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We investigate the extent to which the class of Dirac materials in two-dimensions provides general statements about the behavior of both fermionic and bosonic Dirac quasiparticles in the interacting regime. For both quasiparticle types, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-14 S. Banerjee , D. S. L. Abergel , H. Ågren , G. Aeppli , A. V. Balatsky

The Haldane model is the simplest yet most powerful topological lattice model exhibiting various phases, including the Dirac semimetal phase and the anomalous quantum Hall phase (also known as the Chern insulator). Although considered…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-28 Rujiang Li , Wencai Wang , Xiangyu Kong , Bo Lv , Yongtao Jia , Huibin Tao , Pengfei Li , Ying Liu

Dirac materials have unique transport properties, partly due to the presence of surface states. A new type of Dirac materials, protected by non-symmorphic symmetries was recently proposed by Young and Kane [1]. By breaking of time reversal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-13 P. G. Matveeva , D. N. Aristov , D. Meidan , D. B. Gutman

Dirac fermions have been studied intensively in condensed matter physics in recent years. Many theoretical predictions critically depend on the number of valleys where the Dirac fermions are realized. In this work, we report the discovery…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-05 B. Büttner , C. X. Liu , G. Tkachov , E. G. Novik , C. Brüne , H. Buhmann , E. M. Hankiewicz , P. Recher , B. Trauzettel , S. C. Zhang , L. W. Molenkamp

We present an analytical study of the mode degeneracy in non-Hermitian photonic crystals (PC) with $C_{4v}$ symmetry, from the perspective of the coupled-wave-theory (CWT). The wave couplings and leakages within the non-Hermitian PCs are…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-16 Xuefan Yin , Yong Liang , Liangfu Ni , Zhixin Wang , Chao Peng , Zhengbin Li

Recently, it was established that there exists a direct relation between the non-Hermitian skin effects, -strong dependence of spectra on boundary conditions for non-Hermitian Hamiltonians-, and boundary zero modes for Hermitian topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-10 Nobuyuki Okuma , Masatoshi Sato

We study the tunable quantum Hall effects in a non-Abelian honeycomb optical lattice which is a many-Dirac-points system. We find that the quantum Hall effects present different features as change as relative strengths of several…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-21 Ling Li , Ningning Hao , Guocai Liu , Zhiming Bai , Zai-Dong Li , Shu Chen , Wu-Ming Liu

Altermagnetism, a novel magnetic phase characterized by symmetry-protected, momentum-dependent spin splitting and collinear compensated magnetic moments, has thus far been explored primarily in periodic crystals. In this Letter, we extend…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Yiming Li , Mingxiang Pan , Jun Leng , Yuxiao Chen , Huaqing Huang

Helicity of free massless Dirac fermions is a conserved, Lorentz-invariant quantity at the level of the classical equations of motion. For a generic ensemble consisting of particles and antiparticles, the helical and chiral charges are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-23 Victor E. Ambrus , M. N. Chernodub

We introduce a construction to embed a quasiperiodic lattice of obstacles into a single unit cell of a higher-dimensional space, with periodic boundary conditions. This construction transparently shows the existence of channels in these…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-06-12 Atahualpa S. Kraemer , David P. Sanders

The extraordinary electronic properties of Dirac materials, the two-dimensional partners of Weyl semimetals, arise from the linear crossings in their band structure. When the dispersion around the Dirac points is tilted, the emergence of…

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We study the landscape of solutions of the coherent quantum states in a ring shaped lattice potential in the context of ultracold atoms with an effective positive nonlinearity induced by interatomic interactions. The exact analytical…

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Topologically protected fermionic quasiparticles occur in metals with band degeneracy as a consequence of band structure topology. Here we unveil topological semimetal and metal phases in a variety of non-symmorphic collinear…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-12 Wojciech Brzezicki , Mario Cuoco

We give a simple toy model to study a famous Jahn-Teller type molecule. Finite lifetime due to non-adiabatic coupling and finite temperature effect results in the effective Hamiltonian to be non-Hermitian. This effect pulls a conical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-10-06 J. Li

We study transport across p-n junctions of gapped two-dimensional semi-Dirac materials: nodal semimetals whose energy bands disperse quadratically and linearly along distinct crystal axes. The resulting electronic properties --- relevant to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 K. Saha , R. Nandkishore , S. A. Parameswaran

We study two-dimensional Dirac fermions in a random non-Abelian vector potential by using lattice regularization. We consider U(N) random vector potential for large $N$. The ensemble average with respect to random vector potential is taken…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Ikuo Ichinose

The advent of Dirac materials has made it possible to realize two dimensional gases of relativistic fermions with unprecedented transport properties in condensed matter. Their photoconductive control with ultrafast light pulses is opening…

Semimetals, in which conduction and valence bands touch but do not form Fermi surfaces, have attracted considerable interest for their anomalous properties starting with the discovery of Dirac matter in graphene and other two-dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-11 Dennis Wawrzik , David Lindner , Maria Hermanns , Simon Trebst

Silicene, a sheet of silicon atoms in a honeycomb lattice, was proposed to be a new Dirac-type electron system similar as graphene. We performed scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy studies on the atomic and electronic properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Lan Chen , Cheng-Cheng Liu , Baojie Feng , Xiaoyue He , Peng Cheng , Zijing Ding , Sheng Meng , Yugui Yao , Kehui Wu

Gapless Dirac surface states are protected at the interface of topological and normal band insulators. In a binary superlattice bearing such interfaces, we establish that valley-dependent dimerization of symmetry-unrelated Dirac surface…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-10-31 Xiao Li , Fan Zhang , Qian Niu , Ji Feng