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We construct a simple model for electrons in a three-dimensional crystal where a combination of short-range hopping and spin-orbit coupling results in nearly flat bands characterized by a non-trivial Z2 topological index. The flat band is…

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Angle dependent magnetoresistance experiments on organic conductors exhibit a wide range of angular oscillations associated with the dimensionality and symmetry of the crystal structure and electron energy dispersion. In particular,…

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Illumination of a two-dimensional system by a twisted light beam is considered in order to find specific effects caused by twisting. Direct interband transitions between the valence and conduction bands are supposed. The generation rates of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 L. S. Braginsky , M. M. Mahmoodian , L. I. Magarill , M. V. Entin

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is expected to partly determine the topologically nontrivial electronic structure of heavy half-Heusler ternary compounds. However, to date, attempts to experimentally observe either the strength of SOC or how it…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-01 Xiaoming Zhang , Zhipeng Hou , Yue Wang , Guizhou Xu , Chenglong Shi , EnKe Liu , Xuekui Xi , Wenhong Wang , Guangheng Wu , Xi-xiang Zhang

Real band topology often appears in systems with space-time inversion symmetry and is characterized by invariants such as the Euler and second Stiefel-Whitney classes. Here, we examine the generic band topology of Bogoliubov de-Gennes (BdG)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-27 Shingo Kobayashi , Manabu Sato , Akira Furusaki

Motivated by the high temperature superconductivity observed in the bilayer nickelate La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ and the spectroscopic evidences of strong electron correlations in this compound, we address the role of its multiorbital electron…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-12-31 Zhiguang Liao , Yiming Wang , Lei Chen , Guijing Duan , Rong Yu , Qimiao Si

From configuration interaction (CI) ab initio calculations, we derive an effective two-orbital extended Hubbard model based on the gerade (g) and ungerade (u) molecular orbitals (MOs) of the charge-transfer molecular conductor (TTM-TTP)I_3…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-01-31 Masahisa Tsuchiizu , Yukiko Omori , Yoshikazu Suzumura , Marie-Laure Bonnet , Vincent Robert

Magnetization is thermodynamically defined as the derivative of the grand potential with respect to a uniform magnetic field. However, a uniform magnetic field makes the kinetic momentum operators noncommuting and Landau-quantizes the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Chunli Huang

Altermagnets recently came into the spotlight as a new class of magnetic materials, arising as a consequence of specific crystal symmetries. They are characterized by a spin-polarized electronic band structure similar to ferromagnets, but…

Nodal links are special configurations of band degeneracies in the momentum space, where nodal line branches encircle each other. In PT symmetric systems, nodal lines can be topologically characterized using the eigenvector frame rotations…

Ultraflat bands have already been detected in twisted bilayer graphene and twisted bilayer transition-metal dichalcogenides, which provide a platform to investigate strong correlations. In this paper, the electronic properties of twisted…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-05 Yonggang Li , Zhen Zhan , Shengjun Yuan

Motivated by recent theoretical and experimental works on orbital magnetization $M_{\mathrm{orb}}$ for the interacting system, we develop a gauge-invariant framework to compute $M_{\mathrm{orb}}$ for correlated phases of magic-angle twisted…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-20 Pinzhuo Li , Kun Jiang , Ziqiang Wang , Jian Kang , Yi Zhang

We determine theoretically the effect of spin-orbit coupling on the magnetic excitation spectrum of itinerant multi-orbital systems, with specific application to iron-based superconductors. Our microscopic model includes a realistic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-07-24 Daniel D. Scherer , Brian M. Andersen

We show that momentum-space tensor monopoles corresponding to nontrivial vector bundle generalizations, known as bundle gerbes, can be realized in bands of three-dimensional topological matter with nontrivial Hopf invariants. We provide a…

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The discovery of topological phases of matter and topological boundary states had tremendous impact on condensed matter physics and photonics, where topological phases are defined via energy bands, giving rise to topological band theory.…

We analyze in detail the superconductivity that arises in an extended Hubbard model describing a multiband system with repulsive interactions. We show that virtual interband processes induce an effective attractive interaction for small…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-07-22 Valentin Crépel , Tommaso Cea , Liang Fu , Francisco Guinea

One of the most significant breakthroughs in physics of the last decade has been the discovery that materials with non-trivial topological properties for electronic, electromagnetic, acoustic and mechanical responses can be designed and…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-21 Xiang Ni , Simon Yves , Alex Krasnok , Andrea Alu

Magnetized charge-neutral graphene supports collective hybrid electronic excitations - polaritons - which have quantum origin. In contrast to polaritons in doped graphene, which arise from intraband electronic transitions, those in…

We theoretically investigate the orbital effects of an in-plane magnetic field on the spectrum of a quantum dot embedded in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG). We derive an effective two-dimensional Hamiltonian where these effects enter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Peter Stano , Chen-Hsuan Hsu , Leon Camenzind , Liuqi Yu , Dominik Zumbühl , Daniel Loss

Topology is being widely adopted to understand and to categorize quantum matter in modern physics. The nexus of topology orders, which engenders distinct quantum phases with benefits to both fundamental research and practical applications…