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We report on numerical study of the Dirac fermions in partially filled N=3 Landau level (LL) in graphene. At half-filling, the equal-time density-density correlation function displays sharp peaks at nonzero wavevectors $\pm {\bf q^{*}}$.…

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We report on the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid (TLL) behavior in fully degenerate 1D Dirac fermions. A ternary van der Waals material Nb$_9$Si$_4$Te$_{18}$ incorporates in-plane NbTe$_2$ chains, which produce a 1D Dirac band crossing Fermi…

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An exact mapping of the tight-binding Hamiltonian for a graphene's nanoribbon under any armchair uniaxial strain into an effective one-dimensional system is presented. As an application, for a periodic modulation we have found a gap opening…

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Transport due to spin-helical massless Dirac fermion surface state is of paramount importance to realize various new physical phenomena in topological insulators, ranging from quantum anomalous Hall effect to Majorana fermions. However, one…

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Van der Waals structures formed by aligning monolayer graphene with insulating layers of hexagonal boron nitride exhibit a moir\'e superlattice that is expected to break sublattice symmetry. Despite an energy gap of several tens of…

Dirac semimetal (DSM) hosts four-fold degenerate isolated band-crossing points with linear dispersion, around which the quasiparticles resemble the relativistic Dirac Fermions. It can be described by a 4 * 4 massless Dirac Hamiltonian which…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-06 Cong Chen , Zefeng Su , Xiaoming Zhang , Ziyu Chen , Xian-Lei Sheng

We study quantum phase transitions in graphene superlattices in external magnetic fields, where a framework is presented to classify multiflavor Dirac fermion critical points describing hopping tuned topological phase transitions of integer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-11 Jian Wang , Luiz H. Santos

Quantum phase transitions driven by electronic correlations are central to understanding the physics of graphene and related two-dimensional materials. A paradigmatic example is the semimetal-to-Mott-insulator transition on the honeycomb…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-10 Fo-Hong Wang , Fanjie Sun , Chenghao He , Xiao Yan Xu

The external controllability of topological superconductors and Majorana fermions would be important both for fundamental and practical interests. Here we predict the electric-field control of Majorana fermions in two-dimensional…

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We study the quantum critical phenomena emerging at the transition from triple-Weyl semimetal to band insulator, which is a topological phase transition described by the change of topological invariant. The critical point realizes a new…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-17 Jing-Rong Wang , Guo-Zhu Liu , Chang-Jin Zhang

Multilayer graphene lattices allow for an additional tunability of the band structure by the strong perpendicular electric field. In particular, the emergence of the new multiple Dirac points in ABA stacked trilayer graphene subject to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 Peng Rao , Maksym Serbyn

The rich and electrostatically tunable phase diagram exhibited by moir\'e materials has made them a suitable platform for hosting single material multi-purpose devices. To engineer such devices, understanding electronic transport and…

Experiments on twisted double bilayer tungsten diselenide have demonstrated that moir'e semiconductors can realize a relativistic Mott transition, i.e., a quantum phase transition from a Dirac semimetal to a correlated insulating state, by…

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The discovery of interaction-driven insulating and superconducting phases in moir\'e van der Waals heterostructures has sparked considerable interest in understanding the novel correlated physics of these systems. While a significant number…

We study the effect of quenched disorder on the semimetal-superconductor quantum phase transition in a model of two-dimensional Dirac semimetal with $N$ flavors of two-component Dirac fermions, using perturbative renormalization group…

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Moir\'e systems have emerged in recent years as a rich platform to study strong correlations. Here, we will discuss a simple, experimentally feasible setup based on periodically strained graphene that reproduces several key aspects of…

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Three-dimensional topological insulators are characterized by the presence of a bandgap in their bulk and gapless Dirac fermions at their surfaces. New physical phenomena originating from the presence of the Dirac fermions are predicted to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-12 B. Sacepe , J. B. Oostinga , J. Li , A. Ubaldini , N. J. G. Couto , E. Giannini , A. F. Morpurgo

An antiferromagnetic semimetal has been recently identified as a new member of topological semimetals that may host three-dimensional symmetry-protected Dirac fermions. A reorientation of the N\'{e}el vector may break the underlying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-19 Youngseok Kim , Kisung Kang , André Schleife , Matthew J. Gilbert

Graphene moir\'e superlattices display electronic flat bands. At integer fillings of these flat bands, energy gaps due to strong electron-electron interactions are generally observed. However, the presence of other correlation-driven phases…

Strain tuning is increasingly being recognized as a clean tuning parameter to induce novel behavior in quantum matter. Motivated by the possibility of straining graphene up to $20$ percent, we investigate novel quantum criticality due to…

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