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Quite recently a novel variety of unconventional fourfold linear band degeneracy points has been discovered in certain condensed-matter systems. Contrary to the standard 3-D Dirac monopoles, these quadruple points referred to as the…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-17 Mengying Hu , Kun Ding , Tong Qiao , Xi Jiang , Qiang Wang , Shining Zhu , Hui Liu

We investigate the emergence of extra Dirac points in the electronic structure of a periodically spaced barrier system, i.e., a superlattice, on single-layer graphene, using a Dirac-type Hamiltonian. Using square barriers allows us to find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Barbier , P. Vasilopoulos , F. M. Peeters

Exceptional points in non-Hermitian systems have recently been shown to possess nontrivial topological properties, and to give rise to many exotic physical phenomena. However, most studies thus far have focused on isolated exceptional…

Optics · Physics 2019-02-21 Hengyun Zhou , Jong Yeon Lee , Shang Liu , Bo Zhen

Quasiparticle excitations beyond Dirac-Weyl-Majorana classification can appear in lattice systems due to the less symmetry constraint compared with Poincar\'e symmetry in high energy physics. In particular, fermions with an integer spin can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Luyang Wang , Dao-Xin Yao

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 bulk Fermi arc is a fundamental non-Hermitian topological feature that connects two exceptional points (EPs), featuring the transition between Hermitian and non-Hermitian worlds. The bulk Fermi arc emerges when losses are introduced…

Band structures of several metamaterials are described by generalized eigenvalue equations where complex bands emerge even if the involved matrices are Hermitian. In this paper, we provide a geometrical understanding of the real-complex…

Optics · Physics 2024-09-04 Takuma Isobe , Tsuneya Yoshida , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

Two-dimensional Dirac semimetal with tilted Dirac cone has recently attracted increasing interest. Tilt of Dirac cone can be realized in a number of materials, including deformed graphene, surface state of topological crystalline insulator,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-21 Zhao-Kun Yang , Jing-Rong Wang , Guo-Zhu Liu

We propose and characterize a new $\mathbb{Z}_2$ class of topological semimetals with a vanishing spin--orbit interaction. The proposed topological semimetals are characterized by the presence of bulk one-dimensional (1D) Dirac Line Nodes…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-03 Youngkuk Kim , Benjamin J. Wieder , C. L. Kane , Andrew M. Rappe

Relativistic quasiparticles emerging from band degeneracies in crystals play crucial roles in the transport and topological properties of materials and metamaterials. Quasiparticles are commonly described by Hermitian Hamiltonians, with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Xinrong Xie , Fei Ma , W. B. Rui , Zhaozhen Dong , Yulin Du , Wentao Xie , Y. X. Zhao , Hongsheng Chen , Fei Gao , Haoran Xue

Topological Dirac semimetals are a class of semimetals that host symmetry-protected Dirac points near the Fermi level, which arise due to a band inversion of the conduction and valence bands. In this work, we study the less explored class…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-02 Heng Gao , Jeremy Strockoz , Mario Frakulla , Jörn W. F. Venderbos , Hongming Weng

We establish non-Hermitian topological mechanics in one dimensional (1D) and two dimensional (2D) lattices consisting of mass points connected by meta-beams that lead to odd elasticity. Extended from the "non-Hermitian skin effect" in 1D…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-19 Di Zhou , Junyi Zhang

The Lorentz-invariance-violating Weyl and Dirac fermions have recently attracted intensive interests as new types of particles beyond high-energy physics, and they demonstrate novel physical phenomena such as angle-dependent chiral anomaly…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-12 Peng-Jie Guo , Huan-Cheng Yang , Kai Liu , Zhong-Yi Lu

We introduce a lattice model for a static and isotropic system of relativistic fermions. An action principle is formulated, which describes a particle-particle interaction of all fermions. The model is designed specifically for a numerical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Felix Finster , Wätzold Plaum

Topological semimetals, representing a new topological phase that lacks a full bandgap in bulk states and exhibiting nontrivial topological orders, recently have been extended to photonic systems, predominantly in photonic crystals and to a…

Type-II Dirac points (DPs), which occur at the intersection of strongly tilted and touching energy bands, exhibit many intriguing physical phenomena fundamentally different from the non-tilted type-I counterparts. Over the past decade,…

Topological insulators are most frequently constructed using lattices with specific degeneracies in their linear spectra, such as Dirac points. For a broad class of lattices, such as honeycomb ones, these points and associated Dirac cones…

Optics · Physics 2024-09-09 Hua Zhong , Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Yongdong Li , Ming Li , Yiqi Zhang

In BaNiS2 a Dirac nodal-line band structure exists within a two-dimensional Ni square lattice system, in which significant electronic correlation effects are anticipated. Using scanning tunneling microscopy, we discover signs of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-28 C. J. Butler , Y. Kohsaka , Y. Yamakawa , M. S. Bahramy , S. Onari , H. Kontani , T. Hanaguri , S. Shamoto

Massless Dirac fermions occur as low-energy modes in several quasi-two-dimensional condensed matter systems such as graphene, the surface of bulk topological insulators, and in layered organic semiconductors. When the rotational symmetry in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-27 Judit Sári , Mark O. Goerbig , Csaba Toke

We theoretically establish that non-Hermitian perturbations induce a topological transformation of point-like Dirac monopoles into extended monopole distributions, characterized by distinct charge configurations emergent from three distinct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 Haiyang Yu , Tao Jiang , Li-Chen Zhao