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The class of topological semimetals comprises a large pool of compounds. Together they provide a wide platform to realize exotic quasiparticles for example Dirac, nodal line Dirac and Weyl fermions. In this letter, we report the Berry…

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Emergent quasiparticles with a Dirac dispersion in condensed matter systems can be described by the Dirac equation for relativistic electrons, in analogy with Dirac particles in high-energy physics. For example, electrons with a Dirac…

Three-dimensional Dirac semimetals, a three-dimensional analogue of graphene, are unusual quantum materials with massless Dirac fermions, which can be further converted to Weyl fermions by breaking time reversal or inversion symmetry.…

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The collective excitation of surface plasmons in a massless Dirac plasma (e.g., graphene) half-space (bounded by air) is investigated using a relativistic quantum fluid model. The unique features of such surface waves are discussed and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 M. Shahmansouri , R. Aboltaman , A. P. Misra

We study the stability of Dirac semimetals with $N$ nodes in three spatial dimensions against strong $1/r$ Coulomb interactions. We particularly study the cases of $N=4$ and $N=16$, where the $N=4$ Dirac semimetal is described by the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-08-25 Akihiko Sekine , Kentaro Nomura

We use tunable, vacuum ultraviolet laser-based angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and density functional theory calculations to study the electronic properties of Dirac semimetal candidate cubic PtBi${}_{2}$. In addition to bulk…

Relativistic massless Weyl and Dirac fermions have isotropic and linear dispersion relations to maintain Poincar\'{e} symmetry, which is the most basic symmetry in high-energy physics. The situation in condensed matter physics is less…

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Topological semimetals, known for their intriguing properties arising from band degeneracies, have garnered significant attention. However, the discovery of a material realization and the detailed characterization of spinless Dirac…

Topological Dirac semimetals (DSMs) exhibit nodal points through which energy bands disperse linearly in three-dimensional (3D) momentum space, a 3D analogue of graphene. The first experimentally confirmed DSMs with a pair of Dirac points…

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The half-quantized Hall conductance is characteristic of quantum systems with parity anomaly. Here we investigate topological and transport properties of a class of parity anomalous semimetals, in which massive Dirac fermions coexist with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Jin-Yu Zou , Bo Fu , Huan-Wen Wang , Zi-Ang Hu , Shun-Qing Shen

We calculate the dynamic polarizability under the random phase approximation for the dice lattice. This two-dimensional system gives rise to massless Dirac fermions with pseudospin-1 in the low-energy quantum excitation spectrum, providing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 John D. Malcolm , Elisabeth J. Nicol

Prototypical three-dimensional (3D) topological Dirac semimetals (DSMs), such as Cd$_3$As$_2$ and Na$_3$Bi, contain electrons that obey a linear momentum-energy dispersion with different Fermi velocities along the three orthogonal momentum…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-26 J. Lim , K. J. A. Ooi , C. Zhang , L. K. Ang , Yee Sin Ang

A wide range of materials, like d-wave superconductors, graphene, and topological insulators, share a fundamental similarity: their low-energy fermionic excitations behave as massless Dirac particles rather than fermions obeying the usual…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-08-27 T. O. Wehling , A. M. Black-Schaffer , A. V. Balatsky

We investigate the topological properties of modified Dirac Hamiltonians with an altermagnetic mass term and reveal a novel mechanism for realizing altermagnetic Weyl semimetals. Unlike the conventional Wilson mass, the altermagnetic mass…

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In this work, we predict a novel band structure for Carbon-Lithium(C4Li) compound using the first-principles method. We show that it exhibits two Dirac points near the Fermi level; one located at W point originating from the nonsymmophic…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-06 Armindo S. Cuamba , Pavan Hosur , Hong-Yan Lu , Lei Hao , C. S. Ting

Fermi arc surface states, a hallmark of topological Dirac semimetals, can host carriers that exhibit unusual dynamics distinct from that of their parent bulk. Here we find that Fermi arc carriers in intrinsic Dirac semimetals possess a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-06 Li-kun Shi , Justin C. W. Song

We present a prediction of the Dirac semimetal (DSM) phase in MgTa2N3 based on first-principles calculations and symmetry analysis. In this material, the Fermi level is located exactly at the Dirac point without additional Fermi surface…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-29 QuanSheng Wu , Christophe Piveteau , Zhida Song , Oleg V. Yazyev

An unbiased zero-temperature auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo method is employed to analyze the nature of the semimetallic phase of the two-dimensional Hubbard model on the honeycomb lattice at half filling. It is shown that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-03 Kazuhiro Seki , Yuichi Otsuka , Seiji Yunoki , Sandro Sorella

We report the observation by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy measurements of a highly anisotropic Dirac-cone structure in high quality SrMnBi2 crystals. We reveal a well-defined sharp quasi-particle, linearly dispersive with…

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Recent high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy experiments have given a reason to believe that pure bismuth is topologically non-trivial semimetal. We derive an analytic theory of surface and size-quantized states of Dirac…

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