinova

Studies of non-interacting lattice fermions give an estimate of the size of discretization errors and finite size effects for more interesting problems like finite temperature QCD. We present a calculation of the thermodynamic equation of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 George T. Fleming

We report on the clear evidence of massless Dirac fermions in two-dimensional system based on III-V semiconductors. Using a gated Hall bar made on a three-layer InAs/GaSb/InAs quantum well, we restore the Landau levels fan chart by…

We use Pseudo Quantum Electrodynamics to study massive (2+1)D Dirac systems interacting electromagnetically via a U(1) gauge field in (3+1)D. It was recently found in Ref. [1], that an interaction-induced Quantum Hall Effect (QHE) and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-10 S. H. Kooi , N. Menezes , Van Sérgio Alves , C. Morais Smith

We study the Skyrmion dynamics in thin films under a temperature gradient. Our numerical simulations show that both single and multiple Skyrmions in a crystal move towards the high temperature region, which is contrary to particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Lingyao Kong , Jiadong Zang

We study the dynamics of the statistics of the energy transferred across a point along a quantum chain which is prepared in the inhomogeneous initial state obtained by joining two identical semi-infinite parts thermalized at two different…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-28 Gabriele Perfetto , Andrea Gambassi

Scattering of a 2D Dirac electrons on a rectangular matrix potential barrier is considered using the formalism of spinor transfer matrices. It is shown, in particular, that in the absence of the mass term, the Klein tunneling is not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-22 Mikhail Erementchouk , Pinaki Mazumder , M. A. Khan , Michael N. Leuenberger

It is shown that contrary to a recent claim in the literature, the domain walls made of scalar field are diamagnetic due to presence of massless fermionic modes on the wall. The diamagnetism vanishes at high temperature. Thus the domain…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 M. B. Voloshin

The stability of isothermal dark matter halos has been widely studied before. In this paper, we investigate the stability of non-isothermal fermionic dark matter halos. We show that in the presence of temperature gradient, the force due to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-24 Ahmad Borzou

Thermally activated domain-wall (DW) motion driven by magnetic field and electric current is investigated experimentally in out-of-plane magnetized Pt(Co/Pt)$_3$ multilayers. We directly extract the thermal activation energy barrier for DW…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-21 Satoru Emori , Chinedum K. Umachi , David C. Bono , Geoffrey S. D. Beach

The complete nonperturbative expressions for the high-temperature expansion of the one-loop effective action induced by the charged scalar and the charged Dirac particles both at zero and finite temperatures are derived with account for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-25 I. S. Kalinichenko , P. O. Kazinski

We study the quantum Hall effect in the surface states of topological insulator in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field in the framework of edge states. Motion of Dirac fermions will form descrete Landau levels, among which a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-24 Shun-Qing Shen

We consider a theory of a two-component Dirac fermion localized on a (2+1) dimensional brane coupled to a (3+1) dimensional bulk. Using the fermionic particle-vortex duality, we show that the theory has a strong-weak duality that maps the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Wei-Han Hsiao , Dam Thanh Son

We calculate the tunneling density-of-states (DOS) of a disorder-free two-dimensional interacting electron system with a massless-Dirac band Hamiltonian. The DOS exhibits two main features: i) linear growth at large energies with a slope…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-10 A. Principi , Marco Polini , Reza Asgari , A. H. MacDonald

We report on the observation of photogalvanic effects in epitaxially grown Sb_2Te_3 three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators (TI). We show that asymmetric scattering of Dirac electrons driven back and forth by the terahertz electric…